In honor of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, In The Know wants to shine the spotlight on 19-year-old singer Koffee. Koffee is making waves in the industry — not just as the youngest person and the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — As they say in Jamaica, “big tings a gwan” for Koffee. The Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer released her EP, “Rapture,” this year and there are already rumors of the young ...

Last spring, Koffee was looking forward to a pivotal year in her career. At 19 years old, she’d just won the Best Reggae Album Grammy for her 2019 EP, Rapture, making history as the first woman and ...

Koffee is marveling at the world’s tallest freestanding dinosaur skeleton, a long-necked Barosaurus that makes the five-foot-tall Jamaican musician look like a tiny figurine in comparison. As she ...

A wave of new talent is bringing a jolt of energy to reggae culture. Names such as Royal Blu, Lila Ike and Runkus have been making noise with major hits, but leading the pack is 19-year-old sensation ...

Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

Koffee, the 19-year-old wunderkind out of Jamaica's Spanish Town, became the first female artist ever to take home the Grammy for best reggae album at this year's recent awards show. Her Rapture is a ...

One of the biggest revolutions at the 2020 Grammys occurred outside of the televised primetime ceremony: The 19-year-old singer Koffee won Best Reggae Album, making her the first woman to take home an ...

At the 2018 edition of the Jamaican reggae festival Rebel Salute, legendary singer Cocoa Tea interrupted his set to introduce a petite, teenaged female artist, excitedly telling the audience of more ...

For her first 16 years, Koffee’s life was an insular one that rarely took her outside of Spanish Town, a Jamaican city about 10 miles west of Kingston. “I lived there, and my school was there too, so ...

Over five years ago, while completing my master's in music and business at NYU, I did an academic project with Spotify. The point of the project was to answer the question “Is there a real reggae ...

KINGSTON—Toward the end of August 2017, a 17-year-old Jamaican musician named Mikayla Simpson uploaded a video of herself singing to her Instagram account. In the short clip, she strummed her acoustic ...