By Roy Black--- Dennis Alcapone--- Another of the international ambassadors for the Jamaican music industry is Dennis Alcapone, who became well known in the 1960's and 1970's for his DJ recordings
By Roy Black--- Derrick Harriott--- Three distinct phases to his career - two with the Jiving Juniors and one as a solo artist; two different voices that created hits for nearly
Marcia Griffiths---- Any attempt to compile a top-10 listing of the best female rocksteady vocalists, could prove a very interesting, but challenging exercise. In a two-year blitz that spawned
By Patricia Meschino---- When veteran Jamaican singer Leroy Sibbles took the stage at the St. Kitts Music Festival, the audience drew closer to savor his smooth delivery of vintage hits
Bob Andy-- Last week's article showcased a couple of the commonly accepted inaccuracies in early Jamaican popular music, and sought to provide credible evidences to substantiate those claims. There were
Gladdy Anderson--- Gladstone ‘Gladdy’ Anderson, a prolific musician who made his mark in the rocksteady era, died on December 3 at age 81. Kingsley Goodison, Anderson’s close friend, told the
Lloyd Parks & Everald Gayle-- LIKE many musically-inclined youth in Jamaica during the late 1960s, Lloyd Parks was a big fan of rocksteady music. His group of choice was The
By Roy Black--- Prince Buster--- Legendary Jamaican ska singer, songwriter, record producer, and sound system operator of the 1960's, Prince Buster, celebrated a birthday last week. The milestone revives memories of
As we come to the close of Reggae Month 2015, it is important that we remember the struggles and impediments that Alton Ellis encountered in his efforts to help establish
To the well-reputed 1960s Kingston College headmaster, Douglas Forrest, it is almost an unforgivable sin for a student with a talent for singing to not find himself in the school's