Test your “J-dar” by briefly considering two modern reggae artists. Nasio Fontaine, the son of a Carib Indian mother and a father of African descent, has long locks and a stirring, world-weary voice.

Blake Shelton turns his chair for a contestant during the Blind Auditions on NBC’s The Voice. Pic credit: ©NBC/Trae Patton Blake Shelton used his personal connection to Gwen Stefani in an attempt to ...

For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. As it is in physics, so it goes in Jamaica—where songs ever oscillate from the joys of Jah to the pleasures of pum-pum. Reggae’s recent ...

Naâman is undoubtedly France's fastest rising reggae star: a ball of energy on stage, with a flow to match. Bob Marley lit the spark when Naâman was just 12, and while he's kept the Jamaican's message ...

Ever since 1978, UB40 has been a steady global music presence preaching the reggae-pop gospel. The United Kingdom natives marked the band’s 45th anniversary in 2023 and has further celebrated this ...

Visually, he is one of the most unlikely reggae singers around but his groovy vocals when combined with some deep romantic or gut-wrenching lyrics command you to stop and listen and wish that you were ...

From downtown Orlando to Pine Hills to Daytona Beach, the people are rocking to reggae. The Jamaica-born, bass-heavy, get-up-and-dance music is on the menu at several area clubs and on two radio ...

VETERAN REGGAE DJ Daddy Ernie has joined a chorus of disapproval over British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir being picked to play legendary singer Bob Marley in a Hollywood biopic. 35-year-old British actor ...

Marlon James, author of "A Brief History of Seven Killings," is the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize. James sat down with Jeffrey Brown at the Miami Book Fair to discuss his story, ...

One of the best-loved musical styles in the world now bears a new distinction. Reggae — the uniquely Jamaican creation born in the late 1960s and made popular globally by artists like Bob Marley and ...

Reggae is at its most revolutionary force when it is prophetic, emancipatory, raw, justice-oriented, anti-colonial, imbued with love and life-affirming. And very much like Hip-Hop in this case, what a ...