Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

Reggae didn't die with Bob Marley. Give Frederick "Toots" Hibbert five minutes onstage and you'll believe that. Hibbert, who will play the Houston International Festival on Sunday, performs with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. February is widely acknowledged as Black History Month, but did you know it is also Reggae Month? Every year since 1926, Black ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon at West End Johnnies in downtown Boston. A band is squeezed onto a little stage beneath a flat screen TV. Lead singer Errol Strength croons Bob Marley's "Is This Love" as he ...

Reggae's development in Jamaica has much in common with the rise of post-war jazz, and it parallels the surge of R&B in the U.S. Under British rule until 1962, Jamaicans in the '50s were increasingly ...

Sly Dunbar, one-half of legendary duo Sly & Robbie, who helped launch several careers via Taxi Records and is widely considered among the most influential drummers in the history of reggae, has died.

Every year since 1926, Black History Month has been honored in February — but did you know that since 2008, February has also been officially designated Reggae Month in Jamaica? The history and ...