If there is ever a Reggae Hall of Fame, Hiroko Okuda at Casio Computer Co. would be a fitting nominee for a monumental contribution she unknowingly made to the popular Jamaican musical genre. Casio ...

Formerly Jephter McClymount, an upholsterer from Manchester parish, Jamaica, Luciano became reggae’s Anointed One, after his 1995 prayerful hit, “It’s Me Again Jah,” filled a void in the Rastafarian ...

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A VETERAN American musician is teaching the rudiments of reggae rhythm guitar through online company Guitar Control. Jimmy Dillon, an accomplished guitarist, says his lessons focus on a basic pattern ...

Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come: he was given the lead role after entrancing the film’s director Perry Henzell with his mixture of arrogance, optimism and defiance - Everett Collection Inc/Alamy ...

“I am expecting to have a good time with the receptive audience, which is always there,” said Hill. Performing with Culture, Saturday night will be Yellowman, a reggae phenomena nicknamed for his ...

The summer song -- think Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” circa ’02 or Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love” from last year -- is a tradition: It stows two months of hot, hazy vitality in one exuberant party anthem. But ...