Start Me Up' by the Rolling Stones originally started life as a reggae track until it was revamped for the 'Tattoo You' album ...

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

Music legend Bob Marley welcomed at least 11 children throughout his life, and some of them have gone on to make music just ...

International Reggae Day is celebrated on July 1 every year. Here’s how reggae was born in Jamaica, why the day was created ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On August 6 1962, Jamaica declared independence from colonial Britain. The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold ...

Skate punks Lagwagon, hip-hop collective Souls of Mischief, dancehall singer Charly Black, reggae-funk favourites The Black ...

The festival runs until about midnight. Admission is $15. Children 10 and under are admitted free.

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...

You could hear it on mainstream radio in 1978, courtesy of The Police, and if you're in Britain, you can hear it on the airwaves today, in the music of Birmingham-born MC Lady Leshurr: reggae's ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Reggae music, local vendors and a day of community filled downtown Topeka on Saturday, June 27, as people ...