The entertainer won a Grammy Award for best reggae album for "Rebirth," and another Grammy in 1984 for "Cliff Hanger." ...
Grammy-winning reggae icon Jimmy Cliff has died. He was 81. The entertainer, praised for his pioneering work in the reggae ...
In 2010, Cliff became only the second reggae musician, after Bob Marley, to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Jimmy Cliff, who died at the age of 81, represented an era when Jamaican music went from ska and rocksteady to the international ambitions of reggae.
How can a band without most of its original lineup continue to go on? The Skatalites’ beautiful instrumental music preceded and influenced reggae when the band formed in 1964, but that was nearly 60 ...
Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...
Growing up in Southern England, Bob Bell fell in love with Jamaican music as soon as he bought his first recording, in 1963. As far as he was concerned, the explosion of musical creativity in that ...
After peaking with The Harder They Come, Cliff had some downtime in the late ‘70s but did steady session work for decades ...
How much reggae and reggae-related music do you need? If your answer is a hungry, "How much is there?" this four-CD box, available only as a physical set, is for you. Released to celebrate reggae, its ...
The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...