If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.
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 ...
Wakanda Forever soundtrack, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that include original songs by African artists.
Ghanaian Reggae and Dancehall musician, Ras Kuuku, has stated that Ghana stands unmatched across the African continent when ...
Intro from KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel: Gregory Isaacs was one of reggae’s great love rockers. His song “Night Nurse” was a worldwide hit. When I was music director, KCRW had a weekly 4-hour reggae show that ...
On the one hand, the Jamaican-born music is penetrating the mainstream like never before. Television shows such as “Going to Extremes” and “Cops” use reggae theme songs. The music also is used in more ...
A revolutionary form of music took the world by storm in the Seventies and dragged a little-known island languishing in the Caribbean along with it. That music was reggae and the island was, of course ...