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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About half a century ago, drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare revolutionized the sound of reggae as members of the ...

WASHINGTON — Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, ...

Sly Dunbar, Legendary Reggae Drummer Who Anchored Tracks From Bob Marley to Bob Dylan, Dies as 73 Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley ...

Kingston. On postcards, it’s a watercolor hallucination. Too blue, too gentle, too serene to be real. To the south, the Caribbean glows that impossible warm turquoise, the kind that makes tourists ...

"Jimmy is his name, music is his game," an announcer said before reggae icon Jimmy Cliff took the stage at My Father’s Place in Roslyn on Nov. 24, 1978. After enthusiastic applause from the crowd, ...

A week after his demise, the singer reappeared as one of the genre’s top sellers. This article explores the division of his catalog among several record labels. UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of ...

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Before dreadlocks became a thing and reggae a rite of musical passage, there was Jimmy Cliff. The calypso and ska-infected 1969 pop hit “Wonderful World, Beautiful People” was the first landing of ...

One thing about Jimmy Cliff, he understood the assignment. “My role was and is inspiring people,” he told me in 1999, backstage in Oracabessa, Jamaica during the filming of a television special ...