Rastafari is my doctrine and reggae is my tool, writes Tony Randon in his first blog, where he revea By Tony Randon Are you a Rastaman? This question was asked me one day by a woman who came into my ...
It is a genre that has inspired decades of music, and yet British reggae is too often overlooked. A new documentary from BBC4, Reggae Britannia, seeks to put that right, as it takes us through the ...
Nineteen Hundred and seventy six was a tumultuous period in Jamaica. The country sat on a proverbial powder keg as Prime Minister Michael Manley’s mantra of democratic socialism inspired a generation ...
Music for warriors, revolutionaries and rebels. That’s how T&T-born reggae act Jah Defender (Ricardo Mills) describes his new EP Jah Movements. Defender, whose 2013 debut album Rastaman Rise, released ...
(Jamaica Observer) Nineteen Hundred and seventy six was a tumultuous period in Jamaica. The country sat on a proverbial powder keg as Prime Minister Michael Manley’s mantra of democratic socialism ...
The scene was electric at the B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square as Bunny Wailer, 69 years old, took the stage before a capacity crowd. Born Neville Livingston, Bunny is the last living original ...
Since the 1930s, Jamaica’s north coast hotels have nurtured the talent of many Jamaican artistes and musicians. Roots singer Dinho da Rastaman cut his teeth on some of those stages which prepared him ...