Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of the pioneering reggae outfit Toots and the Maytals and one of the greatest voices in popular music, died Friday evening at the age of 77. “It is with the ...
Lee “Scratch” Perry, the pioneering reggae musician who produced some of the genre’s most groundbreaking albums, died Sunday in a Jamaican hospital. He was 85. The Jamaican Observer first reported ...
(CNN) — Jimmy Cliff, the smooth-voiced singer who helped popularize the reggae genre, has died at age 81, his wife announced on Instagram on Monday. “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my ...
Recording artist, John Ibegbulem aka President Son, has opined that he’s on a mission to change the narrative. The Imo state-born reggae act said his mission is to revive the dying reggae music in ...
Edward “Bunny” Lee — the influential producer who both expanded reggae‘s sound and helped proliferate the genre’s audience worldwide — has died at the age of 79. Trojan Records, which licensed Lee’s ...
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, one of the pioneers of reggae, a genre he is credited with naming, has died at age 77. He died Friday night at University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
There was a time when the music of reggae was known best to Jamaicans, and the rest of the world had not yet heard the soulful and sweet sounds of the genre. But legends such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh ...
(CNN) — Jimmy Cliff, the smooth-voiced singer who helped popularize the reggae genre, has died at age 81, his wife announced on Instagram on Monday. (CNN) — Jimmy Cliff, the smooth-voiced singer who ...