Eleven-year-old Antiguan gospel reggae singer Enoch Thomas teamed up with Jamaican gospel artiste and minister Carlene Davis last December for a reworking of the Christmas standard O Holy Night. Now, ...
In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...
VINELAND - The upbeat rhythm of reggae music immersed visitors into an island atmosphere at the Jamaican festival, but in the eyes of the organizers the event was about much more than celebrating ...
In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...
Say the word reggae — and perhaps the names that most instantly comes to mind are Bob Marley, the Wailers, Jimmy Cliff and Third World musicians who popularized the Jamaican music in the United States ...
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 ...
It's 5 o'clock in Little Rock on a Thursday afternoon, the start of preaching for North Little Rock native Ras Levi. His two-hour message is one of hope and love and unity, channeled through a single ...
Tower City Amphitheater is certainly not Montego Bay, Jamaica — the original site of reggae’s first world-famous Sunsplash festival — but the traveling version of the concert and carnival might just ...
Organisers estimate that almost 1,000 patrons turned up at the Jamaican Canadian Centre to watch performances by acts like ...