It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...
As the sun beat down, Luana Halili, 33, of North Bellmore, rocked steadily to the calypso beat of the reggae tune drifting through the hilly, open lawns of the Vanderbilt Museum. “It’s a beautiful day ...
For years, the reggae soundtrack has been synonymous to untidy people sitting on slim benches, outside a liquor shop, chewing khat, smoking bhang and occasionally nodding. However, this music genre ...
If there is ever a Reggae Hall of Fame, Hiroko Okuda at Casio Computer Co. would be a fitting nominee for a monumental contribution she unknowingly made to the popular Jamaican musical genre. Casio ...
As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. By Clay Risen Sly Dunbar, who as the drumming half of the ...
The bass-heavy sound of Jamaica had a huge cultural and social impact on London and beyond, as a new exhibition shows Music producer Mad Professor has been mixing dub reggae in his Croydon studio for ...