With Reggae Month three weeks away, Ewan Simpson, chairman of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA), says a full ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

For the sixth consecutive year, Marley’s Legend compilation album registers top sales in the genre, while no releases from 2025 are present. Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend first released in 1984 ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

Sunaina Keonaona Kale grew up in California, loving Hawaiian music. Years before she earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara, Kale convinced her mom to buy her the complete ...

When Switzerland-based reggae artiste Cookie the Herbalist collaborated with legendary Jamaican producer Lee “Scratch” Perry ...

Former Maui Radio DJ Guy Amico (from left), Marty Dread and former Q103 DJ Shaggy Jenkins are starting a new reggae radio station for world broadcast. Courtesy photo The world has a new online reggae ...

On a Wednesday night in the autumn of 1985, UB40 played a concert in New Haven, Connecticut. After the show, Brett Kavanaugh, an undergraduate at Yale at the time, retired to a local bar, beloved for ...

As we approach 2026, let’s take a look back at 2025 and honor some of our Caribbean artists who have passed away during the ...

The reggae singer won a Grammy in 2016 with his family group Morgan Heritage Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...

BOB MARLEY: (Singing) One love... DEREK SCOTT: This is a very historic day. KELLY: That is Derek Scott. He's a spokesperson for the Jamaican Embassy here in D.C. SCOTT: For us as a little country to ...