Looking at the Casio Casiotone MT40, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an unremarkable keyboard. You may even have owned one just like it. Launched in 1981, the cream machine came with 37 keys, 22 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three years after Bob Marley’s death in 1981, the roots-reggae sound he led to international acceptance was still popular in Jamaica. However, it was under pressure from an emerging genre called ...

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New technology has always driven new styles of music, and while authorship of the "sleng teng" rhythm has been disputed, it seems likely that it was Wayne Smith himself who found the sound as a ...

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 ...

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 reggae hit ...

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In this photo released by Casio Computer Co., Hiroko Okuda holds the Casio MT-40 portable keyboard player, which she created in 1981, at Casio Computer Co. headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2022, ...