Frederick “Toots” Hibbert was born in the rural Jamaican town of May Pen in Clarendon in 1942, the youngest of seven children. He grew up…

Few soundtracks have changed the face of popular music more than the one for The Harder They Come, which single-handedly put reggae on the map, paving the way…

The original members of British reggae band Steel Pulse – David Hinds, Ronald “Stepper” McQueen, Basil Gabbidon and Selwyn Brown – all hailed from the…

Having quit The Wailers and Island Records (he would frequently call the label boss Chris Blackwell, “Chris Whiteworst”), Tosh delivered Legalize It in 1976. The album was…

Winston Rodney was born in St Ann’s Parish, Jamaica, where civil rights leader Marcus Garvey was born in 1887, some 58 years previously. The experience…

Reggae’s only true superstar, Robert Nesta Marley, was born in 1945 in rural St Ann, Jamaica, the son of a teenage mother and middle-aged white…