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 ...
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 ...
For many years, Jamaican artistes who live overseas have returned to their country to work with musicians and engineers to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Music with a mission is taking center stage at Hard Rock Live this Friday.The benefit concert, “Stay Strong Jamaica,” is ...
The Youth View Awards are Jamaican pop culture’s coolest honors, highlighting the most famous and fashionable celebrities on the island. This past February, Vybz Kartel won big at YVA 2016, taking ...
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 ...
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, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Teejay flexes his vocal range on “Dip,” a brand new single from his forthcoming ...
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 ...
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