“Super privileged” is how Mexican reggae band Antidoping described the feeling of being in Jamaica to perform on the Bob Marley 80th birthday tribute at Emancipation Park last Thursday. It was the first visit for the band which does “reggae mixed...
In what seems like another lifetime, Jeremy Meeks was usually identified as a gangster and a convict. Then, in 2014, when his mugshot went viral, he became the “hot felon”, and after leaving prison, a whole new world opened up to embrace him. Soon...
A triumphant celebration of the life and times of reggae’s beloved Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis Emmanuel Brown, unfolded seamlessly last Saturday at the amphitheatre at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. It was a last-...
Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) — Various Artistes was the non-surprising winner in the Best Reggae Album category at the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. The 10-track album contains songs from Bob...
January has come and gone and it was certainly no boring month. Where to start? Okay, so Dancehall Queen Spice planned a school tour, but harsh criticisms from the National Parent-Teachers Association Jamaica (NPTAJ) and some church people caused...
Last Tuesday night was one of those defining moments in the career of singer Auraiya Hope. It was the moment of her EP launch, Chronicles of Love Vol. 2, at Footprints Café on Belmont Road, and she delivered the goods. From whispers of “Mi nah...
It’s Grammy season, but this year the wildfires in Los Angeles have made a difference, as there will be no pre-Grammy parties from the major labels, and the focus is on “raising additional funds to support wildfire relief efforts and honouring the...
When mega producer Donovan Germain attends the second annual Reggae Genealogy Music Festival in South Florida next Sunday, he will not only be a guest; he will be an honoree. The veteran producer is among three Jamaican music icons who will be the...
Last Wednesday, Coveside Concerts lifted the veil on its four-month-long 2025 season, which, by all indications, has the right ingredients for a successful staging. Between February and May, the Plantation Cove venue in Priory, St Ann, will play...
On the morning of January 22, about 10:55, Professor Kwame Dawes, was properly pinned and sashed by acting Governor General Steadman Fuller, at a ceremony of investiture at King’s House. Dawes, Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, started...
For close to 12 hours – from 7 p.m. on Saturday evening to 6:44 on Sunday morning – the 31st edition of Rebel Salute, unfolded at Plantation Cove in St Ann, featuring 23 acts, not including the few who got a brief ‘call-up’ from friends. This...
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...
