Wherever theatre people converge, the atmosphere is usually quite festive, and that was definitely the case at the launch of Sounds From Yaad, a celebration of Jamaican and Caribbean culture and live theatre, powered by the creative force that is...
Christmas is Better With You is the title of the just-released Yuletide song from Tessanne Chin, and it is special to her for many reasons, her children being one. “It is wonderful to see Christmas through their eyes, and this song is a dedication...
Back in the day, she was the trendsetting dancehall ‘It’ girl who swiftly rose through the ranks to become the tantalising ‘Queen of the Pack’. In the Channel 4/HBO mini-series, Get Millie Black, Patra stars as Hit Girl, the powerful owner of a...
Get Millie Black is, essentially, a multi-layered detective story teeming with plots, subplots, and counterplots. Booker Prize-winning writer Marlon James digs into the underbelly of Jamaican society, exposing the stark and the toxic while...
Veteran Reggae singer Everton Blender is thankful to be celebrating his three-score-and-10 years birthday, a milestone that has been fraught with challenges and a bit of intrigue but also filled with many triumphs. Currently residing in Florida,...
Marcia Griffiths has recorded more songs than she can possibly remember, and while it is no easy task for her to choose which one has been the soundtrack to her life, she has many favourites, both as a solo artiste and doing duets with some of...
During the era of ska music, Jamaica was blessed with a pioneering singer named Millicent ‘Patsy’ Todd, aka Pata-Pata Patsy, who was known for her great voice as well as her trendsetting style and fashion. “Diana Ross had nothing on this poor...
Five-time JUNO Awards winner Exco Levi is hoping that there is no truth to information circulating online that Canada’s most prestigious music honour is set to chop the reggae category for 2025. Multiple sources have quoted a letter from the...
From winning the first Tastee Talent Contest in 1979 as a precocious pre-teen to her imminent steps across the immaculate lawns of King’s House where she will pick up the Order of Distinction on National Heroes Day, Nadine Sutherland’s journey has...
It is no secret that broadcaster, writer and historian, Roger Steffens, is the owner of a massive reggae archive, which houses the largest collection of Bob Marley artefacts in the world. Twenty-three years ago, the Institute of Jamaica made an...
Four days after the assassination attempt on the life of former US president, Donald Trump, Bodyguard sound system seized the opportunity to take clash culture to daring new heights and created a “bad, bad, situation” with an instantly iconic...
Edward O’Sullivan Lee Junior, better known as ‘Striker Jr’, ‘Young Striker’ or ‘Little Striker’, is only too aware of the wealth of history that comes with his name. As the son of legendary producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee aka ‘Di Gorgon’, he has huge...
Father of seven, Oneil Darby once had to put his deejaying career on hold to be both father and mother to two of his daughters, but, decades later, he has absolutely no regrets and would not think twice about making the very same decision. Darby,...
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die, the fourth instalment in Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys franchise, hit theatres last Friday, and as exciting as the film is anticipated to be, of equal import is the fact that Smith has returned to the music scene...
Spragga Benz “came, saw and conquered” definitely sounds clichéd , but that’s exactly what the veteran dancehall entertainer and actor did when he performed at the Guinness Sounds of Greatness event on Thursday at Usain Bolt’s Tracks and Records....
It was just a few months ago that singer Nigy Boy literally rocked the continent and ensnared females across the globe with a honeyed infidelity message that they all seemed to hug up: “Caring is sharing”. The viral single Continent, on Rvssian’s...
A film with a fascinating title — Raised by Goats — now has the distinction of being the first Jamaican project to be selected for the La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Francais programme to be held at the 77th staging of the prestigious Festival De...
Thirty-six years ago, a young Beres Hammond released the song Let Me Help You Smile, a single which fans have dubbed “a real classic” but which has rarely been played. Fast-forward to the present and the story is being retold in the best way...
Following the briefest of conversations with plus-size model, Tricia Campbell, one thing becomes apparent, she is big on God. Despite that, however, it was still a bit startling to hear how she snugly fit in the divine and her meeting with...
The estate of Bob Marley is among a list of powerful music industry entities and persons who are pushing back against the irresponsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) which, they say, has the potential to be “catastrophic” and could “degrade...
When legendary musician, Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis was informed that he had been selected to receive the prestigious Reggae Gold Award at the end of February, he was excited, but, alas, he was unable to travel to Jamaica to collect it in person because...
Some things are not that hard to ‘maths out’. For example, if a producer gives Shuga a rhythm that is particularly inspiring and she has some hard truths to tell, she’s going to chat. And that’s exactly what she has done on her latest single, The...
When Lisa Evers, a two-time EMMY Award winner and FOX5 TV news reporter/host of Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers, focuses the cameras on a story, one can be sure that it will definitely be well worth the time to watch. A few years ago, Evers...
