Dancehall music has long been one of Jamaica’s most powerful cultural exports, influencing artists and audiences across continents. From Kingston’s vibrant streets to clubs and festivals around the ...

With his crooner’s voice and sociopolitical lyrics, Everton Blender is one of the leaders of a growing trend in Jamaican music: a renaissance of the rasta roots vibration within the island’s dominant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At this point, it seems no establishment on the planet gets bodies moving without the aid of dancehall music. Since its origin in ...

This is why Dancehall can chart the next course for Afrobeats' continuous ascension. Although barely a teenager when Sean Paul made the smash hit, Cynthia Morgan would switch the "Gal" to "Boy" a ...

Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs from artists like shewahdexta & Jah Lil. By Kyle Denis A new year means ample opportunity for new riddims to take over the globe. After a ...

Jamaican dancehall recording artist, Spice, chatted with Digital Journal’s Markos Papadatos about “Go Down Deh,” her latest collaboration with Sean Paul and Shaggy. She is affectionately known as the ...

Trace the evolution of the genre over the decades via songs by Sister Nancy, Cutty Ranks, Super Cat and more. By David Renard Great to be back with you again. I’m Dave Renard, an editor on the Times ...

Dancehall is a Jamaican genre of music with deep roots in reggae. Sean Paul, one of the world's most popular dancehall artists, breaks down some of his favorite tracks to ever come out of the genre.

“Some people may see the colors that I wear, all the clothes that I wear, and feel like I am not worthy to sing a gospel song," she tells PEOPLE Dancehall star Spice is working on something unexpected ...

Spice is known as the Queen of Dancehall, but she might also be queen of the comeback. The Jamaican singer and reality star, whose real name is Grace Hamilton, overcame childhood traumas including the ...

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...