Reggae
Online critics roast white band for reggae award win
Grammys 2022: Questlove’s Will Smith joke, Zelenskyy appears remotely Jon Batiste was the big winner at the 64th Grammys with five trophies. The night was filled with highlights, from performances to cameos. Entertain This!, USA TODAY American reggae band SOJA took home the Grammy for best reggae album at the 64th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, …
‘Toots’ Hibbert, Jamaican reggae legend, dies aged 77
Hibbert “passed away peacefully” in Jamaica “surrounded by his family” at the University Hospital of the West Indies late Friday, the Twitter statement said. While the cause of his death has not been announced, the band said on September 3 that Hibbert had been taken to intensive care and was waiting to receive the results …
‘So flawed and problematic’: why the term ‘world music’ is dead | Music
Ask most musicians what genre they play and you’ll likely get a prickly response. As one well-known, and slightly tipsy, jazz musician once told me: “If you all stopped obsessing about me playing ‘jazz’, maybe I would be playing festival stages rather than tiny clubs by now.” But while there have been meandering debates about …
