The theme for this year’s heritage series, Grounation, sounds rather lofty: ‘Music and Reasoning in Working Class Culture: Implications for Governance and Constitutional Reform’, but Herbie Miller, director of the Jamaica Music Museum, which stages...
As the February 14 opening of the Bob Marley: One Love movie nears, and the number of premieres increase – the third one was held in Los Angeles on Tuesday, following those in Jamaica on January 23 and London on January 30 – the producers are...
The third time’s the Grammy charm for reggae singer Julian Marley. On his third nomination, Julian Marley won his first Grammy award. The album Colors of Royal, a project in collaboration with Alexx Antaeus, was announced as the winner in the Best...
King of the Dancehall, Beenie Man, will be represented by his manager at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony in the United States as the dancehall icon’s ongoing visa woes prohibit him from travelling. Beenie Man’s album Simma is one of five...
Kingston Night Market, held every Tuesday on Hillcrest Avenue, is a vibe. A meeting place for the sellers and buyers of exquisite Jamaican art and craft; and lovers of musical melodies, food and culture, the last staging also incorporated a...
What is the worth in dollars and cents of a Grammy award, the golden gramophone that is handed out each year at music's biggest night? Some websites quote a grand total of US$15 (excluding the workmanship) and note that it is "made with a unique...
For the 66th Grammy Award, five albums, namely Born For Greatness (Buju Banton); Simma (Beenie Man); Cali Roots Riddim 2023 (Collie Buddz); No Destroyer (Burning Spear); and Colors of Royal (Julian Marley and Antaeus) are vying for the coveted gong...
The potent message of ‘One Love’ and the divinity embodied in reggae music was the theme of the sermon from ‘Reggae Pastor’, the Rev’d Al Miller, at the launch of Reggae Month at his reggae-loving church, Fellowship Tabernacle, on Sunday morning....
“ The wickedest time when rain start fall, the girl dem start fi bawl, who nah send telegram, dem a make phone call. Yeah.” “ Promoter and him idrin juss a laugh. How dem laugh? Tra la la la la la la la laaa.” The Real Rock ‘riddim’ was the star...
Words like “epic” and “huge” were used by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange to describe Bob Marley: One Love, the Paramount Pictures film on the life of the reggae icon that had its premiere at the Carib 5...
There are few spaces where royalty in the form of Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths, King of Comedy Oliver Samuels and Queen Ifrica can all be marked present on a Sunday evening, simply because they desire to be entertained by some soothing soul,...
Veteran artiste Petro Metro early Sunday morning paused during his set to pay tribute to ailing singer Cocoa Tea, while performing at Rebel salute in Priory St Ann. Metro, who performed in a blistering veterans segment which saw the likes of Linval...
Members of the entertainment fraternity did not come out to pay their last respects to one of their own, Robert Lee Malcolm, also known as ‘Gully Bop’, on Sunday at his thanksgiving service at the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre on the grounds of the...
Today, the Money-O! goddess, Charmaine Munroe, better known as Macka Diamond, makes another trip around the sun and she is in celebration mode. Still feeling the energy from her giant-sized Sting performance a little more than two weeks ago, the...
The thanksgiving service for the Body Specialist, Gully Bop, will be held at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Hope Road on Sunday, January 14. His United Kingdom-based manager, Jackie Hunte, shared that the service will get underway at...
The grim reaper passed through the entertainment industry throughout 2023, grabbing some of the finest and most honourable creatives of all ages. Today, we pause to pay tribute to and celebrate the lives of those who have left behind a great and...
The family of veteran reggae singer, Colvin 'Cocoa Tea' Scott is debunking tales of the entertainer's passing. "Yes, Cocoa Tea is in hospital, but he is very much alive," his wife Malvia Scott told The Gleaner, but did not give any details...
UDC General Counsel and Chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) Fireworks Committee, Ewan Simpson, says that this year’s new layout which saw the stage at the annual Fireworks Festival more centrally located, instead of at one end of...
The 2023 staging of the annual New Year’s Eve Fireworks on the Waterfront festival by the Urban Development Corporation took on special significance this year as the organisers celebrated the event’s 20th occurrence. The new and improved stage was...
Dr Michael Abrhams predicts that the 2023 Year in Review will be like “one big, dutty, Netflix horror movie”. The gynaecologist, who is also a popular columnist and has a side hustle as a stand-up comic, was on stage at Comedy Cook-Up at The...
Rastafarian entertainer Anthony B has gone from being fully excited about being on Sting 2023 – where he was billed as one of the celebrated 10 Giants – to experiencing total disillusionment about “the greatest one night dancehall show on Earth”....
President of the Jamaica Federation of Musicians and Affiliates Union (JFMAU), Lowell Lawson, says there is no labour shortage within the entertainment industry. Lawson was reacting to the recent sounds of labour shortage in the island and the...
Sting founder Isaiah Laing is somehow delving deep into his spirituality to come to terms with the headline-capturing, onstage fight that prematurely ended the 2023 iteration of Sting. A show that has built its reputation on clashes, Sting has,...
Dancehall giant Beenie Man loves Chinese cuisine and his favourite Chinese dish is shrimp fried rice – but that’s not what he sings about on track number four of his Grammy-nominated album, Simma. Instead, the song with the distinct Chinese flavour...
On December 26, 2004, the first Christmas Comedy Cook-Up was staged at the Wyndham Hotel in New Kingston and it was a roaring success. Twenty years later, the venue has changed, but the rollicking, side-splitting laughter has remained the same. The...
