Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance classes in the Bay Area. As she became a student of the craft, Taylor got ...

Grammy® Award-Nominated, chart-topping, global superstar Spice, is lighting up the Summer with the arrival of her highly anticipated third studio album, ‘Mirror 25’ which released on Friday, August 9, ...

Popular dancehall star Dexta Daps (real name Louis Grandison) has been arrested in Jamaica. The singer was reportedly brought in for questioning about alleged gangland activities in the South St.

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 and dancehall recording artist Shaggy says he's excited for the opportunity to perform at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...

Jamaican dancehall deejay Danny English has reportedly died from a diabetes-related illness. He was 54. The musician was best known for the 2002 hit “Party Time” alongside Egg Nog, which sampled the ...

Wycliffe Johnson, 47, a keyboardist and producer known as "Steely" who helped steer Jamaican music for nearly two decades and modernize the dancehall genre, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Patchogue, ...

There are 2.8 million people in Jamaica. To put that in perspective, that’s less people than live in Kansas. And yet, Jamaican food, Jamaican culture, Jamaica beaches, Jamaican music, and, yes, ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Look up “controversy” in the Jamaican dictionary and you might find a photo of Adidjah Palmer, a.k.a. dancehall star Vybz Kartel. The 35-year-old launched his career over a decade ago as a ghostwriter ...

The iconic dancehall musician U-Roy has died at age 78. The DJ and vocalist known as "The Originator" had a massive impact on Jamaican music, and was also viewed as a crucial forebear to rap.