A new documentary series is spotlighting the deep connection between reggae music and local culture in Hawai‘i. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawai‘i is a three-part series from PBS ...

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 ...

— -- Anuhea Jenkins has made a name for herself as an island reggae singer, but she says her career could have taken a completely different direction. When she was growing up, the Hawaii native ...

Part 2: Jawaii steps into the late ’80s and early ’90s, a pivotal time when local musicians began to make reggae their own. They added slack key and ʻukulele. They sang about their own stories, making ...

Since forming in 2009, Hawaiian reggae-rockers The Green have seen their self-titled debut LP as iTunes’ Best Reggae Album of 2010, and their sophomore record “Ways & Means” reach the top of the ...

Sunaina Keonaona Kale is putting reggae music in relation. Originally from Irvine, Kale is Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiian, and holds a doctorate in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara. The ...

“So much of modern Hawaiian music and culture is a direct product of the influence of reggae music and culture,” says Rian Basilio, lead singer and frontman of Rian Basilio and The Roosters. “This is ...

Tracing the popularity and evolution of reggae in Hawaiʻi, from roots to the Jawaiian era. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawaiʻi traces the popularity and evolution of reggae in the ...

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 ...

Award-winning Fijian-Hawaiian recording artist George Brooks Veikoso, better known to fans as Fiji, has died at the age of 55. Born in Fiji on May 10, 1970, Veikoso grew up singing in church. “The ...

Singer-guitarist Walter Aipolani, better known as Bruddah Waltah, died Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 68. In a 40-year-plus career as one of Hawaii’s music superstars, a short ...