Like millions of other Jamaicans around the world, Aiesha Barrett watched Hurricane Melissa tear across the island she calls ...
One of the acts scheduled to perform on the December 12 Jamaica Strong concert, Inner Circle, will use the occasion to debut ...
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Reggae legend Bob Marley's "One Love" topped a list of Jamaica's 100 best songs over 50 years that was unveiled on Tuesday by a panel of musicians and cultural officials associated with the University ...
After decades of “Brap brap brap!” heard throughout the lyrics of some of our favorite Jamaican songs, the country’s broadcasting regulator has made the decision to ban all music and television that ...
An itinerant ambassador who introduced the music and culture of his island to audiences across the world at a time when ...
In a parking lot in Port Antonio, leaving the Maroon Conference, loitering with a woman from the States and a woman from Jamaica. My people, I was saying, are from here, Portland Parish; I’d been to ...
The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...
New York – Jamaican artist Flourgon has sued Miley Cyrus and Sony Music for the singer’s 2013 song, “We Can’t Stop.” The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York City, claims Cyrus’ megahit borrows from ...
Miley Cyrus has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that her 2013 tune “We Can’t Stop” rips off an earlier song by a Jamaican composer. In his suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, ...