Renowned Jamaican reggae legend Clinton Fearon released the first single, “Sleepwalking,” from his upcoming “Jah is Love” album in early March. Producing potent roots reggae since the late 1960s, ...

For many outside of Jamaica, Third World provided their first exposure to reggae. Courtesy photo One of the longest performing reggae bands of all time, Jamaica’s Third World continues to captivate ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the legendary bass player and one half of the band Sly and Robbie, has died at the age of 68. Shakespeare’s friend, manager and producer Guillaume Bougard confirmed the musician’s ...

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the pioneering reggae musician who produced some of the genre’s most groundbreaking albums, died Sunday in a Jamaican hospital. He was 85. The Jamaican Observer first reported ...

“About seven o’clock this morning I went to wake him up and he wasn’t responding. I called the doctor and that was the news,” she told Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner. “Yesterday was such a good day ...