After Usain Bolt won the 100-meter Olympic gold medal in Rio this week, NBC’s Bob Costas wondered if the sprinter had surpassed reggae music icon Bob Marley as the most popular Jamaican in the ...

You can hear the influence of traditional Jamaican music as well as American rhythm ‘n’ blues ... This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic ...

Adopting America R&B style but adding Mento elements ... UK chart with My Boy Lollipop in 1964. This seeping of Jamaican music in to popular culture would continue with cult 1972 film The Harder ...

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this ...

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