Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that “Toast,” by ...

Koffee, the 19-year-old wunderkind out of Jamaica's Spanish Town, became the first female artist ever to take home the Grammy for best reggae album at this year's recent awards show. Her Rapture is a ...

Koffee has only had about a dozen of her songs widely available to stream until now, but the 22-year-old Jamaican artist is already proving she can reinvigorate reggae and dancehall for a pop audience ...

A wave of new talent is bringing a jolt of energy to reggae culture. Names such as Royal Blu, Lila Ike and Runkus have been making noise with major hits, but leading the pack is 19-year-old sensation ...

Since releasing her hit single “Toast” in 2018, Koffee has quickly ascended the ranks of contemporary reggae. The following year, her debut EP Rapture rose to number one on Billboard’s Reggae Albums ...

The Grammy-winning artist Koffee, whose debut full-lenth album, Gifted, is out March 25. At the 2018 edition of the Jamaican reggae festival Rebel Salute, legendary singer Cocoa Tea interrupted his ...

For her first 16 years, Koffee’s life was an insular one that rarely took her outside of Spanish Town, a Jamaican city about 10 miles west of Kingston. “I lived there, and my school was there too, so ...

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Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

Over five years ago, while completing my master's in music and business at NYU, I did an academic project with Spotify. The point of the project was to answer the question “Is there a real reggae ...

KINGSTON—Toward the end of August 2017, a 17-year-old Jamaican musician named Mikayla Simpson uploaded a video of herself singing to her Instagram account. In the short clip, she strummed her acoustic ...

At the 2018 edition of the Jamaican reggae festival Rebel Salute, legendary singer Cocoa Tea interrupted his set to introduce a petite, teenaged female artist, excitedly telling the audience of more ...