A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...
That reggae has become an international force is one of the more unlikely musical happenings of the last half-century.The music came not only from the tiny, Third World island of Jamaica, whose ...
In 1969, upstart reggae singer Bob Marley introduced a friend from his hometown to one of Jamaica's top record producers. The friend's name was Winston Rodney, but the world would soon know him as ...
Burning Spear, the legendary Jamaican roots-reggae, singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician, and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists, will perform live at the TD Pavilion at ...
Two-time Grammy winner Burning Spear, the renowned Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, is coming to the Vilar Performing Arts Center on June 5 to spread his message of love and peace through ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “All in the same boat, rockin’ on the same rock,” Bob Marley sang on the Wailers’ 1971 classic “Don’t Rock My Boat.” Produced by ...
The past two years have been tough ones for fans of classic reggae. Pioneers Bunny Wailer, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Toots Hibbert, and U-Roy all passed away, leaving few actively performing artists from ...
Burning Spear has never taken credit for inventing roots-reggae music. Yet today he’s considered the archetype for that subgenre, which saw its heyday in the mid- to late ’70s. In fact, it was Burning ...