August 15, 2023 (Washington, DC) - The media launch for the Second annual DC World Reggae Festival will take place on Friday August 19, 2022 and will be addressed by Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks.
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MONTEGO BAY, July 30, 2022 - It is referred to as "Cultural Appropriation," and seems to be an emerging academic terminology in Europe, closely linked to the concepts of "cancel...
WASHINGTON DC, July 20, 2022 - Days after the conclusion of Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay, Washington DC is slated to come alive with the staging of the second annual...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 25, 2022 - One of Jamaica’s first singing sensations, Jimmy Tucker, died on Tuesday at the age of eighty, at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia in the...
If there is one musician as commonly associated as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with the West African musical movements Afrobeat and Afrobeats (never mind Afro-Blues and Afro-Soul), this is the preserve of...
MONTEGO BAY, April 5, 2022 - Jamaica Jazz and Blues Promoter Walter Elmore says the Grammy Award for best Reggae Album won on Sunday night by almost all white Reggae...
Another Grammy Awards season and there is a growing list of African nominees. For African music enthusiasts, it is heartwarming that recognition is being accorded to practitioners in the Afrobeats...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 30, 2022 - The People’s National Party has expressed regret at the passing of Donald “Tabby Diamond” Shaw, who died on Tuesday March 29, 2022, in a...
MONTEGO BAY, March 9, 2022 - 43 year old Reggae singer Siccaturie Alcock, who goes by the stage name ‘Jah Cure’ could be facing a lengthy stay behind bars, as...
Many pundits trace the genesis of Modern Jamaican music to the late 1950s when Theophilous Beckford voiced the single "Easy Snappin" for the fledgling mogul, Clement Dodd, who would become...
NEW YORK, NY, March 4, 2022 - : Jamaican reggae icon Bishop Denroy Morgan, 76, has died. The hitmaker who topped the international charts in 1981 with his smash single...
KINGSTON, February 16, 2022 - One of Jamaica’s most colourful journalist, columnist, radio talk show host Winston "Babatunde '' Witter has died. He was 64.
NEW YORK, NY, January 2022 - The 2022 edition and the 40th anniversary of the long-running International Reggae and World Music Awards, (IRAWMA) initially planned to be held on May...
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