Dancehall and reggae riddims filled the airwaves in the ’90s thanks to singers like Diana King, whose wildly popular music was featured in films like Bad Boys and My Best Friend’s Wedding, and “Queen ...

The parish of St Ann has produced several well-known artistes over the years. Reggae king Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Busy Signal, Romain Virgo, Chezidek, Grammy-winner Shabba Ranks, Perfect and ...

When Bob Marley died in 1981, it seemed he took reggae with him. No other artist or group captured the world`s attention in quite the same way, and the music that some partisans predicted would ...

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...

As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one of the most important and prolific music scenes in the world, we routinely ignore it ...

Out now, it is the sequel to Marvin Sparks’ first book, which looked at the global expansion of dancehall in the 90s A new book by Marvin Sparks tracing the history and culture of reggae and dancehall ...

Captain Barkey, 50, a veteran Jamaican dancehall deejay, was fatally shot in front of a Bronx motel in the early morning hours on Saturday Oct. 13. Barkey was best known for the mid-90s No. 1 danceh… ...

During last summer’s ’90s Dancehall US Tour, Keton Cole of Solja Life Records thought it would be a good idea for two of its acts to do a ‘weed song’. That single, Marijuana Obsession by Sly Rankin ...