Magnum Tonic Wine concluded its Ultimate Dancehall Experience promotion with an authentic experience at Boom Sundays for the ...

New York-based podcaster-entrepreneur Kerry Ann Brown believes that dancehall's resurgence as a live music form in the Big ...

K-Cut and Sir Scratch from the group and Large Professor (formerly of the group) appear in Duke’s film among other greats, ...

The dancehall singles that make it past these obstacles in the U.S. generally start on New York’s Hot 97 radio — “the biggest supporter of Caribbean music in America,” explains Julian ...

Jamaica's new music revolution That beat you can't get out of your head is reggae -- think Sean Paul, not Marley -- and it's inspiring everyone from Missy to Beyonce to No Doubt.

Mr. Vegas hears Jamaican dancehall music in plenty of mainstream hits, from Rihanna's "Work" to Justin Bieber's "Sorry." But Vegas said he wants musicians who specialize in dancehall to share the ...

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 ...

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.

Look up “controversy” in the Jamaican dictionary and you might find a photo of Adidjah Palmer, a.k.a. dancehall star Vybz Kartel. The 35-year-old launched his career over a decade ago as a ...

U-Roy, Jamaican Vocalist Who Defined Dancehall And Presaged Hip-Hop, Dies At 78 Influenced by jazz, the Kingston-born vocalist revolutionized the art of occupying a space with his words. "Before U ...

Courtesy Everett Collection. In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film ...