known in Jamaican music as rocksteady (or rock steady), the direct forerunner to reggae. “The Heptones had so many hits during the rocksteady era and here I am 50 years later singing them for an ...

and the more rock-influenced reggae music of Bob Marley and other bands that became Jamaica's biggest cultural export. Many of the rocksteady tunes are straight-ahead love songs such as The Tide ...

Just like its musical predecessors, ska and rocksteady, reggae emerged from the poorest areas of West Kingston. It was a fitting music for the fluctuating times. Jackie Jackson Courtesy Photo ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to ...

lively ska and sexy rocksteady. Reggae can range from party music and love songs to stirring socially conscious calls to fight the power, such as the reggae standard Get Up Stand Up.

and a retrospective music set that takes fans through various Jamaican music genres like ska, mento, Nyabinghi and rocksteady. The star-studded lineup includes prominent Jamaican DJ and MC Walshy ...

DESMOND DEKKER, the first international star of Jamaican ska and rocksteady music, died of a heart attack in late May at the age of 64. Before Bob Marley made reggae music into a world phenomenon ...

Music producer Patrice Bart-Williams wanted to inject Jamaican flavour into the holidays with Patrice Presents Rocksteady Christmas, a project of holiday favourites set to a pulsating beat ...

The blues nourished Rusty Zinn's soul, but reggae music has set his spirit soaring ... and Brown's seminal role in the rise of doo-wop-infused rocksteady, reggae's predecessor, jibes perfectly ...

Documentary chronicling the rocksteady era of Jamaican music in the 1960s, which gave birth to reggae. Some of the island's greatest singers and players perform a reunion concert. Show more The ...

You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...