Go to most any venue or concert in town, and you may find yourself feeling some serious reggae vibes. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and has long been looked at in the U.S. as beach music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ABC News’ Mona Kosar Abdi reports on the impact of reggae and dancehall in music, and the artists who’ve helped shape the Jamaican ...

Recording artist, John Ibegbulem aka President Son, has opined that he’s on a mission to change the narrative. The Imo state-born reggae act said his mission is to revive the dying reggae music in ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the pioneering reggae musician who produced some of the genre’s most groundbreaking albums, died Sunday in a Jamaican hospital. He was 85. The Jamaican Observer first reported ...

Edward “Bunny” Lee — the influential producer who both expanded reggae‘s sound and helped proliferate the genre’s audience worldwide — has died at the age of 79. Trojan Records, which licensed Lee’s ...

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 ...

There was a time when the music of reggae was known best to Jamaicans, and the rest of the world had not yet heard the soulful and sweet sounds of the genre. But legends such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh ...