Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

Pitchfork is reporting that Prince Buster, a pioneer of the Jamaican musical genres known as ska and rocksteady, has died. A major influence on the ska revival of the 1970s, as well as producer and ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS SF/AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

Apr. 21—Don't call Mephiskapheles ska-punk. The band, headlining eSKApe at Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton on Sunday, April 23, brings a certain hardcore intensity but the music is more complex. Since ...

Johnny Moore, 70, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites, died Saturday of cancer in Kingston, Jamaica, according to music promoter Herbie Miller ...

Millie Small, who is known for bringing ska music to the masses with “My Boy Lollipop,” died in London yesterday (May 5) following a stroke, the BBC reported. She was 72. “Millie opened the door for ...

The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell in ...