KINGSTON, Jamaica — In 2016, the cover of the Yellow Pages brought Jamaica to a standstill. For the Kingston and St. Andrews editions of the directory, three artists were commissioned to create ...

For many years, Jamaican artistes who live overseas have returned to their country to work with musicians and engineers to ...

Music with a mission is taking center stage at Hard Rock Live this Friday.The benefit concert, “Stay Strong Jamaica,” is ...

Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance classes in the Bay Area. As she became a student of the craft, Taylor got ...

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica have arrested a dancehall artist accused of recording and playing a song they say promotes criminal activity. Marlon Plunkett, best known as “KipRich,” ...

Born Chinsea Lin Lee in Mandeville, Jamaica, Shenseea is the product of a Jamaican mother and a Korean father. As a child, she would go back and forth between St. Elizabeth and Kingston to spend time ...

Wycliffe Johnson, 47, a keyboardist and producer known as "Steely" who helped steer Jamaican music for nearly two decades and modernize the dancehall genre, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Patchogue, ...

As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one of the most important and prolific music scenes in the world, we routinely ignore it ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...