Reggae legend Bob Marley's "One Love" topped a list of Jamaica's 100 best songs over 50 years that was unveiled on Tuesday by a panel of musicians and cultural officials associated with the University ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "It's our aim to bring a range of new Jamaican music to the masses," says Sshh.

Jamaican media personality and cultural expert Fae Ellington is condemning several dancehall artistes for what she described ...

Few reggae artistes can boast a catalogue as rich and enduring as that of Tony Rebel. From roots anthems to socially conscious messages, his music has long been woven into the fabric of Jamaica’s ...

In a parking lot in Port Antonio, leaving the Maroon Conference, loitering with a woman from the States and a woman from Jamaica. My people, I was saying, are from here, Portland Parish; I’d been to ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...

Any child of the '90s recalls the timeless soundtrack of Cool Runnings, which was loosely (very loosely) based on the Jamaican bobsled team's debut in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. With a new ...

Kenyans have been sharing videos of the former prime minister, Raila Odinga, after the public announcement of his death Footage of Raila singing his favourite song, Jamaican Farewell by Harry ...

Miley Cyrus has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that her 2013 tune “We Can’t Stop” rips off an earlier song by a Jamaican composer. In his suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, ...