'The Harder They Come' introduced reggae to worldwide audiences and became a cult film classic.

Brinsley Forde as Blue in Franco Rosso’s Babylon (courtesy of Kino Lorber Repertory/Seventy-Seven) Jah! Rastafari! This chant, repeated like a mantra, is a cry of faith and defiance. In the film ...

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Bongo Boy Music/Madacy Label Group will on May 15 release "Reggae Rocks - The Tide Is High," the first of a planned six-disc compilation series of reggae artists covering classic rock and pop songs… ...

Queens-based reggae independent VP Records has relaunched U.K. reggae label Blood and Fire, known primarily for its quality reissues of Jamaican recordings from the 1970s and '80s, many of which were… ...

Exactly 40 years ago, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was introduced to the wide world as the hard-scrabble country boy Ivan Martin in the Jamaican crime film “The Harder They Come.” The movie (now revered ...

Today, Campbell is known worldwide as the unmistakable voice behind UB40, the British reggae band that helped bring the genre ...

The honey-voiced Jamaican singer and songwriter John Holt, who has died aged 67, was responsible for some of the greatest moments in reggae during a career that spanned more than 50 years. Yet he is ...

Reggae music has been around in various incarnations for several decades, originally arising out of the vibrant ska movement of Jamaica and permutating into several micro-genres including roots, dub, ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

A diverse cast of artists reimagined nine-holiday classics, with Christopher Martin working his magic on the joyous “This Christmas,” Shuga dazzling on Mariah Carey's seasonal blockbuster “All I Want ...