Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s ... with origins in enslaved work songs – created with guitar, rumba box, bongo and banjo, Mento mixed this with ...

Jamaican singer Cocoa Tea ... Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Cocoa Tea released a plethora of popular songs, characterized by ...

By Patricia Meschino Jamaican singer Cocoa Tea ... Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Cocoa Tea released a plethora of popular songs, characterized by his pristine, honey-toned vocals and the ...

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 ...

The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento ... Indisputedly Reggae's most-famous and iconic performer, Bob Marley's songs, such as "Get Up", "Stand Up", "Buffalo Soldier" and "I ...

After exploding onto the scene in 2023 as 1Ski Mask, the Jamaican dancehall artist talks ... and launching his 1Ski OG era with a pair of new songs that he calls “more universal”: “Feel ...