Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

LEGAL ACTION: Reggae legend Horace Andy says he has not been paid royalties in over 40 years. (Photo by David Corio/Redferns) A RENOWNED reggae singer is planning legal action against a UK record ...

LEGACY IS something that is handed down from one generation to the next, and Reggae Fraternity UK (RFUK) are honouring our British Reggae legacy, with a night of good music and celebration. On Sunday ...

Heartfelt conscious roots reggae track honors 18-year-old UK student Henry Nowak, tragically killed in 2025. All ...

Cimarons, the UK’s first reggae band, played with Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley but barely made a penny; this heartwarming film follows their first gig in 30 years The UK’s first reggae band deserves all ...

Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the UK scene, found ...

Reggae was born in Jamaica, but it found a second home in the UK – the result of waves of post-war Caribbean migration, and the curatorial ambitions of labels like Chris Blackwell’s Island Records, ...

The rhythm of the Caribbean arrived alongside the first Windrush generation when they stepped off the docks of Tilbury 75 years ago in 1948. Invited over to help rebuild war-torn Britain, they brought ...

A popular reggae roots artist has lost his life having caught the coronavirus, his friends and colleagues announced on social media. London based Douglas Sparks, who went by the stage name of UK ...

Internationally famous reggae festival One Love is taking place in Sussex in August after re-locating to the Bentley estate near Lewes.

Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival planner Paul Thompson shares why the city jives with Jamaican music and 2026’s ambitious line-up.