Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto Story" single was a monster hit in Jamaica; an album of the same name was ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

Think of Etana as reggae's Jill Scott: She's a Jamaican soul singer with a voice that's rich, robust and saturated in the right kind of buoyancy — sage but never preachy. Etana's sophomore album Free ...

Reggae's no different from other struggling genres: Promoters need to invoke the name of a legend, in this case Bob Marley, to attract a good-sized crowd. On a busman's holiday from their own solo ...

After his death aged 73, we look back at a selection of the hundreds of tracks the Sly and Robbie drummer had a hand in making It isn’t Sly Dunbar’s most spectacular performance as a drummer – ...

A variety of things went wrong.” The Globe’s unflattering verdict noted that Cliff was not as enthralling to watch as Marley, ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...