Moved by the devastation from Hurricane Melissa, singer Aiesha used the tragedy as inspiration to record the song Jamaica Strong. Since its release, Jamaica Strong, produced by Jjwizzle, has racked up more than one million combined views on Facebook and Instagram.

The Youth View Awards are Jamaican pop culture’s coolest honors, highlighting the most famous and fashionable celebrities on the island. This past February, Vybz Kartel won big at YVA 2016, taking home the award for Favorite Dancehall Artist and beating ...

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did not quite understand the island patois Dekker ...

Reggae is the musical genre most commonly associated with Jamaica and its distant roots are in folk music, while its closer relatives are the ska and rocksteady styles of the 1960s. Ska developed out of a combination of American rhythm and blues and jazz ...

February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers from the Carimer Theater Company, a local performance ...

Jamaica is one of the epicenters of music and culture. With more artists emerging on the scene, it’s important to note the names of the Jamaican music producers who have pushed artists into newer, and dare we say, more uncharted territory. In 2020 ...