Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Easter Monday morning, 1964, 14-year-old Marcia Griffiths stepped onto a stage for the very first time. The occasion was an ...

Before Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert (with his vocal group the Maytals) was Jamaica‘s biggest star. Hibbert, who died earlier this month, was a key figure in the invention of reggae (he may well have ...

The reggae community is mourning the loss of an icon. Calvin George Scott — better known as Cocoa Tea” — has died at the age of 65. The Jamaica Gleaner reports how the singer’s wife, Malvia Scott, ...

“I’m not worried about wrinkles, in myself or in women. I find them interesting. I can’t see so well, so sometimes I look in the mirror and I see how I was as a young man.” “I was raised entirely by ...

Correction, Aug. 21: The last show for UB40's North America tour is in North York, Ontario on Saturday, Aug. 24. The University of the Virgin Islands’ Reichhold Center for the Arts presents the 2nd ...

Sometimes it’s amazing the difference only five years can make. Before splitting at the end of the 1990s, IMI was primarily a reggae cover band, at one point with as many as 10 members. The group ...