Conscious reggae singer Warrior King is beyond delighted to be one of the recipients of the Bob Marley Peace Award, which will be handed out to nine Jamaican artistes — one posthumously — at Tribute To The Reggae Legends, an annual stageshow which...
In the world of linear equations, a Popcaan and Chronic Law collaboration would be written something like this: 1Unruly + 1Law Boss = x. If you remain mystified over the fact that a man who calls himself ‘Unruly’ is the real bredren of one whose...
The thousands who made their way to Plantation Cove in St Ann on Saturday — braving never-ending lines of traffic — is testament to the enduring strength of reggae music and the overwhelming pulling power of legends Buju Banton and Beres Hammond....
Singer Alaine Laughton, known simply as Alaine, has been a constant in the music industry since moving back to Jamaica from the United States in 2004. One year later came her breakthrough hit, No Ordinary Love, a song that remains a big hit with...
In his synopsis of Sounds From Yaad, which is written in the programme, erudite writer and director, Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis declares: “From the onomatopoeic musicality of romantic overtures and social conversations to the creative cacophony of a...
A magnificent fireworks display heralded the year 2025 at Fireworks on the Waterfront in downtown Kingston, as children stared in fascination, couples kissed, and the selectors played the song which seems to have become the unofficial gospel anthem...
Reggae artiste, Duane Stephenson, was booked to perform twice on ‘the greatest one-night dancehall show on Earth’, Sting, and he said that both times were history-making events. The singer made his Sting début in 2008, the year of the highly...
Full-service event management company Clearsound Production Services is challenging the narrative by Supreme Promotions, the organisers of the dancehall show Sting that the event was postponed because the production company “pulled out of the event...
Away in a Manger, a song which tells of the lowly birth of Jesus, as chronicled in the Holy Bible, is one of the all-time favourite Christmas carols sung around the world during the Yuletide season. There’s something about Away in a Manger that...
It wasn’t until midnight that the up-and-coming acts, given the chance to shine on the Ghetto Splash platform, started taking the stage at the Waterhouse Mini Stadium in Drewsland. This marked the start of the annual, free event, which usually runs...
Co-founder of Ghetto Splash, Patrick Roberts, is commending the member of Parliament for West Central St Andrew, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, for stepping in to ensure that ‘Ghetto Splash’, the annual free stage show in his constituency, is...
Members of the entertainment fraternity are absorbing the shock of the passing of Robert Russell, the co-founder of Reggae Sumfest and organiser/co-producer of the now defunct Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. Russell, who was 76, died at the...
Genesis, the flagship event for the Jamaica Youth for Christ (JYFC), had its media launch at the Hyundai Jamaica Showroom in New Kingston on Tuesday, and the organisers are promising another fun-filled, uplifting and God-centred staging of the...
Jamaica had much reason to celebrate on December 4, when, at a meeting in Paraguay, a unanimous decision was taken to inscribe the Revival Pilgrimage To Watt Town on the Representative List Global List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Marked...
A passionate D’Angel, who is an advocate for protecting women and children from abuse, says that while she is horrified at the alleged beating of TikToker TJ and his girlfriend Moya, she is hoping that the viral video of the incident will bring...
As far as intriguing figures in the music industry go, Chris Blackwell is somewhere up there in the top 10. The founder of Island Records, which had its genesis in 1959 in Jamaica, Blackwell, who signed Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1973, at a...
For the approximately 300,000 people who are expected to ring in the new year at the Urban Development Corporation-staged ‘Fireworks on the Waterfront’, the promise from the organisers is that “it will be the biggest ever”. And with a drone show...
A 10-year-old boy from the Caribbean island of Antigua, with an enduring biblical name – Enoch (who walked with God and was translated that he would not see death) – is super excited to have teamed up with Jamaican gospel legend, Carlene Davis,...
Early in November, entertainer Singing Melody lost his son to a gunman’s bullet, and ever since, a song that he had recently recorded with his group LUST, and was loving, has become almost “distasteful”. Titled, Where are you now, the theme of...
It was lots of positive energy and fantastic musical vibrations from both the performers and the selectors at the inaugural Love Jamaica Music and Food Festival last Saturday at the UWI Bowl, Mona, St Andrew. It was a night on which a rising star...
Deejay Macka Diamond prayed for a hit song for 2024 and before the year closed out, the dancehall diva scored big with What Can Go So, a single featuring TikToker, Derrick Morgan. Macka is especially delighted about the timing of the success of the...
Words like “captivating”, incredible”, “emotional” and “nostalgic” have been used by Gramps Morgan of sibling group Morgan Heritage, to describe how he felt about performing with Buju Banton at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, last Sunday...
When Dr Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques stood to address the University of Technology (UTech) community last Friday inside the Alfred Sangster Auditorium, his first words were not his instantly recognisable, “Dutty, yeah!” Instead the Grammy Award...
On Friday, the Class of ‘76 of St Hugh’s High School paid tribute to one of their own, the late Karen Smith, by naming the music room at the school in her honour. Outfitted with shining new tiles, new windows, new doors and a brand new Yamaha...
Happiness, gratitude and “long overdue” were the themes in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s official coming to life of the Jamaica Entertainers and Creatives Insurance Plan. At a packed ceremony held at the offices of the Ministry of Culture, Gender...
