If ever a reggae band had a significant beginning and an even more powerful story, it is Chalice - a seven-member reggae group that began in 1980. Its origins are in Gibraltar Hill, St Mary. Two years later, their debut album, Blasted, produced two...
The openers for the first staging of One Night Stand at the Hope Zoo on Saturday night were the up-and-coming 8 band, who said that they felt privileged to have warmed the stage for veteran band Chalice. They also got great feedback from the...
Whether painting a beautiful landscape, doing the choreography for a dance, or writing the lyrics for the next hit single, a career in the creative industry is emotionally driven and time-consuming.For painter Afyah Prendergast, being able to create...
The launch of Rastafari Rootzfest 2018, which took place at the Bob Marley Museum on Hope Road on Wednesday, was filled with informative and passionate speeches, as well as captivating performances by reggae singers Richie Spice and Lila Ike - two...
Lila Ike describes her performance at last year's Rastafari Rootzfest as mediocre. Not because she did not have the best lyrics or sound, but she was overcome with anxiety."It wasn't my best performance - I allowed myself to get nervous. As a young...
One Third has re-emerged from the shadows of the entertainment scene with the launch of their five-track EP, The Journey."It is not a return. Never classify it that way because we never left; we were still doing music in one respect or another,...
With the Government's announcement of a ban on single-use plastic such as straws and styrofoam, many event professionals are taking on the challenge to develop more environmentally friendly setting for their parties.Local parties create a large...
Reggae singer Conkarah, gets inspiration randomly. Once he has his guitar to play the notes, he will create a rhythm, record it, then begin jotting down lyrics. But in addition to creating music that has afforded him the opportunity to travel the...
The choreography prepared for dancers as young as four years old on to those in their 20s, made for a delightful season of dance that ended with Sunday's performance of From the Arts with Love: Decennium.It was especially exciting for us - having a...
As a contestant in the Digicel Rising Stars competition, one of the weekly tasks for the contestants in the top 10 is campaigning for votes. For Diel, visiting secondary schools was part of his strategy to not only increase his chances of moving on...
Reggae artiste Bushman, who on Thursday night walked away with the Stepping Razor Award at the Peter Tosh Awards Gala, says he plans to use the accolade as motivation to continue making good music."When I entered the music industry 23 years ago, it...
Niambe McIntosh was five years old when her father, reggae icon Peter Tosh, was shot and killed. For her, his memory lives on in the stories her mother and nine siblings shared with her as a child."Being his youngest child, I don't have many...
The voices and instruments at the Revival Time Music Festival (RTMF) could be heard from the streets - blending secular sounds with the uplifting, rhythmic yet traditional revivalist message inside the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Sunday....
"How is it so difficult for the Government of Jamaica to build a place that is adequate to present reggae music as how it is supposed to be presented?" That is the question being asked by Mutabaruka, noted dub poet, musician and social commentator....
When Minister Joan Flemmings walked on to the stage of the first concert she was booked to perform at some 20 years ago, the music stopped and her microphone was switched off as she sang the first verse.At the time, she was the lead singer of Joan...
When Omar Reid, aka 'Reido', began working on the music video for his song Football Style, it took on a life of its own. What was originally supposed to be a three-minute video, evolved into a six-minute documentary merging sport and music.In...
Capleton's annual A St Mary Mi Come From was originally a dance, first held in 2000 at the Clemhard's Park in Port Maria before moving to the James Bond Beach in Oracabessa. It eventually outgrew the venue when it matured into a concert.According to...
Popular disc jockey and radio personality Nicole 'Nikki Z' Duhaney, has added her voice to the chorus to save the environment. With the Government set to ban single-use plastics and Styrofoam in 2019, she has become the ambassador for the Alligator...
The family of the late reggae great Peter Tosh has much to celebrate this month. Apart from it being the birthday of the family patriarch, last Thursday, the family welcomed home his youngest son who had been in the hospital for one and a half years...
Signalling to the disc jockey to turn up the volume, former Prime Minister Edward Seaga got to his feet and showed all present in Lecture Theatre 50 at the University of the Technology (UTech), Jamaica, that he can still 'buss a move' as he danced...
From the minute a woman takes an interest in the local music industry, she enters a male-dominated world. Industry professionals will say that for every five male recording artistes, there is one female, and over two-thirds of the performers on the...
"My body is intact ... my brain is still working, the only thing that is missing is the ability to see," Derrick McCarthy told The Gleaner.The former National Dance Theatre Company member, performance arts teacher, dance tutor and choreographer lost...
On the other side of the Atlantic, reggae, dub and dancehall have long been recognised as the foundation to the scenes that created underground rave, drum and bass and another genre known as grime in the United Kingdom.With that recognition, a few...
Chi Ching Ching was very busy this summer as he toured with Grammy award-winning artiste and good friend Sean Paul for the Rock Di World tour. The dancer-turned-recording artiste arrived on the scene in the early 2000s and caught the attention of...
There is a certain standard and quality of music that reggae and dancehall lovers expect - rhythm-driven tracks matched with lyrics that either speak out against injustices or highlight the artiste's journey and success.Agent Sasco is not...
