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...
Fifth form student at St Andrew High School for Girls, Zarah Johnston, has chosen a non-traditional career path, and she couldn’t be more passionate about it. For as long as she can recall, the aspiring actress has yearned to be on television. The...
‘Sterling 8 will be great’ was the unwritten tag line for the eighth staging of the annual gospel music awards, and the founder, Basillia Barnaby-Cuff, her team and the nominees literally spoke that into being. Last Saturday night’s ceremony was a...
Multiple Sterling Gospel Music Award nominee, Perpetual Sounds of Praise, will on Saturday evening be celebrated by the awards body as one of the legends who have “spent more than 20 years shaping and influencing the gospel industry”. The event...
Winning the prestigious Marcus Garvey Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts for 13 consecutive years must be nice. And, for the well-decorated Ardenne High School, this record win has nothing to do with any ‘Lady Luck’ smiling down on them,...
In his very personal introduction of secular-turned-gospel singer Junior Tucker at the birthday celebration and album launch for the entertainer’s Journey ... The Best of Junior Tucker at Swallowfield Chapel last Saturday, music industry veteran...
Amid loud whispers that the gospel fraternity has seemingly abandoned Lt Stitchie in his time of greatest need, gospel singer and ‘Minista’ Paul Blake, says that this is not so. During his performance on Saturday night at the Swallowfield Chapel in...
The event last Saturday night at Swallowfield Chapel was advertised as an album launch and birthday celebration, but with a line-up featuring the likes of Junior Tucker, Papa San, Carlene Davis and Paul Blake it had no choice but to take on big...
Veteran radio host Rev VB and his renowned Blessing Plan Ministry was like an institution in Jamaica, starting in the ‘80s and continuing into the 2000s. Upon his passing in December last year, many persons testified of the impact of the gospel...
Musician Paul Kastick has drummed his way into some of the biggest festivals across the globe, earning for himself a name that is as big as that of some of the celebrity singers with whom he has worked. It is not surprising that Kastick has...
When Merritone Disco’s Monte Blake receives his distinguished Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from The University of the West Indies, Mona campus later this year, he will be awarded “for his pioneering work in music” and considering his trailblazing...
The Mortimer-hungry crowd willingly made the mid-week trek “up a Skyline” in Jack’s Hill to hear their favourite artiste deliver an intimate live acoustic set at The Listener’s Club, and it was a full house that savoured the 90 minutes of musical...
