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

From Jamaica’s roots to global beats, reggae fusion is thriving in 2026, blending dancehall, soca, reggaeton, and EDM into irresistible rhythms. Festivals, cross-genre collaborations, and streaming ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — For decades, the sound of Jamaica has been reggae, the infectious, uniquely syncopated music that transformed the small Caribbean island into a cultural powerhouse. But the ...

ATLANTA - The Jamaica National Dance Theater Company is taking its 60th-anniversary tour to the Atlanta Symphony Hall. It will be the company’s first performance since 2005. The performers are happy ...

The ceiling is low and the lights are even lower on "Reggae Revolution" nights at Broad Ripple's Casba nightclub. The scene suits this basement dance party, where attendees slap the ceiling and fire ...

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 ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...

Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliff put the world on notice that something explosive ...