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

The Kingston, Jamaica native's music speaks to his life journey, while prioritizing messages over melody and rhyme schemes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. June 1977: Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and guitarist Bob Marley (1945 - 1981) in London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

'The Harder They Come' introduced reggae to worldwide audiences and became a cult film classic.

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the pulsating island dance beat to a global audience, has died. He was 81 ...

Reggae emerged in the late 1960s out of Jamaica and was often championed as a music of the oppressed, with lyrics addressing ...

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 ...

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary musician who expanded the popularity of reggae around the world, has died, his family announced Monday on his official Instagram account. He was 81. "It’s with profound ...

Cocoa Tea, the legendary reggae singer from Jamaica, has died at age 65, the Jamaican Gleaner reported. Malvia Scott, the singer’s wife, told the news outlet that her husband died Tuesday morning, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s central bank thinks the country’s economy is doing very well and it is using an instantly recognizable symbol of the island to get this message to the people: reggae ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s central bank thinks the country’s economy is doing very well and it is using an instantly recognizable symbol of the island to get this message to the people: reggae ...