Reggae legend still has rivers to cross Jimmy Cliff realised he had a good voice when he started singing at school during lunchtime and the girls came running. “They said they thought they heard a radio. I said, ‘No, that was me’. And that’s when I thought, ‘Hey, I think I’ve got something here’,” he [...]

Damian Marley to meld reggae styles in Aspen The child of reggae king Bob Marley and 1976 Miss World Cindy Breakspeare, Marley lived in two worlds: his father’s musical realm, which revolved around downtown Kingston, Jamaica, and his mother’s well-to-do uptown existence. Halfway Tree is the name of the roundabout that separates downtown from uptown [...]

UB40 mixes new songs with old gems on latest album Twenty-five years after their recording debut, Britain’s venerable pop-reggae group UB40 _ perhaps best known for the chart-toping 1984 remake of “Red, Red Wine” _ smartly plays to its strengths with politically minded originals alongside reworked pop and reggae classics on “Who You Fighting For.” [...]