Jimmy Cliff, a legend of the Jamaican entertainment world and one of the most influential reggae musicians to ever live, has passed away at the age of 81. His death was announced by his family on ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Batala Philly is an all-volunteer drum troupe that promotes and shares Afro-Brazilian percussion. This fusion of Brazilian samba with Jamaican reggae is known as 'samba-reg', ...

Rafael Pondé moved from Brazil to Ocean Beach to play reggae in 2022. He spent a year living — and meditating — in a minivan. His music — meditational reggae, heavy on the metaphysics — makes it clear ...

If you haven’t heard of Gilberto Gil, either you’re not Brazilian or you’ve been hiding under a pop-music rock far too long. Gil is one of Brazil’s best-known singer-songwriters. He has performed his ...

For the third year in a roll, Broward and the City of Pompano Beach become the center stage of the The Brazilian Festival of Pompano Beach, Florida’s Largest Brazilian Festival. In 2014, an estimated ...

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist ...

On Oct. 9, in collaboration with The Drake and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Fine Arts Center, artist and activist Bia Ferreira kicked off the first of a three artist-activist performance ...

Stephen Marley has teamed up with Playing For Change to re-record father Bob’s 1974 reggae anthem “No Woman, No Cry” with Brazilian icon Gilberto Gill and other musicians from around the world in ...

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport (MCGES) and the Ministry of Tourism have proposed twinning Jamaica’s tourism capital, Montego Bay, with the Brazilian city of São Luís.

The Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism for Jamaica, and his Brazilian Counterpart Tourism Celso Sabino make it possible – Samba will meet reggae in Jamaica. In the most connected Caribbean ...

Reggae Sumfest is spreading its wings beyond Jamaica. For the festival’s 2025 staging, organizer Joe Bogdanovich is eyeing an earlier show date in Brazil. “Right now, we’re looking at Brazil,” the ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...