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 ...
In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...
For the sixth consecutive year, Marley’s Legend compilation album registers top sales in the genre, while no releases from 2025 are present. Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend first released in 1984 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Professor Mike Alleyne Ph.D is an award-winning author and editor. Forty-one years after it was first released, Marley’s Legend ...
Thanks to Beyoncé, country styles have been on everyone’s mind lately — from western fashion, boots and hats, to musical mash-ups. Taking on that challenge is Gramps Morgan. The Grammy-winning singer ...
The Harder They Come, the film that thrust both Jamaican cinema and reggae music into the global spotlight, arrives today on Blu-ray for the first time. To celebrate the rerelease, Rolling Stone spoke ...
For the first time in her decades-long career, veteran deejay Sister Nancy makes her début on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, thanks to her 1982 album One, Two, which enters at #3. One, Two was ...
Recording artiste Keznamdi won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album on Sunday for his 13-track set, Blxxd and Fyah. This was Keznamdi’s first Grammy nomination, the second for both Vybz Kartel and ...