The history of Jamaican pop music will be told in a novel way during ... The Original Maytals Band representing rocksteady; reggae singers Ernie Smith, Wayne Armond, and Ambelique; dancehall ...

Reggae's roots, springing from the social ... lawless with ‘Rude Boys’ gangsters terrorising locals. Music mirrored this and Rocksteady, a slower paced sound, grew in popularity.

Jamaican music producer Clement "Sir Coxsone'' Dodd, an early pioneer of ska, rocksteady and reggae, died on Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 72. In 1963 Dodd opened Studio One, Jamaica's ...

The band fit into the Rocksteady wave of Jamaican music quite well, with a string of hits starting in 1964 and running through 1970. After suffering from a lack of royalty payments, the group joined ...

and a retrospective music set that takes fans through various Jamaican music genres like ska, mento, Nyabinghi and rocksteady. The star-studded lineup includes prominent Jamaican DJ and MC Walshy ...

The Jamaican-American singer will celebrate the history of reggae music with his "Mr. Symphonic" show. The program will trace a legacy that includes mento, ska, rocksteady and reggae through ...