It is generally accepted that a hero is a person who is admired and acknowledged for their courage, outstanding achievements, and noble...

As Jamaica continues to grapple with its spiraling crime problems, once again the issue of dancehall tunes promoting violence stepped...

He likened himself to a " Stepping Razor” and at times with a ganja spliff dangling from his lips, his M-16 shaped guitar slung across...

The name Joseph Benjamin Higgs is one that is hardly recognizable in Jamaican music circles unless it is stated as “Joe Higgs” in some...

Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay Yellowman From Rags Winston Foster also known as Yellowman , was born at 54 Chisholm Avenue, in...

One of the greatest proponents of what we now know as Roots Reggae is the Jamaican artiste known simply as "The Burning Spear." In order...

Big Youth's Beginnings Big Youth was born in the Rae Town area of Kingston, Jamaica on April 19,1949, and christened Manley Augustus...

THE HONORABLE FREDERICK NATHANIEL "TOOTS" HIBBERT, O. J., posthumously copped the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae album with his...

The late 1950s to early 1960s was a defining period in the history of Jamaica music as the successes of the pioneering Higgs and Wilson,...

Every year more than 33,000 kids graduate from Jamaica's secondary school system and are confronted at that time with the task of...

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....

Prince Buster was born Cecil Bustamante Campbell on May 24, 1938, at Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, and as a youth he attended the...

One of the most influential figures in global music history, and most certainly, one of the most important in Jamaican music and its...

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...

"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...

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...

Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs It was the relationship between Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs that began in 1972, that would provide the most...

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS He was from a family from which some of its members were accustomed to being in the public’s eye. His father Arthur...

John Kenneth Holt was born in the Greenwich Farm area of Kingston, Jamaica, on July 11, 1947 and made his entry into the Jamaican music...

He was born in Somerton district in St James, Jamaica on April 1st, 1948 and his parents christened him James Chambers. He began writing...