Drummer who with the bassist Robbie Shakespeare provided the rhythm section for Peter Tosh, Grace Jones and Black Uhuru ...

The Wailing Souls are part of the small surviving group of reggae and roots originators still musically active today. The legendary group dates back to the late 1960s. The Wailing Souls members got ...

A music icon – drummer, producer and one half of the greatest rhythm sections of all time, Sly Dunbar – has died aged 73.

For many outside of Jamaica, Third World provided their first exposure to reggae. Courtesy photo One of the longest performing reggae bands of all time, Jamaica’s Third World continues to captivate ...

Garth Dennis, the Jamaican music legend credited among the architects of “electro reggae,” a fusion of reggae and electronic music conveyed by his world-renowned band Black Uhuru, has died. He was 72.

Legendary Jamaican musician Stephen 'Cat' Coore, most widely known for his membership of the band, Third World, died suddenly on Sunday evening, ...

Coore expanded the language of reggae, weaving roots with jazz, soul, funk, classical discipline and global sounds, while ...

Cat Coore initially played for the band Inner Circle ...

Late last week, some of Jamaica’s most storied musicians — including former Wailers guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith and DJ U Brown — were gathered at Anchor, a recording studio in Kingston. But their ...

Jimmy Cliff, the reggae music icon and actor known for his lead role in the 1972 Jamaican crime/drama film The Harder They Come, has died from a seizure and pneumonia, according to his family. He was ...

Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who’s unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his native Jamaica part of popular culture across the globe, has died at ...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of the pioneering reggae outfit Toots and the Maytals and one of the greatest voices in popular music, died Friday evening at the age of 77. “It is with the ...