Reggae artist Sister Nancy has soared to the top of the charts without releasing any new material. Thanks to Netflix’s hit series Ozark, Sister Nancy’s 1982 hit “Bam Bam” has landed in the number one ...

In the Kenyan dancehalls and discotheques in the 80s and 90s, one song (or versions of it) ruled. Many Kenyans might not be familiar with the name Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the lead singer and ...

“Reggae is only what you hear and think is reggae,” Peter Tosh pronounces at the beginning of Heartland Reggae (1980)—and a lot of what sounds like just that is playing at BAMcinématek during the long ...

The Sister Nancy documentary is making its global theater debut. A documentary spotlighting the woman behind what is often hailed as “one of the most-sampled reggae songs” premiered in theaters on ...

Wa-ka, wa-ka is the sound of the first riffs that open up Bob Marley’s “Stir It Up.” Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam” begins with slow-paced horns that give way to her cool cadence. Drums pause with the ...

The Newark Black Film Festival was started in 1974 and has since become the longest-running festival of Black cinema in the U.S "Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story," which chronicles the life of Jamaican ...

Vermont’s reggae revival continues Friday, when the Green Mountain Reggae Festival returns to the Bradford Fairgrounds to kick off its second annual three-day soiree — which follows a positive ...

Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story, the latest feature from Canadian filmmaker Alison Duke, will receive a gala screening at this year’s Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival. The film is an exploration of the ...