Prince Buster, one of Jamaica’s most revered musicians and producers who helped define the ska movement from its inception, died Sept. 8 at a hospital in Miami. He was 78. The cause was complications ...

*Prince Buster, the Jamaican musician widely credited with pioneering ska and rocksteady music, died in Miami on Thursday at the age of 78, his son Kareem Ali confirmed to the Jamaican Observer.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell in ...

Ska has been in the air lately. The great documentary Pick It Up! – Ska in the ’90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes’ great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there’s been ...

The fate of Polemic, one of Slovakia's most popular bands, can be compared to that of the world-famous American band No Doubt. Both started out playing ska - the music formed in Jamaica in the 1960s ...

In Jamaica, before reggae and rocksteady, there was ska. Emerging in the late 1950s, ska was a combination of calypso, American jazz and R&B. Ska evolved as Jamaican singers and musicians put their ...

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NEW YORK — Prince Buster, a performer and producer who transformed Jamaican music in the 1960s as a trailblazer of the ska beat, died Thursday in Miami. He was 78. His wife, Mola Ali, confirmed his ...