AS I watched the celebrations for Black History Month, Reggae Month, and the birthday of musical icon Bob Marley, I observed a missing factor. If the Rastafari movement is the largest black ...
Rasta and reggae are synonymous as Elvis Presley and rock and roll. That is a fact Eisaku Yamaguchi wants to enforce on his latest compilation album. Titled Reggae Loves Rasta, it is scheduled for ...
PERHAPS the best form of advertisement for the Rastafarian movement has been the infectious, rhythmic musical form known as reggae. With its lilting beat, simple melodies and homespun philosophy, ...
This week, Billboard‘s New Music Latin roundup and playlist — curated by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors — feature fresh new releases from artists such as Prince Royce, Pepe Aguilar, ...
With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and murals of the Lion of ...
In the wee hours of Saturday morning (Feb. 28) — the same day Protoje’s Lost in Time Festival was slated to kick off its third staging — Israel and the United States mounted a coordinated attack on ...
This week’s cover story, “Rasta Redmon,” explores the cultural and musical connections between the indigenous people of Arizona and Jamaican reggae artists, told through the story of Hopi reggae ...
At age 6, while growing up in Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Ester Rada began rejecting the music her Ethiopian refugee parents played at home, as well as the Amharic ...
Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...
How did a kid from West Texas become known as Rasta Stevie? Durango has many colorful characters. Rasta Stevie is certainly one of them. Rasta Stevie moved to Durango in 1996, and right away, started ...