Vocalist Gramps Morgan of Morgan Heritage has revealed that the members of the family-group are itching to get back in the studio as a unit following their decision to venture into solo careers in 2008. The famous reggae...
The eyes of the world are focused on relief efforts for Haiti's earthquake survivors, even as activities on the social scene continue.Former president and United Nations special envoy for Haiti, Bill Clinton, greets an injured woman while touring...
Combining education and partying, promoters of the Bar-Raage series, Lawless Events and Alca Entertainment, are giving back to the partying community with the successful execution of the Bar-Raage Scholarship. Christmas Day...
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP):James Cameron may get to proclaim himself king of the distant moon Pandora at the Academy Awards.Cameron - who borrowed Leonardo DiCaprio's line from Titanic and declared himself "king...
Vivian 'Yabby You' Jackson, the visionary producer/singer, has died. His close friend and musician, Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace said Yabby You passed away last Tuesday in May Pen, Clarendon, from an aneurism. He was 63 years old.
Twenty-eight-year-old Executive Assistant Cindy Lyons was named the winner of the inaugural Pulse Caribbean Model Search (CMS) full-figure reality TV competition this month.In the highly contested finals, Lyons and the season's top seven full figure...
Western Bureau: While several acts were forced to shorten their sets because of the jam-packed line-up, predominantly happy faces were seen filing out of the Port Kaiser Sports Club in St Elizabeth when deejay Assassin brought the curtains down...
BALTIMORE (AP): Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years - and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim moustache and unruly mop of curly hair.However, scholars say Poe looked far more vigorous,...
The Jamaica Association of Vintage Artistes and Affiliates (JAVAA) kicks off what is expected to be another year of sublime entertainment events in The Gardens, The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, with their tribute, 'Bob Marley and Dennis Brown, the King...
Sean Kingston tried to keep his performance as Jamaican as possible, with a spin on the turntables while showing his love for Jamaica at the Coca-Cola Presents Sean Kingston in Concert at the National Golf Academy on Saturday night...
Tributes flowed freely on Saturday as family, friends and members of the art fraternity paid tribute to late theatrical icon Noel Douglas Vaz, who passed away peacefully on December 21, 2009.The Philip Sherlock Creative...
On March 15, Jamaica will have another illustrious musician in the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And this one is still alive to enjoy it. The other Jamaican, reggae icon Bob Marley, was inducted in 1994, many years after he had died...
Is your tongue golden? Well, if it's not you don't stand a chance to win the inaugural Golden Tongue Award (GTA) to be announced at this year's Poetry in Motion (PIM) show at Villa Gardens in Mandeville, Manchester, on February 28...
One of the biggest ironies of the annual Accompong Town Maroons' celebrations over the last several years is the influx of vendors selling non-traditional and imported wares. This anomaly has been discussed and written about ad nauseam, but there seems to be no end in sight.
The last and latest Jamaican music genre in the mini-exhibition on Jamaican music is dancehall. It is written that "perhaps the most controversial and polarising genre of Jamaican music, dancehall, currently dominates the island's musical landscape".
With Bacchanal Jamaica set to start in a few weeks, the organisers have taken the economic conditions into consideration to make the event affordable for patrons.Under the theme 'Treasures', the 10-week season will begin on...
It took two calendar days for the Jamaican delegation which Aisha Davis was a part of to reach Singapore. Leaving Jamaica on Sunday, December 7, the team, including Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Olivia Grange and sprinters Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell and Dexter Lee, got to the Asian country on Tuesday morning.
Herbie Miller stands near the middle of Jamaica's musical chronology in words, images and artefacts along the side of a partition at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, and said "I like to call this our 22 yards of Jamaican music history."
Aisha Davis' hair is more up this year than it was in 2009. She snipped her locks, added some colour, and with a new look and renewed outlook she is looking forward to making 2010 better than 2009 was.
Before he signed with a major American record company and became the 'Grammy Kid', Shabba Ranks was king of the Jamaican dancehall circuit and he earned that title by racking up a number of hit songs in the 1980s and early...
NEW YORK (AP):Her career is only six years old, but Fantasia is already in need of a comeback.The former American Idol champ has endured tough times of late.
