Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Easter Monday morning, 1964, 14-year-old Marcia Griffiths stepped onto a stage for the very first time. The occasion was an ...

It originated on a small Carribean island and grew to become a global phenomenon recognised as a cultural institution by ...

Start Me Up' by the Rolling Stones originally started life as a reggae track until it was revamped for the 'Tattoo You' album.

Reggae Sumfest will pay tribute to the late reggae artiste Fantan Mojah during A Taste of Reggae Sumfest on Saturday, July 18 ...

Pop music in the 21st century has been flush with precise re-creations of '60s and '70s American R&B — think of Sharon Jones, Adele, Raphael Saadiq and the late Amy Winehouse. Meanwhile, I've been ...

Quebec reggae fans have had few occasions to celebrate in recent years. The last edition of Montreal’s now defunct reggae festival took place in 2017. Since then, there’s been the occasional one-off ...

Before Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert (with his vocal group the Maytals) was Jamaica‘s biggest star. Hibbert, who died earlier this month, was a key figure in the invention of reggae (he may well have ...

Fellow artistes, promoters, and fans continue to pay tribute to conscious reggae singer Fantan Mojah, whose music reached far ...

The reggae community is mourning the loss of an icon. Calvin George Scott — better known as Cocoa Tea” — has died at the age of 65. The Jamaica Gleaner reports how the singer’s wife, Malvia Scott, ...

“I’m not worried about wrinkles, in myself or in women. I find them interesting. I can’t see so well, so sometimes I look in the mirror and I see how I was as a young man.” “I was raised entirely by ...

Toronto, July 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harbourfront Centre will host the official launch of Reggae Month Canada during Island Soul, its annual celebration of Caribbean arts, culture and community ...

Sometimes it’s amazing the difference only five years can make. Before splitting at the end of the 1990s, IMI was primarily a reggae cover band, at one point with as many as 10 members. The group ...