If there is ever a Reggae Hall of Fame, Hiroko Okuda at Casio Computer Co. would be a fitting nominee for a monumental contribution she unknowingly made to the popular Jamaican musical genre. Casio ...

Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come: he was given the lead role after entrancing the film’s director Perry Henzell with his mixture of arrogance, optimism and defiance - Everett Collection Inc/Alamy ...

Formerly Jephter McClymount, an upholsterer from Manchester parish, Jamaica, Luciano became reggae’s Anointed One, after his 1995 prayerful hit, “It’s Me Again Jah,” filled a void in the Rastafarian ...

The standard and sound of reggae music have definitely changed over the past 10 years, says Wayne "Unga Barunga" Thompson, well-known producer and one half of the drum-and-bass duo, Notis Heavyweight ...

The Kooking of Black ‘Rice is an extraordinary, image-rich memoir that captures the life and times of Richard Ekinadese ...

It has to be tough to be one of Bob Marley’s sons: You are forever living in the shadow of one of the greatest artists of all time. However, Ky-mani Marley has a special spirit. He seems to be a man ...

Come March next year, that bond will be celebrated on a grand scale as Sri Lanka hosts South Asia’s first-ever three-day reggae music festival, ‘One Love 2026 – A Tribute to Bob Marley’, on the ...

Junior Tshaka believes his music can overcome language and cultural barriers to win over Chinese audiences Swiss reggae musician Junior Tshaka is unfazed by the language or cultural barriers to his ...

For most Jews, the line “By the rivers of Babylon” conjures the poetry of King David’s Psalms. For David Gould, the words come with a Jamaican accent, thanks to the numerous reggae artists who have ...