Bob Marley News

Few Jamaicans chart in Japan, US and Europe signalling, as pundits suggest, that international reggae doesn't need Jamaica.

Although he is the son of music royalty, Ky-Mani Marley says life has not always been a bed of roses.

Bob Marley was fruitful and he multiplied a bunch. No small number of his offspring have decided to follow his path in making reggae.

Rarely in music does wearing one's politics on their sleeve turn out well; noble intentions and good music are usually strange bedfellows.

Brazilian pop singer Bebel Gilberto is probably known more in the U.S. for her collaborations than for her solo work, even though she is a native New Yorker.

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In the Caribbean, with its peculiar history, there is possibly no better window into our more recent social history than the works of the 'grass roots' artistes.

Uma and Dana in the Youth Services Department have been buying lots of interesting books lately.

Johnny Cash sang about having shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Bob Marley belted out that he had shot the local sheriff, but not the deputy.

Images by: Julie Collins Julian Marley feat. Stephen Marley :: 10.23.09 :: The Wild Hare :: Chicago, IL Julian Marley :: 10.23 :: Chicago Awake , Julian Marley 's latest album released earlier this year is a great example of him stepping out from the Marley Brothers fold and into his own musical identity.

Bob Marley sang about shooting the sheriff. Johnny Cash sang about shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Legendary band The Wailers return to the UK for a short tour and visit Manchester on the 26th November to play at The Ritz.

Overall, it was not the best of shows - that's the concert in celebration of the 79th anniversary of the coronation of Haile Selassie I, and his wife Empress Menen, on Monday at the Bob Marley Museum.

'There's a strange sort of febrile atmosphere in the country at the moment' THEY look a bit alike , they are certainly singing from the same song-sheet, they even finish each others' sentences and the country is deeply divided into either love 'em or loathe 'em camps.

As part of its new licensing agreement with Disney Music Group, Tuff Gong International will distribute throughout the Caribbean the soundtrack of Walt Disney's new animated film The Princess and the Frog .

It must be something in the sausage rolls. How else to explain the remarkable claim of New Zealand to be the southern hemisphere's answer to Jamaica? In truth, I haven't heard this claim made explicitly, but added to the the existing library of Kiwi reggae these two new releases certainly argue in that direction.

Ryan Leslie, "Transition" Nine months after putting out his debut CD to underwhelming response, Ryan Leslie is back, this time, with "Transition." The transition doesn't refer to his music.

Late reggae singer Bob Marley could be worth billions to his family. SUPPLIED FILE PICTURE Coming to a store near you: Bob Marley video games, shoes ... snowboards? A Toronto-based company hired by the Marley family to protect the late singer's brand has that planned and more.

Despite his death 28 years ago, the music of Bob Marley still reverberates around the world.

Coming to a store near you: Bob Marley video games, shoes .... snowboards? Bob Marley in concert - twenty-five years after Bob Marley's death, his widow has revealed fascinating details of their relationship.