Richie BlackfordMar 165 minTOOTS HIBBERT OJ, POSTHUMOUSLY COPS 2021 REGGAE GRAMMYTHE HONORABLE FREDERICK NATHANIEL "TOOTS" HIBBERT, O. J., posthumously copped the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae album with his...
Richie BlackfordMar 71 minSLIM SMITH –THE LOSS OF THIS VOCAL TALENT WAS A JAMAICAN TRAGEDYThe late 1950s to early 1960s was a defining period in the history of Jamaica music as the successes of the pioneering Higgs and Wilson,...
Richie BlackfordMar 31 minTHE LAST SURVIVING WAILER LEAVES THE STAGE. A TRIBUTE TO THE "BUNNY WAILER" OM.Jamaica’s music legacy suffered another huge blow when the Honourable Neville O’Reilly Livingstone, OM, better known as “Bunny Wailer”...
Richie BlackfordMar 22 minKoffee is The Face of Jamaica's ReggaeEvery year more than 33,000 kids graduate from Jamaica's secondary school system and are confronted at that time with the task of...
Richie BlackfordFeb 251 minLeslie Kong was "A Legend in Jamaica's Music History."The legendary Beverley’s Records and the “Beverley’s” record label literally came into existence from a less than chance meeting between...
Richie BlackfordFeb 185 minTribute to Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford (09/21/1942-02/17/2021)Jamaica lost another of its musical sons with the passing on February 17, 2021, of Ewart Beckford OD, better known to Jamaicans as U-Roy....
Richie BlackfordFeb 85 minPrince Buster OD, was THE UNSPOKEN “MUSIC KING” in JAMAICAIn the mid to late 1950s, we already know that Duke Reid along with his sound system “Trojan Sounds” and Clement Dodd with “Sir Coxsone’s...
Richie BlackfordFeb 65 minROBERT NESTA MARLEY, OM- ROOTS OF A LEGENDOne of the most influential figures in global music history, and most certainly, one of the most important in Jamaican music and its...
Richie BlackfordFeb 61 minDuke "The Trojan" ReidThe Trojan" Reid and the significant role played by Treasure Isle Record label in shaping Jamaica's global music dominance. Check out...
Richie BlackfordFeb 44 minTRIBUTE TO THE MEMORIES left us by Dennis Emmanuel Brown, CD. Today is the start of Reggae Month 2021 and it is also the 64th anniversary of the birth of Jamaica's Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis...
Richie BlackfordFeb 43 minJAMAICA REGGAE STORIES- Vere Johns"If you made it on the Vere John's Opportunity Hour, you'll make it anywhere." Jamaica's capital city Kingston in the 1950s, particularly...
Richie BlackfordJan 291 min10 REGGAE SONGS WORTH LISTENING TO This February is Reggae Month and the 14th year of a month-long observance of the music that has placed the island on the global cultural...
Richie BlackfordJan 26 minREGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 2)It was the relationship between Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs that began in 1972, that would provide the most significant starting point in...
Richie BlackfordJan 13 minREGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 1)He was from a family from which some of its members were accustomed to being in the public’s eye. His father Arthur Brown was a...
Richie BlackfordDec 30, 20207 minJohn K. Holt O.D. - A JAMAICAN LEGENDJohn Kenneth Holt was born in the Greenwich Farm area of Kingston, Jamaica, on July 11, 1947 and made his entry into the Jamaican music...
