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. Within ...

Reggae is the musical genre most commonly associated with Jamaica and its distant roots are in folk music, while its closer relatives are the ska and rocksteady styles of the 1960s. Ska developed out ...

In the late 1960s, a white Jamaican movie producer had a decision to make. The late Perry Henzell wanted to tell a story about his country that would put a big spotlight, not on the lush tourist image ...

Bandleader, producer, studio owner, and Jamaican musical icon Byron Lee passed away November 4 after a battle with cancer, according to a post on his website. [Via Tiny Mix Tapes.] He was 73. Lee ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife, Mola Ali, said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica, in ...

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, the Jamaican musician who, as Prince Buster, pioneered ska and rocksteady music, died Thursday, according to the Jamaican Observer. Campbell’s son confirmed his death to the ...