In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist Originally published on Global VoicesOpening of the Reggae Maranhão Museum, the first of its kind outside of Jamaica. Photo: Ingrid Barros, used with permission. There are a few versions of how reggae music first arrived in São Luís, capital of Maranhão state, in the northeastern region of Brazil. One says that amateur …