A little-known fact in dancehall circles is that in the early 1990s, singjay Mr Easy was signed to multi-Grammy Award-winning music icon Quincy Jones’ Quest Record label. It was a move he hoped would garner him commercial success and catapult him...
Dancehall music fans in New York are salivating about the opportunity they will have in a few months to see one of dancehall’s most influential artistes, Vybz Kartel in the flesh, as he prepares for Freedom Street, his first performance on Jamaican...
NEW YORK: Nigy Boy is one of the hot, trending dancehall singers, who has been blazing the charts with his recently released, global hit single, Continent. The song has got more than a million views on YouTube in eight days and last Friday was...
NEW YORK: The Chance, an iconic concert and theatre complex located in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, and which has hosted reggae events since the late 1970s, closed its doors on Sunday, October 29. The death of owner Frank Pallett (who passed...
NEW YORK: It’s the end of an era for WVIP 93.5 FM, New York, the station that served the diaspora community for almost 40 years. Jamaican and Caribbean programmes on the dial went silent on Thursday, August 31, when the last programme ended at...
Jamaican-born, New York-based concert promoter George Crooks’ mantra is to make people happy. His success as an event promoter is not by chance, but the result of hard work, planning, foresight, and executing a well-thought-out marketing strategy...
“My sister Beverley! This is such a moment!” was how Reggae Queen Marcia Griffiths greeted singer Beverley Kelso on stage at the Westchester Reggae Festival in Portchester, NY, last weekend, moments after she had charmed fans with her impressive...
NY: Reports are that Steely and Clevie Productions Ltd, Cleveland Browne and the estate of Wycliffe ‘Steely’ Johnson, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in California Central District Court against Warner Music, Universal Music Latin...
NEW YORK: Jamaica-born, New York-based Kevin Smith and wife, Ann Marie, are beaming with pride and giving God thanks, following the ground-breaking achievement of their daughter, Janessa. The 11-year-old landed on the Christian Billboard chart...
Pelham, NY: As part of the Signature Society’s mission to promote Brand Jamaica and ‘the islands’ culture in the Jamaican diaspora New York, the organisation has put together an impressive showcase billed ‘Showtime,’ at the Manor Club in Pelham,...
