On Oct. 28, nearly 40 years after Hurricane Gilbert, Hurricane Melissa marked the strongest storm to strike Jamaica in the ...

No small country has packed a musical punch like Jamaica has. From Bob Marley to Buju Banton, here are its standout records ...

A man waving a Jamaican flag from the audience reacts to the music during the 19th annual Best of the Best International Music Festival at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, Sunday, May 25, 2025. The ...

Boasting eight top 10 projects on the Reggae Albums chart and three Billboard Hot 100 hits - "Wonderful World" (No. 25), "Clearly" (No. 18) and 1970's "Come Into My Life" (No. 89) - Jimmy Cliff has ...

Jimmy Cliff, who famously sang about the "many rivers" we all must cross, has died after suffering a seizure and pneumonia, his family say.

Music is one of the best windows into a culture—and nowhere is that more evident than Jamaica. The Caribbean country is known for its sound above all else, having gifted the globe with six genres of ...

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

Cliff, who died Nov. 24 of pneumonia at his home in Kingston at age 81, soon had a cult following that spread far beyond West ...