If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.

In 1977, Seydou Kone was studying English at Columbia University and working four jobs. He was 5,000 miles from his home in West Africa, but Kone was ecstatic to be in a country that spawned Woodstock ...

Billboard predicts the Grammy winners in the global music field, including best reggae album and best African music performance. By Kyle Denis In 2023, the Recording Academy announced the launch of a ...

It's Thursday night in downtown Johannesburg and some 500 people are packed into Bassline, a warehouse-like club in a hipster-friendly neighborhood. They're here for South Africa's longest-running ...

ITALY, March 30, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / -- Erick Kristal, the lion of African reggae, has released his latest powerful music video, "Wake Up Africa." This music video sheds light on the ...

Reggae artist Lucky Dube has been a star in his native South Africa since the mid-1980s. Now Dube (pronounced “doo-bay”) has begun to make his mark in the United States. His latest album, House of ...

The Kingston-born singer is visiting iconic venues on both coasts. Get all the details.

The concept of "Africa rising" has long lacked significance, and the idea of an African renaissance often appears as a lofty slogan without practical manifestation. However, recent political events in ...

Lucky Dube, the best-selling South African reggae singer of all time, was murdered during a carjacking in 2007. Now his 27-year-old daughter,... In South Africa, A Reggae Legacy Lives On It's Thursday ...