9 August 1973 Once the underdog of western popular music, now, the time is deemed right for the promotion of Jamaica’s top reggae bands That jangling, syncopated sound of modern Jamaica, known as ...
A revolutionary form of music took the world by storm in the Seventies and dragged a little-known island languishing in the Caribbean along with it. That music was reggae and the island was, of course ...
The opening of The Harder They Come at the Playhouse Theatre returns us with a bang to the moment reggae entered the world. There had been one-off ska hits from Jamaica before. But the 1972 Perry ...
A new reissue marks the 40th anniversary of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” considered one of dancehall’s first digital songs and, with over 500 versions, among the most recycled. By Patricia Meschino In 1984, ...
Jamaican music has travelled a long way since Prince Buster, Millie Small, The Skatalites, and Desmond Dekker first entered the British Hit Parade in the early 1960s. Looking in the rear view mirror ...
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