As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. By Clay Risen Sly Dunbar, who as the drumming half of the ...
Legendary Jamaican drummer and producer Lowell ‘Sly’ Dunbar has joined the army of fallen reggae soldiers – pioneering heavyweights of reggae like Bunny Wailer, Lee “Scratch” Perry, U-Roy, Jimmy Cliff ...
Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, the reggae drummer who helped define the sound of Jamaican music for decades, died Monday. He was 73. Dunbar had been in poor health and died at his home in Kingston, according to ...
In the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic landfall, Jamaicans turned to reggae music as a source of strength. Songs of upliftment inundated social media as recovery efforts got underway late ...
Two Jamaican artists, Cocoa Tea and Determine, passed away recently, leaving behind a legacy of “conscious” reggae music that was especially popular in the 1990s even as the dancehall genre expanded ...