KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...
The International Reggae All Stars are brothers from other countries. Despite having members from different parts of Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela and Ghana, IRAS (pronounced Eye-Rahz, as in ‘Rasta’) ...
MORE than 100 stalwarts of the Jamaican music industry were recognised on Wednesday evening at the Reggae Gold Awards, which celebrated the genre’s 50th anniversary. The National Indoor Sports Centre ...
A look at the years when reggae music was still new, fresh, and exotic to the ears of listeners outside of Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae 1975 – 1976 (Titan Books) is a handsome ...
It is a strange thing to be a Jamaican artist trying to break into the American music scene in 2017. For many American listeners, their knowledge of reggae begins (and ends) with the name Marley ...
As expansive as the title is, "Reggae Golden Jubilee" does not do justice for just how culturally rich this new box set it is. Spread over four CDs, with an accompanying 64-page booklet rife with ...
Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the UK scene, found ...
The first edition of Reggae Gold was released in June 1993. Twenty-five years later, the various artistes compilation is still one of the biggest sellers for independent label VP Records. The 25th ...
KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...