If rap music is the CNN of black America, dancehall reggae is the equivalent for ghetto youth in Jamaica. Since first emerging in the late ’60s, Jamaican DJs (the reggae version of hip-hop’s MCs) have ...
In 1982, at the height of his career, Yellowman (born Winston Foster) was diagnosed with skin cancer. After being in ...
If you love reggae and have a deep pocketbook, a three-day cruise to Jamaica may satisfy your need to hear the island nation’s great music. An eight-hour flight to London, reggae’s second home, is ...
Fun in the sun is a given at most Caribbean islands. But good music is not. How many travelers have gone to the islands only to be shocked by how bland the entertainment is? There may be musical ...
Yellowman was king of the island in the early to mid-’80s, and made his way into the music in the U.S. On Run-DMC’s 1985 album, “King of Rock,” they teamed with Yellowman in his song “Roots, Rap, ...
Born with albinism in 1956, dancehall music legend King Yellowman was rejected from birth. As a baby, he was found in a supermarket’s trash heap in Kingston, Jamaica. Miraculously surviving and raised ...
NEW HAVEN -- Yellowman, the striking, albino, constantly-touring king of reggae dancehall music, returns to Toad's Place with his Sagittarius Band Tuesday to bring ...
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