Producer Bunny Lee--- Bunny Lee, one of the top record producers of the golden age of ska, rocksteady and early reggae music, celebrates 50 years in the entertainment business this
BY KEVIN JACKSON--- Alton Ellis--- A 19-song collection of songs released by Studio One in the late 1960's and early 1970's, debuts at number 15 on this week’s Billboard Reggae
Delroy Wilson---- WHILE it produced some of the ‘baddest’ bass lines and Jamaica’s most influential singers, rocksteady has never enjoyed the acclaim afforded ska, roots-reggae or dancehall. To observe the
Keble Drummond--- In early 1967, an American-Canadian rock band named Buffalo Springfield entered the Billboard chart with their anti-war song named For What it’s Worth. Renamed Watch This Sound, a
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 Simone Morgan--- Veteran producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee points to a section of his studio that was destroyed by fire earlier this month. LEGENDARY music producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee's Gorgon
By Basil Walters--- Derrick Morgan and Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee have inspired many star performers from Greenwich Town---. THE Greenwich Town community in Kingston will honor two of its outstanding musical
Delroy Wilson - File The 1972 gospel-based recording I'll Take You There by The Staple Singers soared to the top of the American Billboard charts that year. It triggered a
By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston--- MUSIC producer Winston 'Niney' Holness is determined to revive the fortunes of the reggae singer with his Observer Soundbox studio which officially opens on Tuesday. Holness
By Marlon Burrell Did you know that when Max Romeo wrote the song "Wet Dream" he did not want to record it himself? He brought the song to producer