Sting said he’d appear onstage as “Shaggy’s bass player” when the pair tours in support of its new collaborative album 44/876, which was released today. The LP, titled after the international dialing ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the renowned reggae bassist who helped move the genre into new sonic territory and whose playing was heard on classics by Black Uhuru and Peter Tosh as well as albums by rock icons ...

On April 22, 1978 30,000 people filled Kingston’s National Stadium to see the One Love Peace concert. On the bill was singer Dennis Brown, pop-reggae sensation Inner Circle, the vocal trio The Mighty ...

CNN — Robbie Shakespeare, the legendary bass player and one half of the band Sly and Robbie, has died at the age of 68. Shakespeare's friend, manager and producer Guillaume Bougard confirmed the ...

The ever-popular Bass Camp and Reggae festivals, produced by PR Entertainment, are not returning to South Shore this year. Back in January Paul Reder, the production company’s founder, originally ...

“We kept praying for a miracle, but it was not enough,” said Shakespeare’s manager and producer. Famed bass player Robbie Shakespeare, one half of the pioneering reggae band Sly and Robbie, has died ...

Reggae music would be nothing without its bass line—and on December 8, one of the genre’s most admired bass players, Robbie Shakespeare, died in Florida at age 68 from kidney-related complications.