The rhythms of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare – Sly & Robbie – have been the driving force behind numerous songs, dubs and remixes since the mid-1970s, not only with major Jamaican artists but also international stars like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Sly and Robbie were already famous artists in Jamaica […]

1. The warm and authentic soundCDs, MP3s and music that is streamed all sound clean and pristine, manufactured. There is nothing digital about how vinyl records are made, and that’s why their sound offers an experience that is close to listening live music. The crackles and pops and variations in vinyl make it sound more

The vibrant and occasionally outrageous cartoons of Wilfred Limonious decorated the sleeves of many reggae music records, in particular of dancehall vinyl records. He was one of Jamaica’s most prolific graphic artists, working both for the island’s music industry as well as a newspaper cartoonist. Wilfred Limonious was born in 1949 in Albert Town. He

Not many musicians would think of using what is associated to a child’s toy in their songs, yet Augustus Pablo was able to use the unique sound of the melodica to revolutionize Jamaican music in the 1970s. His real name was Horace Swaby, and he was born in 1954 in St. Andrew, Jamaica. In high

Lee Perry is a legend of Reggae, a unique genius of music who was active from the 1960s and all the way to his death in 2021. Born in the rural Jamaican village of Kendal in 1936, Lee “Scratch” Perry began his surrealistic musical odyssey in the late ’50s, when he worked with ska man

Reggae is a music genre that originated in the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. It evolved from earlier musical styles like ska and rocksteady, and eventually developed different genres such as early and classic reggae, roots, lovers rock, dub, rockers and dancehall. Let’s find out the origins and evolution of reggae music.