Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On August 6 1962, Jamaica declared independence from colonial Britain. The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold ...
For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...
Next time you turn on the reggae station, take a moment to appreciate that you’re now listening to a piece of “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” As Laura Snapes at the Guardian reports, on ...
You could hear it on mainstream radio in 1978, courtesy of The Police, and if you're in Britain, you can hear it on the airwaves today, in the music of Birmingham-born MC Lady Leshurr: reggae's ...
Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by Alaine, T.O.K and NAVY. By Kyle Denis As September closed out the third quarter of the year, a lot of the biggest Caribbean music news ...
Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...
The youngest son of music icon Bob Marley spoke exclusively to PEOPLE ahead of this year’s Jamrock Reggae Cruise, which he co ...
THE streets of downtown Kingston are set to come alive with the sound of running shoes, reggae and international camaraderie as the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K & 5K returns to Jamaica’s ...
Ras Ajai’s moving thanksgiving service in St Andrew honoured the reggae singer and Bob Marley: One Love actor, whose memorial ...
Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by Chip and DJ Cheem. By Kyle Denis With carnival season coming to a close, it’s time to let go of the summer and ease into the cooler half ...
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that, among the cities around the world with the largest volume of search interest in reggae, Kingston, Jamaica, ranks in the top 20, at number 16. But would ...