If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.

When Bob Marley died in 1981, it seemed he took reggae with him. No other artist or group captured the world`s attention in quite the same way, and the music that some partisans predicted would ...

In 2010, Cliff became only the second reggae musician, after Bob Marley, to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...

It's Thursday night in downtown Johannesburg and some 500 people are packed into Bassline, a warehouse-like club in a hipster-friendly neighborhood. They're here for South Africa's longest-running ...

The Jamaican singer-songwriter and star of ‘The Harder They Come,’ who died Monday at age 81, was pivotal in bringing the ...

In 1977, Seydou Kone was studying English at Columbia University and working four jobs. He was 5,000 miles from his home in West Africa, but Kone was ecstatic to be in a country that spawned Woodstock ...

Rapper Nas has teamed up with Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley to release a new studio album and kick off a worldwide tour on Friday that bows to their African ancestry and the roots of reggae and ...

A monument of Jamaican music for over half a century, singer Jimmy Cliff died on Monday at the age of 81. While he made the world dance and transcended generations with hits like "Reggae Night" and ...

From Beyoncé's The Lion King: The Gift to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that include original songs by African… By Heran Mamo African artists ...