AS I watched the celebrations for Black History Month, Reggae Month, and the birthday of musical icon Bob Marley, I observed a missing factor. If the Rastafari movement is the largest black ...
Actor, film-maker, activist and the granddaughter of Bob and Rita Marley, Donisha Prendergast is currently in India where she conducted sessions at Goa Sunsplash — India’s biggest reggae and sound ...
Music and religion have long made for a potent mix. In the case of reggae and the Rastafari religion, the links go deep, as a new compilation from the Soul Jazz label makes clear. Rastafari: The ...
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and ...
Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...
Taking on the name Snoop Lion, the rapper embraces reggae on his new album and brings his Jamaican experience to the Toronto Film Festival in the form of a documentary. By Steve Bloom Call him Rasta ...
At age 6, while growing up in Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Ester Rada began rejecting the music her Ethiopian refugee parents played at home, as well as the Amharic ...
How did a kid from West Texas become known as Rasta Stevie? Durango has many colorful characters. Rasta Stevie is certainly one of them. Rasta Stevie moved to Durango in 1996, and right away, started ...