PEMBROKE PINES, Florida — Reggae Global Radio (RGR), an internet station, is scheduled to make its debut today. General Manager Marlon Burrell, says it will have an international cast with broad ...
Though reggae was en vogue in Europe and New York in 1979, Clint O’Neil had to convince radio officials at WLRN, FM 91.3, of the music’s popularity so they would put his Sounds of the Caribbean ...
NEW YORK - Gil Bailey was a legendary broadcaster on Caribbean radio for more than half a century. For many Caribbean-American New Yorkers he was the voice they listened to for news, culture and music ...
When you think reggae, what do you think of? Bob Marley, right? But where else does your mind go? Probably not to Virginia or, really, anywhere in America. When you think reggae, you think of Jamaica, ...
Broadcast legend Gil Bailey, who brought Caribbean music to the tri-state area and whose career spanned 50 years at four different local radio stations, died of COVID-19 earlier this week at the age ...
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, violins, ...