Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ernest Ranglin's innovative guitar style help shape the evolution of ska, reggae and Jamaican jazz. His seven-decade career ...

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

Reggae, rocksteady, and ska legend Jimmy Cliff has died at age 81 after a seizure followed by pneumonia. His wife Latifa Chambers shared the sad news on Instagram: It’s with profound sadness that I ...

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Singer Gwen Stefani has shared how her sibling got her into listening to UK band Madness when they were growing up. The No Doubt singer, who grew up in California, has revealed how she was introduced ...

Colorado has long had a loving relationship with reggae music. By extension, that has led to a number of quality ska bands in the punk-rock scene. With the Wailers coming to Denver’s Gothic Theatre on ...

While contemporary reggae might seem far removed from jazz, it is important to understand how jazz played a major part in its early development. If any country could be identified solely by its music, ...

Orange Street, also known as ‘beat street’, was the birthplace of many reggae, ska and rocksteady artists, as well as the area where these genres were championed – especially in the 1960s and 70s. We ...

At first glance, the title of this article would give anyone the impression that this is about a new event to take place in Jamaica. That of course, could not be further from the truth and although ...