What many thought was impossible has come through. Grammy Award-winning reggae and dancehall artiste Buju Banton is now in the United States of America, having been granted a visa to enter that country. Buju Banton was deported to Jamaica on...
The first line of his bio states: “Glenroy Anthony Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica on May 1, 1945, and raised in St Ann”, and it goes on to give an interesting and detailed history of the singer who thousands have come to know and love as Ernie...
On Tuesday night, the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in Kingston was festive in every sense of the word when a bustling Kingston Night Market met International Jazz Day and locked the city. Vendors and an overflowing house of patrons...
Comar ‘Frankie Music’ Campbell is a name that has become a heavyweight in the music industry in a relatively short time. The Grammy- and Billboard Award-winning producer and manager is acknowledged as a visionary within music circles, and over the...
At least one music marketer is championing the strong link between music and sports as superstar cricketer and reggae artiste Chris Gayle and eight-time Olympic gold medallist and music producer Usain Bolt have been named as ambassadors for the ICC...
The reggae-loving world was shaken to its core in 2022 when two members of the iconic trio, the Mighty Diamonds, died within days of each other. Lead vocalist Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw, 67, was killed on March 29 in a drive-by shooting in his St...
‘King of Fyah’, Capleton arrived at the Newport Commercial Centre in the early hours of Sunday morning blazing with an unquenchable energy to “bun out dutty wickedness and wicked man”, while sending out an equally impassioned plea for respect, as...
Producer Kareem ‘Remus’ Burrell is living his dream. He continues to trod in the impressive footsteps of late veteran producer Phillip ‘Fatis’ Burrell, of the renowned Xterminator label, even as he seeks to make his own mark on the music industry....
December 9 will make 30 years since Rastafarian reggae singer Garnett Silk made his transition, and two days ago – April 2 – was the 58th anniversary of his birth. In tribute to Garnett, Rub-A-Dub Tuesdays hailed him with a segment led by veteran...
The Musgrave Medal Award ceremony held at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The University of the West Indies, Mona, last Wednesday represented the passing of the baton, and as Gold recipient Dr Vivian Crawford said, “I feel...
After a nearly four-hour-long Jerusalem concert on the grounds of the Liguanea Club in New Kingston, Christians seemed just ready to party when Nigerian singer Victor Thompson brought the curtains down at 11:50 p.m. on Saturday with his mega hit...
A fusion of rum and reggae is how Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett described the 2024 iteration of the Jamaica Rum Festival, which had its launch at The Ruins, UWI, Mona on Wednesday, with the big announcement that the event has forged a...
A fabulous celebration of women of varying ages, shapes, colours and form – united through natural sisterhood, and also by being threads in the fabric of the entertainment industry– unfolded inside the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium on Sunday evening...
Tributes are pouring in even as the theatre world reels from the shock death of retired educator Brian Heap. The former head of the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, Heap, 73, had...
Popular Nigerian gospel singer, Victor Thompson, is the headline act for the Jerusalem concert scheduled to take place at the Liguanea Club, New Kingston, on March 30, and he is promising Jamaicans that it will be a “mind-blowing” experience....
Following Tuesday’s government walkout of Gordon House led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, during Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s contribution to the Budget Debate, members of the entertainment industry have weighed in on the matter. In a...
With Thursday’s ruling by the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council that the murder conviction of Vybz Kartel be set aside and the case sent back to the Court of Appeal in Jamaica for a retrial to be considered, Isat Buchanan, lawyer...
Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, while happy that his client Shawn Campbell is “no longer a convict”, has expressed his dissatisfaction that it took the Privy Council in England to quash the murder conviction of Campbell, dancehall star Adidja Palmer...
Dancehall diva Gaza Kim has moved on with her life and is happy to forgive – if not totally forget – a much-publicised incident which happened to her with alleged members of Vybz Kartel’s high-profile Portmore Empire/Gaza camp. As Kartel and the...
Sunday was celebrated as Mothers Day in the UK, and one picture which has attracted a lot of attention is that of Kate Middleton – the wife of heir to the throne, Prince William – posing in skinny jeans and boots with her three children by her...
In six days time, incarcerated dancehall deejay, Vybz Kartel, will know whether or not he will be a free man. Next Thursday, one month after the February 14 hearing into his case by the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, Kartel will know...
Independent dancehall artistes, Bay-C from popular dancehall group TOK and Billboard chart-topping artiste Xyclone, lived up to the title of their project when they dislodged reggae icon, Bob Marley, from atop the USA iTunes Reggae Albums Chart on...
Who won the Jamaica Local Government Elections was the $64,000 question of the week. And, with the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) still counting, and both the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the Opposition People’s National Party claiming...
Ghanaian Afropop, dancehall and reggae artiste Stonebwoy is devastated by the death of Peetah Morgan, lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning sibling reggae group Morgan Heritage, but he is doing his best “to look on the brighter side”. Peetah...
The music fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the sudden death of Morgan Heritage lead singer Peetah, who passed away on Sunday. Social media is awash with tributes and expressions of disbelief that the life of the 46-year-old...
