Professor and socio-cultural analyst Donna P Hope at Institute of Caribbean Studies at The University of the West Indies, ...

The 10-track Jamaica Gospel Song 2020 album became available on major digital platforms last Friday. The announcement was made by Olivia “Babsy” Grange, entertainment and culture minister ...

To celebrate Jamaica’s Diamond Jubilee, we’ve compiled a list of 60 songs, one song per year, to tell the story of the island’s musical evolution. Some tracks were chosen because they ...

Buffett’s song “Jamaica Mistaica” is a laid-back account of a dramatic near-death experience in which his plane, Hemisphere Dancer, was mistaken by the Jamaican authorities for a drug ...

was banned from radio in Jamaica and the U.K., and his 1997 single "New Immigration Law" sounds like a statement on the current political climate in the U.S. His songs have been sampled by artists ...

A song that reminds you of the place? Grace Jones’s My Jamaican Guy, because it’s a song about rural Jamaica. It’s about her ...

Where Small Island concerned race, class and empire among West Indian immigrants in postwar England, The Long Song is about the bloody death throes of slavery in Jamaica in the 1830s. It's a ...

Hamilton resident Tania Hernandez is one of two Canadians taking part in the Jamaican International Independence Foreign Song competition, which is geared toward Jamaicans living outside Jamaica.

Born in the Rocky Point neighborhood of Clarendon, Jamaica, Scott rose to popularity on the island first before his fame began growing internationally in the '90s. Known for songs like "Lost My ...