Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James “Jimmy Cliff” Chambers, circa 1970 (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who was ...

Reggae's no different from other struggling genres: Promoters need to invoke the name of a legend, in this case Bob Marley, to attract a good-sized crowd. On a busman's holiday from their own solo ...

With roots deep in the mid-1960s Kingston, Jamaica, “rock steady” sound but exhibiting decades of evolution, the reggae giants who played the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday -- Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the ...

You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...

KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...

Long before the Rolling Stones played the Belly Up, internationally famous musicians started popping up at the Solana Beach music showcase in the early ’80s. One of the first was bassist Fully ...

While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...