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Celebrate Jamaican Independence Day with the Summer’s Biggest Reggae and...
Today marks 52 years of independence for the country of Jamaica, and it’s impossible to celebrate without a playlist of perfect dancehall and reggae hits. There’s certainly plenty to choose from this...
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Reggae Songstress Hollie Cook Had Bowie for a Babysitter
It’s not often that people describe their parents as “cool,” but when your father is Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, your mother sang backup for Culture Club, and your godfather is Boy George, it’s...
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Hear a Song from Duppy Gun Productions, a Mind-Bending New Jamaican Dancehall...
Cameron Stallones (of L.A. band Sun Araw) and producer M. Geddes Gengras first started working on music in Jamaica in 2011, when they left California for the Caribbean island to work with The Congos,...
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Happy 70th Birthday, Bob Marley! 9 Essential Videos of the Reggae Icon
Bob Marley would have been 70 years old today. In celebration of his life and singular place in music history, here are nine essential clips of the reggae icon—onstage, in the studio, and behind the...
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Meet the Duo Proving That Everything—Even Modeling—Is Better With Your BFF
Navigating New York Fashion Week’s array of fittings and castings can be a daunting process even for experienced models, but everything is a little better when you have your best friend by your side....
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A Breakout Jamaican-British Designer Is the Most Exciting New Voice in Menswear
For those familiar with her most recent collection, there are plenty of reasons to be excited that English-Jamaican designer Grace Wales Bonner has just been nominated for the British Fashion Award...
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One-of-a-Kind Jamaican Dancehall Signs From the Collection of Maxine Walters
Maxine Walters’s love affair with Jamaican dancehall signs happened almost by accident. Walters, producer extraordinaire of film, TV, fashion, and just about everything else, was given her first as a...
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The Designer of Rihanna’s Pum Pum Socks Talks True Jamaican Style
On the subject of Pum Pum Socks, the coquettish line of frilly and splashy Jamaican- and Harajuku-inspired socks devised by Jamaican-British stylist Savannah Baker and her partner, Gemma Shane, and...
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Inside Geejam: The Sublime Jamaican Resort and Music Studio Where Rihanna,...
There may be no other modest-sized country on earth with a musical legacy as large and as rich as Jamaica’s. Not only has the island produced its own takes on calypso, R&B, big band, swing, jazz,...
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Trenchtown Rock: Portraits of Reggae’s Rising Stars
Last spring, photographer Michael Christopher Brown traveled to Jamaica to document its burgeoning new reggae scene for Vogue.com. In Kingston and on the road, Brown met many of the genre’s rising...
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Reggae by the Numbers: Google Searches Around the World
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that, among the cities around the world with the largest volume of search interest in reggae, Kingston, Jamaica, ranks in the top 20, at number 16. But would...
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Meet Skip Marley: The Newest Musician From the Marley Clan
It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and I am waiting to Skype with Skip. That would be Skip Marley, 18, grandson of Bob and Rita; son of their first child, Cedella, of Melody...
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Marlon James on Winning the Man Booker Prize, Fictionalizing Bob Marley, and...
Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction this month for A Brief History of Seven Killings, making him the first Jamaican author to take home the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award. The...
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The Golden Age of Reggae: An Archival Romp With Roots Pioneer Patricia Chin
It all started in 1958 with Randy’s Record Mart, a tiny shop in a converted ice cream parlor in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, and Little Richard were running the airwaves by...
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How Jamaica Fell for the Desert Boot: The Story of Reggae’s Love Affair With...
Expand Vybz Kartel - “Clarks” There’s a lot more history, geography, and, well, swagger, pieced into the simple design of a Clarks Desert Boot than first greets the eye. Its trademark stitchdown...
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Meet the Man Behind Jamaica’s Model Wave
Over the past year, Jamaica has proved to be an undeniable influence on the modeling industry. You’ll find Jamaican faces on the runway for nearly every major designer and posing for fashion’s leading...
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15 Roots Reggae Songs You Should Know
While a population of slightly more than 2.5 million people makes Jamaica roughly the size of Houston, Texas, the influence and creative legacy of classic roots reggae—the Caribbean island’s most...
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Revisiting Rockers: Why the Styles of the ’70s Reggae Cult Classic Still Endure
In the 1978 classic reggae film Rockers, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace swaggers about the Kingston, Jamaica, ghetto he calls home, dapping up all of his sidekicks, and patting some down for money owed....
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Vogue’s Guide to Jamaica: The Best of Ocho Rios, Negril, Port Antonio,...
For years, travelers to Jamaica largely fell into two categories: couples and honeymooners confined to their all-inclusive resorts or cruise-boat tourists, unloading at Montego Bay or Ocho Rios to...
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The Ultimate Dancehall Workout: 5 Easy Moves for an Island Life Body
While in Jamaica tracking the burgeoning Reggae Renaissance, our editors found it impossible not to hear—and move to—a dancehall beat. On the radio, in restaurants, at the beach, the intoxicating...
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