He is the charismatic ‘Captain of the Big Ship’ who has spent several decades navigating the musical high seas, releasing classics, thrilling fans and collecting numerous accolades along the way. Tomorrow, Freddie McGregor celebrates his 64th ‘...
In 1967, a group called The Jamaicans, which comprised Tommy Cowan, Norris Weir, Owen Hylton and Martin Williams, won the Festival Song Competition, with a song titled Baba Boom Time. The win secured for the group tours of the Caribbean, Canada...
Maxi Priest will have a lot of explaining to do to his legion of female fans about his new Cheater single. It came from a studio session where his colleagues boosted him to record a song. On the groovy track, Maxi Priest describes an all-too-...
Roots singer Chezidek celebrated his birthday on Saturday and the Rastaman is ‘stunting’ in a spanking new Mercedes-Benz, which he treated himself to on his special day. Chezidek, who recently released a potentially anthemic single, Because I’m...
On Sunday, a cross section of entertainment industry stakeholders, many of them event promoters, convened a meeting with the aim of forging a unified front in charting a way forward in these COVID times, and also to strategise on how to regain...
No group does celebration quite like Fab 5, and the 50-year-old band, which has found success with all genres of Jamaica music, as well as their own compositions of soca, is proving their tried and tested formula yet again with their latest...
Reggae and dancehall giants Buju Banton and Vybz Kartel have selected the same date to drop their newest albums and fans of both seem tickled by this coincidence. Friday, June 26, 2020, is the day on which Buju, the legendary reggae and dancehall...
A ‘calling’ is an urge towards a particular way of life or career, and that’s exactly what neo roots reggae artiste, Yaadcore, sings about in his sophomore single, The Calling. Co-produced by Haiti-born Young Zoe, Ian McKee and also Yaadcore,...
Fans of Buju Banton have been holding their collective breaths in anticipation of the arrival of his first album in over a decade. Originally set to be released in April, the date was pushed back. The wait, however, could come to an end later this...
It has been two and a half weeks since Jean Watt, the spouse of legendary reggae singer Bunny Wailer, has gone missing from the family home in Washington Gardens, St Andrew, and a reward is now on the table. However, as the search intensifies,...
Tropical House Cruises to Jamaica: The Reggae Collector’s Edition has been enjoying major chart success since its official release last Friday. The compilation album, headlined by ‘King of African Dancehall’ Shatta Wale, and which features other...
Sista Sasha is determined to do it her way in an era where dancehall gospel singers who had found fame on the secular stage are still earnestly carving out their path and shunning all mention of their former lifestyle altogether. Cognisant of her...
The chant ‘Jah is real’ no doubt has the same potency to a Rastafarian as the sentence ‘God is real’ does to Christians. For reggae artistes Pressure Busspipe and Protoje, who recently collaborated on a song, titled Jah is Real, and subsequently...
Singer and musician Benjy Myaz’s newest project, Rootsy Rhapsody, recently encountered a derailment owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the entertainer is taking this in his musical stride and continues tapping to the beat. After all, Rootsy...
When French record producer, house music DJ, and remixer Bob Sinclar teams up with OMI, the result is pure magic – a celebratory track driven by the flavourful mix of sounds and coupled with compelling lyrics that speak positivity. Sinclar, the...
A four-letter word best describes the display of musical mastery that unfolded on the Instagram Live battle, Verzuz, on Saturday night: EPIC. It will be days, perhaps weeks, or even months before everybody ceases talking about the showmanship of...
It was on the eve of the birthday of Sugar Minott, the Godfather of Dancehall, that the highly anticipated Verzus clash featuring dancehall gladiators Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, splendidly showed off Jamaica to the nearly half a million persons...
One of the last projects on which legendary music industry producer Bobby ‘Bobby Digital’ Dixon worked was Buju Banton’s newest album, to which he contributed two tracks. Bobby Digital, who passed away early Friday morning, had been on dialysis for...
For his birthday on April 13, reggae singer Capleton was forced to do a Facebook Live session rather than his usual celebration, which always sees the birthday boy treating family, colleagues, and members of his Cassia Park community in St Andrew....
When Skip Marley linked up for a collab with multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning artiste H.E.R., little did he know that in the week of May 17, 2020, he would be dominating music headlines with a history-making feat. It goes something like this: “...
Fans of singer Mikey Spice will be happy to know that he has seemingly ended his hiatus and is ready to make a statement in a huge way. The multi-instrumentalist and consummate performer has a defining, digital musical experience in store for fans...
The family of Sugar Minott, the late reggae and dancehall legend who gave the world anthems such as Herbsman Hustling, No Vacancy, Mr DC, and A House is Not a Home, and who exposed many young artistes through his Youthman Promotions, will again...
If there are any expectations that classically trained, Seventh-day Adventist musician, desmond, will entertain any debate about his reason for releasing a reggae- and dancehall-infused project, forget it. He is living his best life, as he extols...
As the world races to find a vaccine that many hope will eradicate the dreaded COVID-19 disease, several singers and players of instruments have injected musical shots, in an attempt to help heal the virus-stricken world. Papa Michigan, of the...
