Former Maui Radio DJ Guy Amico (from left), Marty Dread and former Q103 DJ Shaggy Jenkins are starting a new reggae radio station for world broadcast. Courtesy photo The world has a new online reggae ...
NEW YORK - Gil Bailey was a legendary broadcaster on Caribbean radio for more than half a century. For many Caribbean-American New Yorkers he was the voice they listened to for news, culture and music ...
Though reggae was en vogue in Europe and New York in 1979, Clint O’Neil had to convince radio officials at WLRN, FM 91.3, of the music’s popularity so they would put his Sounds of the Caribbean ...
PEMBROKE PINES, Florida — Reggae Global Radio (RGR), an internet station, is scheduled to make its debut today. General Manager Marlon Burrell, says it will have an international cast with broad ...
Broadcast legend Gil Bailey, who brought Caribbean music to the tri-state area and whose career spanned 50 years at four different local radio stations, died of COVID-19 earlier this week at the age ...
Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos, violins, ...
Veteran reggae broadcaster David Rodigan is to join BBC Radio 1Xtra, just weeks after he quit an award-winning show on a commercial station after 20 years. The 61-year-old, who is the UK's foremost ...
As Jamaican immigrants made their way to Canada in the 1960s and '70s, they brought their culture with them, starting radio stations, record labels and concert series. A fledgling reggae movement ...
For a quarter of a century, he has been top dog in the ganja-scented, bass-heavy atmosphere of Britain's reggae dance-halls, where mighty sound-systems battle until dawn to bring the crowd to a frenzy ...
I’m looking forward to sharing some of the music that has helped shaped me and that I listened to growing up - some of the songs and artists that have represented my home, Jamaica, across the globe - ...
Multiple Grammy-nominated reggae musician, Rocky Dawuni, has expressed concern that Ghanaian radio stations are keeping reggae music stuck in the past by continually recycling songs that are over a ...