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...
If you had difficulties getting through to practitioners in the entertainment and creative sector on Tuesday evening, chances are that they were at the offices of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport on Trafalgar Road, to...
Sensational, Chris Brown’s Afrobeats song, featuring Davido and Lojay, has been nominated for the Best African Music Performance at the upcoming Grammy Awards. This is not surprising, given that the song from his 11th studio album 11:11, entered...
With one Grammy nomination already under their belt for their 2020 album, One World, reggae group The Wailers was quite excited to have their name called again on Friday morning when the nominees for the 67th annual awards were announced. They...
Nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Award will be announced today and, as usual, we made a link with one brave music industry person who was willing to go out on a limb and pick five albums which he thinks will get nominated in the Best Reggae...
Surprise guest artistes in the form of Beres Hammond, Buju Banton, Damian Marley and Stephen Marley walking on stage to salute the Queen of Reggae, Marcia Griffiths, was definitely an out-of-this-world experience for patrons on a night that was...
Popular Michael Jackson impersonator, Nixon Hall, is back on the entertainment scene, having lost the extra body weight which was a barrier to him performing the slick, sleek, dance moves made popular by the late, pencil-slim entertainer. “I was...
Despite predictions of rain which caused other events to be postponed last weekend, great vibes, fantastic performances, delicious food, lots of prizes – even including $200,00 in cash, courtesy of Swift Car Rentals ambassador, Emperor L A Lewis –...
In separate interviews with The Gleaner, both Rodney ‘Bounty Killer’ Price and Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis expressed the view that receiving an Order of Distinction from the Government of Jamaica meant more to them than a Grammy or any other award. “I...
