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...

In 1972 Joseph (Jo-Jo)Hoo-Kim and his three brothers Ernest, Paul and Kenneth joined forces to establish the Channel One Recording Studio...

IT IS TIME TO PROPERLY RECOGNIZE JACKIE MITTOO Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the passing of Jackie Mittoo, a giant of a keyboard...

Every transformation of music in Jamaica, from the early Ska days to the short period of Rock-Steady to Reggae to the later dancehall and...

Much has been made about the growth and impact of Ska as an indigenous music from Jamaica between 1961 and 1966 and along the way this...

In 1970 Bob Andy And Marcia Griffiths put out their rendition of the Nina Simone classic for Harry J Records in Kingston and later...

The Wizard Ivan Chin Somewhere around 1952/53 a group of musicians approached electronics wizard Ivan Chin at his store in Kingston to...

In the mid-1950s almost every youth in Kingston it would appear, wanted to be a singer. As such, it was not uncommon to find bands of...