Sammy Johnson remembers doing chores around the house as a kid while his father was blasting music on the CD player. Through the shuffle of his dad’s music, there was always Stevie Wonder. Reminding ...
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 ...
Since the release of his 2017 project Good Life, Collie Buddz has been steadily gearing up to drop his upcoming third studio album Hybrid. This year, Buddz has shared "Legal Now," an ode to legalizing ...
Budding reggae star Lila Iké embraces kindness, care, and warmth on her first new song of 2022, “True Love.” The swooning cut, Iké explained in a statement, came from a freestyle she did about a year ...
Picture yourself lying on a beach and sipping out of a coconut while listening to today’s top hits. That’s pretty much the relaxed feel you get from the 2017 album “Mr. Optimist Blues” by Jonathan Roy ...
It is a strange thing to be a Jamaican artist trying to break into the American music scene in 2017. For many American listeners, their knowledge of reggae begins (and ends) with the name Marley ...
In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such ...