In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

I just feel that Jamaican culture and music are at its peak. It’s been so influential for years and decades. With the type of artists that I sign — Lila [Iké] and Sevana — they’re both very driven in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Reggae legends the Wailers are back with a mix of old and young blood and a new ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Wailers is a name spoken with reverence -- in reggae and, in fact, in all of popular music. Most know it as the two words that come after “Bob Marley and...,” and the ...

This year’s Grammys have a chance to make history, albeit in a way that might get missed by most TV viewers watching music’s biggest night at home. For the first time in its 39-year existence, the ...

My relationship with music is deep and personal. It has been the source of both extreme hardship and joy. Like many artists, creating music helps me to cope with challenges I face in this world. It’s ...

Toots Hibbert, the charismatic reggae singer and bandleader who helped transform the groove-driven sound of 1960s Jamaica into an international musical movement, has died. He was 77. Hibbert, frontman ...

The man who gave reggae its name and helped make it an international movement, Toots Hibbert, born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, has died at age 77. Hibbert, one of the genre's founders and most ...

A fourth night will be added to the festival when it takes place in the spring. Fans cheer at the 2019 Reggae Rise Up Festival in St. Petersburg. The 2020 event was postponed from March until October, ...

Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the lead singer and songwriter of Toots and the Maytals and one of reggae's foundational figures, died Friday in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 77. His death was announced on the ...