Grame Goodall was a key figure in the history of Jamaican music, founding Island Records in 1959 and engineering some of the country's most well-known music. × Skip to main content ...

Jazz was also a popular music form in Jamaica, and many well-known jazz musicians hailed from Jamaica such as Joe Harriott, Ernest Ranglin and Monty Alexander. In the late 1950s, ...

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64. He died after collapsing from a heart attack in his ...

Music is one of the best windows into a culture—and nowhere is that more evident than Jamaica.The Caribbean country is known for its sound above all else, having gifted the globe with six genres ...

W hen it comes to Jamaican music, Patricia Chin has heard it all. The 83-year-old, known as “Miss Pat”, has been a fixture of the island’s music industry for over 60 years. Today she runs VP ...

McGregor, better known by his artist name Di Genius, sees it as a ban on free speech, and that the Jamaican government would be better off focusing its attention on issues that lead to conditions ...

On the night of October 12, 2023, Jamaican musician and educator Michael “Ibo” Cooper, who played a seminal role in the development of reggae music, helping to create the sunny, accessible, ...