Without question, Jamaica’s greatest export is reggae music, as embodied by the genre icon Bob Marley. Even if you’ve never had the fortune to visit the Caribbean country, Marley’s influence can be ...

Jamaican dance hall reggae artist Mark Anthony Myrie -- popularly known as Buju Banton -- has been released from a federal prison in Georgia. Jamaican dance hall reggae artist Mark Anthony Myrie -- ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — For decades, the sound of Jamaica has been reggae, the infectious, uniquely syncopated music that transformed the small Caribbean island into a cultural powerhouse. But the ...

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 ...

ATLANTA - The Jamaica National Dance Theater Company is taking its 60th-anniversary tour to the Atlanta Symphony Hall. It will be the company’s first performance since 2005. The performers are happy ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the pulsating island dance beat to a global audience, has died. He was 81 ...

Jamaican dance hall reggae star Mark Anthony Myrie – popularly known as Buju Banton – has been released from a federal prison in Georgia. The federal Bureau of Prisons updated its inmate locator to ...