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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae legend Bob Marley’s “One Love” topped a list of Jamaica’s 100 best songs over 50 years that was unveiled on Tuesday by a panel of musicians and cultural ...
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 ...
My Jamaican friend seized on the word and agreed with me and Patsy Cline about wandering, and she sang—as complement to my being “next of kin to the wayward wind”—a song she’d learnt as ...
Coolface stops my ride, a producer for Jamaican music television, and asks her to personally deliver "Cool Fusion" to Buju Banton, a reggae crowd pleaser who hasn't yet agreed to make a song for it.
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 ...
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 ...
SOCHI, Russia (AP) Jamaican bobsled fans have a new tune for their country's improbable run Sunday night. The country's main tourism agency is touting ''The Bobsled Song,'' a tune designed to sync ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The 2020 Jamaica Festival Song Album titled ‘Jamaica Festival 2020 Song Competition’ is now listed at number 13 on the Apple Music Reggae Album Chart. “This is great ...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Kiprich, whose given name is Marlon Plunkett, has been charged by the police over a song that they say endorses gang violence and pays tribute to alleged One Or ...
is the soundtrack to the seven days he spent in Jamaica pre-pandemic. The seven-song set is clearly inspired by tropical, dancehall and reggae beats that he deftly fuses with his identifiable ...