John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who was instrumental in taking reggae global, has died. Cliff’s wife, Latifa Chambers, and his family announced the news in a post on the singer’s social media pages, ...

Charismatic reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff, who delivered such iconic songs as "You Can Get It If You Really Want It" and a cover of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now," has died. He was 81.

The first to use the word reggae on a record, he sang in a soulful tone and wrote songs with subtle social commentary, helping bring the sounds of Jamaica to the world. By Ben Sisario Toots Hibbert, ...

Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that “Toast,” by ...

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 ...

Musician, songwriter, and producer Michael Goldwasser has been involved with the international reggae scene for decades, working with artists as diverse as Toots and the Maytals. Jason Mraz, and ...

Where earlier heavy metal could be gloomy and occult, Sodom raised the temperature even more with gory, blasphemous lyrics, ...