Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Casio Computer Co., Hiroko Okuda holds, at its headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2022, the Casio MT-40 ...

In 1980, a young woman who loved Jamaican music and graduated from music college with a thesis on reggae joined Casio Computer as a developer. The very first instrument she worked on helped usher in a ...

Lloyd ‘Jammy’ James caused a music revolution in Jamaica. When he unleashed Wayne Smith’s ‘Under Me Sleng Teng’ onto an unsuspecting public in 1985, production values changed overnight as Jamaican ...

For more than two decades, packs of profiling, rhyming hopefuls have stood 24-7 in King Jammy’s sun-baked Kingston yard, each one praying to be called into an adjoining recording studio and emerge as ...

I grew up on a farm in Iowa, and no part of the state’s culture has stayed with me more strongly than my devotion to the pizza from Casey’s, a chain of gas stations that started in Iowa over 50 years ...

Singer and Dancehall Reggae pioneer Wayne Smith, who ushered in a new wave of digital beats in the genre, is dead at 48. Credited with creating the still popular “Under mi Sleng Teng” riddim, or ...

The reggae singer Wayne Smith, known for revitalizing the genre in the 1980s, has died, according to the Jamaica Observer (via Rolling Stone). He passed after being admitted to a hospital in Kingston, ...

TOKYO, Japan — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the ...

TOKYOTOKYO — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the 1985 ...