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Reggae/Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel just received some life-altering news. He will be spending the rest of his life in a Jamaican prison for the 2011…

LONDON (AP) — A British coroner on Wednesday opened an inquest into the 2011 death of reggae star Smiley Culture, who was stabbed in the heart during a police raid on his home. Police say the London-born musician stabbed himself with a kitchen knife as four officers searched his house in March 2011 in connection […]

Toots Hibbert was struck by a glass bottle a fan threw at him earlier this month, an incident that resulted in injuries serious enough for the reggae singer to have to cancel his entire tour, reports Billboard. Hibbert — whose real name Frederick Hibbert — is still undergoing treatment for injuries stemming from the vodka […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Twenty-five years after his murder, Jamaica's government on Monday honored the contributions of firebrand reggae musician and songwriter Peter Tosh, one of the Caribbean island's musical giants. Tosh's daughter Niambe, an educator from Boston, Massachusetts, received the posthumous "order of merit" – the country's third highest honor – on behalf of […]