Music, Business, People, Jamaica
By Chris Salewicz ● Issue 46 (November/December 2000)
Jamaica’s Chris Blackwell
Blackwell’s island In 1958, Chris Blackwell, a 21-year-old white Jamaican, started a small record label in Kingston. Producing the...
Community, Culture, People, Jamaica
By Chris Salewicz ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Pastor Bobby Wilmott: Trench Town Triumph
Nine years ago Sir Nooshie became a gunman in Trench Town: he had just turned 14 years old. Thanks to the songs of Bob Marley, who grew up...
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Chris Salewicz ● Issue 49 (May/June 2001)
Bob Marley: the legend lives on
Twenty years after his death, reggae music has spread across and around the world. It is part of the very fabric of global culture. It was...
Culture, Music, Arts, History, Jamaica
By Chris Salewicz ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
Reggae Xplosion
For an island of less than three million people, Jamaica has had a startling effect on global popular music. Since the world discovered Bob...
By Chris Salewicz ● Issue 21 (September/October 1996)
Redemption Songs
How can you be so ungrateful/After all that God has done for you . . . Unlikely lyrics for a contemporary Jamaican smash hit? Only a year...