DUBPLATES ARE the known secret weapons of sound systems across the world, especially as it relates to clash competitions, but it can be challenging to get the real high-power, authentic materials to ‘kill a sound’. Selectors rely on customised...
BUSY SIGNAL was recently named Dancehall Artiste of the Decade by the International Reggae and World Music Awards organisers. The deejay, who has religiously contributed to the growth of dancehall while exploring other genres, has hailed the...
His campaign to market new music to the Jamaican audience got off to an uneventful start due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but Canada-based reggae artiste Davaki MyLaud said that he wants to rekindle a relationship with the land of his birth. He was...
The outbreak of the coronavirus has forced the world into uncertainty, and news about the number of cases and deaths feels relentless. In Jamaica, an island known for myriad entertainment options, the citizens are adjusting to the silence or...
Despite not being able to visit the area, reggae singer-songwriter Jahmiel on Wednesday donated snacks, non-perishable food, diapers, and other needed supplies to communities in Bull Bay. The area was declared a quarantine zone by Prime Minister...
There is no specific season or reason for soca music, said Erphaan Alves, who has been pushing the ‘No Seasons’ campaign that promotes the release of soca music all year round. A true ambassador of the genre of his birthplace, Trinidad and Tobago,...
DOROTHY CUNNINGHAM, Deon Silvera, Audrey Reid, Dahlia Harris and the late Elva Ruddock are just four of many women who Christopher ‘Johnny’ Daley, the frontman of Johnny Live Productions, continues to ‘big up’. “It’s not just about celebrating...
Theatre is a potent art which combines light, sound and action and connects them with mind, body and soul to create intense expressions. And, no two shows are alike, but all come to life by the spaces and places in which they are presented. In...
BRONX-RAISED SINGJAY, HOOD Celebrityy, has made a statement that she wants to ‘run di road’ with her new release sporting that title. The Walking Trophy entertainer said she was always confident her recording career was going to take off, “because...
“SCIKRON ENTERTAINMENT Big Yard Studios, how may I help you?” says the man who answers the phone at one of the busiest recording spaces in Kingston. On making a query if the studio was taking any bookings at this time, he quickly informed that “...
Amazing things are happening amid the pandemic the world is experiencing. That is the message entertainers Alaine and Tessanne Chin want to send, and they highlight two Jamaican teenagers who have taken on the challenge to compete in the televised...
Dancehall deejays Rygin King and Elephant Man have pledged to stay in self-quarantine for the next 14 days and are imploring that other entertainers, and persons travelling overseas, exercise social responsibility during the global pandemic. Both...
Dancehall entertainer-songwriter KipRich says that he has been busy reinventing himself. KipRich, who entered the local music scene with dramatic lyrical content, told The Gleaner, “A lot has changed.” “Is modern times now, so you have to come...
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Carnival in Jamaica will be rescheduled until October 2020. The road parade is now set for Sunday, October 25, which, according to the chairman of the Sports and Entertainment Committee, Kamal Bankay, should not...
Lyrics of the transform-ational track We Are The World, recorded by pop icon Michael Jackson, his siblings and the remaining USA for Africa artistes, such as Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, and Cyndi Lauper, come to mind in this time of...
Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell is an acclaimed music producer, audio engineer, musician, songwriter, and marketing strategist – widely respected as one of the entertainment industry’s most vocal characters. He has invested time into creating an impressive...
Organisers of major music festivals across the world are not the only ones postponing or cancelling events, or at least considering that course of action. Fantasy Mecca Fêtes, the owners of the Frenchmen, have cancelled all Easter Weekend and...
The song A Whole New World may not have a thing to do with this artiste, still anyone who is a fan of Disney’s 1992 animated film Aladdin would be familiar with, “a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view, no one can tell us no or where to...
He’s the dancehall entertainer that deejayed, “you want a proper fix, call me” and a celebrity father who has been put on the spot more than once by persons questioning his role in his children’s lives. But Beenie Man has never allowed criticism to...
It has been a meteoric year for Tessellated. The Kingston-born musician, like the shooting star that he is, soared with the Pine and Ginger collaboration with Amindi and Valleyz. He also co-produced the track, which is nearing six million views on...
The Jamaica Rum Festival, sponsored by Appleton Estate, is gradually earning bragging rights for being a must-attend event in the Caribbean, and, indeed, the world. Culinary delights and limitless carafes of rum to savour aside, day one of the second annual staging of the...
An iconic character of the ‘80s and ‘90s dancehall scene, Carlene Smith or – as she is popularly known, Dancehall Queen Carlene – has embarked on a major project for the leap year. Alongside Whirlwind Entertainment International, founded by Michael...
“Them say life come with pain, sunshine after the rain,” are the lyrics that start the chorus of Quada’s one-month-old single, Pain. It serves as a testimony to what is happening in his life, said the hardcore dancehall entertainer in a short yet...
The instrumentalists of the Fusion Band play an uplifting, vivacious set that has its audience grooving non-stop at SR Live on the weekend, inviting passers-by on Greenvale Road, off Molynes Road, into a whole new world of reggae music. And there...
It appears that dancehall entertainer Unknown Gringo is not the only person inspired by the popular riddim and catchphrase of Skillibeng’s hit, Brik Pon Brik. Thirteen-year-old Julanda Frater says what was just her word play has turned into a...
