<P> Reggae ( / ˈrɛɡeɪ / ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s . The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora . A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals , `` Do the Reggay '' was the first popular song to use the word `` reggae , '' effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience . While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music , the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues , especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint , and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady . Reggae usually relates news , social gossip , and political comment . Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field , being known first as ' Rudie Blues ' , then ' Ska ' , later ' Blue Beat ' , and ' Rock Steady ' . It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat , and the offbeat rhythm section . The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady ; from the latter , reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument . </P>
<P> Reggae ( / ˈrɛɡeɪ / ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s . The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora . A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals , `` Do the Reggay '' was the first popular song to use the word `` reggae , '' effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience . While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music , the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues , especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint , and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady . Reggae usually relates news , social gossip , and political comment . Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field , being known first as ' Rudie Blues ' , then ' Ska ' , later ' Blue Beat ' , and ' Rock Steady ' . It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat , and the offbeat rhythm section . The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady ; from the latter , reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument . </P>
who was the artist that exported reggae to the mainstream world
who was the artist that exported reggae to the mainstream world
Toots and the Maytals
Toots and the Maytals