It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...
Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...
Caique Vidal is a Durham-based Afro-Brasilian musician and teacher. Caique Vidal’s voice is robust and unequivocal over driving percussion and horn sections. In harmony with his band Batuque, the ...
Drummer John “Brad” Bradbury, an integral part of the Specials’ unique ska and reggae sound for many years, has died at the age of 62. Bradbury’s family and the band announced his death Tuesday. A ...
PORTSMOUTH — Records show in 1645 the first known Black person in Portsmouth was an enslaved man captured from Guinea who was sold to a man residing in the Piscataqua region. That’s according to the ...
Caique Vidal is a Durham-based Afro-Brasilian musician and teacher. Caique Vidal’s voice is robust and unequivocal over driving percussion and horn sections. In harmony with his band Batuque, the ...