Family, extended family and well-wishers gathered at St Margaret’s Church in Liguanea on Thursday for a royal send-off for Leonie Evadne Forbes, a woman who was honoured as “first and foremost a queen … full stop”. There seemed to be hardly enough...
Reggae artiste Blvk H3ro is looking forward to making the most of the Grammy red carpet when he arrives at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles – with his Jamaica flag – on February 5 next year. It is actually something he sang about in one of his...
With the announcement on Tuesday afternoon that albums by Shaggy, Sean Paul, Koffee, Protoje and Kabaka Pyramid all received Grammy nominations, Grammy-nominated producer and music executive Cristy Barber is shouting loud and proud. The five reggae...
Grammy season gets into high gear today with the announcement of the nominees at noon eastern time on Live.GRAMMY.com and the Recording Academy’s social channels. Grammy watchers locally are focused on the Best Reggae Album category, in which 67...
God-fearing is perhaps not the first, nor the second, nor even the third adjective of choice which onlookers would use to describe Isaiah Laing, the ex-policeman and the promoter of ‘the greatest one-night reggae and dancehall show on Earth, Sting...
Tribute are pouring in for veteran Jamaican keyboardist Tyrone Downie, who rose to prominence as a member of Bob Marley and The Wailers. Downie, who was reportedly ailing, passed away last Saturday at hospital in Jamaica, his partner, Bernadine...
Founding member of Third World band, Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore, has memories of theatre icon and pioneering broadcaster Leonie Forbes visiting his house when he was a child because she was friends with his mother, musician and broadcaster Rita Coore....
Reggae singer Sevana this morning pleaded guilty to a charge of death by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on November 17. Sevana, whose real name is Anna Blake, appeared before Justice Courtney Daye at the Westmoreland Circuit Court for the...
Reggae and hip hop artiste, Kali Ranks, is brimming with enthusiasm at the upcoming release of the album Tropical House Cruises to Jamaica: The Asian Edition. When the A-list heavy Contractor Music Group and Triple Century Records production...
Even as Kareem ‘Remus’ Burrell navigates the ins and outs of the music industry and secures his place as a producer of merit, he is not afraid to wholeheartedly embrace the great legacy of his late father, Phillip ‘Fatis’ Burrell. He continues to...
On National Heroes Day, Rastafarian reggae artiste Sizzla, dressed in a smart, well-fitting three-piece suit, came with a repatriation and reparation message to present to Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie I....
It was definitely a case of ‘better a little late than never’ for Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph on Heroes Day, when she showed up at King’s House to be officially conferred with the Order of Jamaica (OJ), a title which now gives her...
When Dr Ephraim Martin, president of Martin’s International, founder of the International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) executive producer of the Chicago Music Awards and chair of the Chicago-based Black Heroes Matter coalition, steps up...
Stating that “a systemic failure has occurred”, executive director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Cordell Green, is of the opinion that the gatekeepers for radio and television should be embarrassed that the regulatory body has...
By the end of the concert at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) last Sunday, a few things were accepted as fact: on that great resurrection morn, Karen Smith will be the leader of the ‘Jerusalem Choir’; the spirit...
Top of the wish list for Sherene Harris, principal of Baxter’s Mountain Primary School in St Mary, is a literacy room for her students, who range from grades one to six. That wish is very closely followed by Internet connection, computers and...
When the members of the legendary Toots and the Maytals band announced last December that they would be changing their name to oBessa, they vowed to pull out all the stops by “bringing the best of Toots and the Maytals experience and unveiling...
When foundation gospel singer and musician, Sam Wisdom, was told that he was selected for special honour at this year’s Sterling Gospel Music Awards, he admitted that his first feeling was “a little annoyance”. And that stemmed from the fact that...
Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, musician and producer Roy ‘Gramps’ Morgan is always eager to share new music with his fans, and today he is giving them a special treat, a six-track EP. However, Gramps is playing games, as he has yet to...
King of Reggae Bob Marley is no longer number one on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. After holding on to pole position for a staggering, unbroken two years and seven months, the album Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers has...
Acclaimed musician Noel Browne, one of the five musical Browne brothers, which also includes Glen, Danny and Clevie, as well as the late Dalton, passed away in Wolverhampton, England, on the weekend. His death comes close to the two-year...
This year, September to be precise, marks three decades in the life of the Sunbeam Early Childhood Development Centre, a pre-school and kindergarten institution run by the Meadowvale Seventh Day Adventist church. It is also the 30th anniversary for...
The funeral service for Horace ‘Culture Dan’ Clarke, the Rastafarian entertainer and Twelve Tribes of Israel soldier, who was gunned at Sizzla Kalonji’s Judgement Yard in August Town on June 19, will be held on Sunday. Culture Dan’s sister, Colleen...
King of Comedy Oliver Samuels has a new status – viral – and this time it’s definitely not because of one of his numerous side-splitting jokes. Oliver’s video, in which he questioned Jamaica’s allegiance to the British monarchy and aired his...
