Hip-hop and R&B may initially come to mind when you think of black music, reggae is also a big part of the sonic landscape. And though domestically it may be an afterthought in comparison to those ...

The Grammy Awards are scheduled for January 26 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Five nominees (Beres Hammond, Ziggy Marley, Sizzla, Snoop Lion and Sly and Robbie) are up for Best Reggae Album.

NOT SINCE MAXI PRIEST and Shabba Ranks joined forces several years ago for “House Call” has a reggae artist made as huge a mainstream splash as Shaggy’s. Shaggy (aka Orville Richard Burrell) has ...

Shaggy's entire performance was purely a seductive interaction with the audience. With his energetic style talented three-member troupe of back up singers, the Grammy-award winning reggae sensation ...

Sting has sung with jazz musicians and rappers, written a musical about shipbuilding on his native Tyneside and released an album of Renaissance lute music. But his latest escapade - a set of ...

Touring their Grammy-winning album, Sting is in decent voice, but Shaggy adds little of substance The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an ...

As Shaggy storms angrily into view backstage at a festival near Frankfurt, he momentarily doesn't look like the friendly face of Jamaican dancehall music. The ever-popular singer of such hits as 'Oh ...

Shaggy performs this Sunday at Mardi Gras in North Miami. Courtesy of Ranch Entertainment It wasn’t that long ago, Mr. Boombastic, aka Shaggy, used to call Miami home. Now the Grammy Award-winning ...

Boss Sounds hosts the UK’s most massive reggae festival featuring the legendary Jimmy Cliff, the dub-tastic Lee "Scratch" Perry, poetic Linton Kwesi Johnson and DJ Don Letts with the Trojan Sound ...

The year 1995 was big for dancehall music. One of its flag-bearers was deejay Shaggy, whose third studio album Boombastic rocked the American pop and R&B charts. Boombastic contains songs by producers ...

This evening of classic reggae, 2-tone and ska was a huge success last year and now it’s returned even bigger and better with 2 massive stages. Centenary Square has been dramatically transformed and 7 ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...