“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 ...

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 ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the Jamaican bass guitarist best known as half of the reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie, died on Wednesday, Jamaica's culture minister said. He was 68. Born Robert Warren Dale ...

He was the gentle, dreadlocked musician who gave the popular Canadian blues-reggae rock group Big Sugar its distinctive bass sound. But Garry Lowe, who died of cancer on July 7 at the age of 64, ...

"Those three notes in Peaches: you do those three notes and it's instantly identifiable" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As bass ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos, violins, ...