“We kept praying for a miracle, but it was not enough,” said Shakespeare’s manager and producer. Famed bass player Robbie Shakespeare, one half of the pioneering reggae band Sly and Robbie, has died ...

It originated on a small Carribean island and grew to become a global phenomenon recognised as a cultural institution by ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the renowned reggae bassist who helped move the genre into new sonic territory and whose playing was heard on classics by Black Uhuru and Peter Tosh as well as albums by rock icons ...

On April 22, 1978 30,000 people filled Kingston’s National Stadium to see the One Love Peace concert. On the bill was singer Dennis Brown, pop-reggae sensation Inner Circle, the vocal trio The Mighty ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the Jamaican bass guitarist best known as half of the reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie, died on Wednesday, Jamaica's culture minister said. He was 68. Born Robert Warren Dale ...

He was the gentle, dreadlocked musician who gave the popular Canadian blues-reggae rock group Big Sugar its distinctive bass sound. But Garry Lowe, who died of cancer on July 7 at the age of 64, ...

Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, these four double-CD collections place the evolution of Jamaican music in its rightful historic context. Whereas before, if you ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos, violins, ...

Famed bass player Robbie Shakespeare, one half of the pioneering reggae band Sly and Robbie, has died at age 68. Shakespeare’s manager confirmed he passed away in Miami on Wednesday due to ...