LAS VEGAS (AP): Usher and long-time partner Jenn Goicoechea obtained a marriage licence last week in Las Vegas, just days ahead of the 45-year-old R...
WESTERN BUREAU: Global cultural tourism demand is likely to surge at a rate of 14.4 per cent over the next 10 years, taking its market size to US$22.7 billion by 2033, according to Jamaica’s tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett. Bartlett, in a speech...
NEW YORK (AP): Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, Lenny Kravitz, the late Sinéad O’Connor, Kool and the Gang, and heavy metal’s so-called Prince of Darkness are some the 2024 nominees for induction into the Rock...
Jamaican composer, arranger, producer and musician Clive Hunt is excited about one of recent ventures – co-producing and arranging a new cover of Bob Marley’s One Love with German reggae singer, songwriter and record producer Patrice. The cover...
The Rex Nettleford Foundation will once again present ‘Remembering Rex’ in tribute to late vice-chancellor and National Dance Theatre Company co-founder Professor Rex Nettleford. The event, which will take place February 13 at its customary venue...
It was a few minutes to 11 a.m. last Wednesday when Denyque was sent a WhatsApp message checking on her state of readiness for an 11 o’clock interview. Her sassy response came back fast and unpretentious: “Born ready.” As Gen Z-ers would say in...
Arguably, not since Jimmy Cliff’s 1972 debut in The Harder They Come classic has there been a production filmed in Jamaica that has captured the imagination of not only the citizens of this fair isle of wood and water but that of the entire world....
LAS VEGAS (AP): In a short film shown at the end of the Super Bowl half-time performer news conference, the show’s headliner Usher comes up missing. The singer’s sudden absence prompts instant panic from his friends, including Ludacris, Lil Jon and...
Rastafarian reggae singer Kabaka Pyramid is that people person who is only too aware of his responsibility as an ambassador of the music, whether in Jamaica or abroad. And he gives off the vibes of being just at home striding the halls of academia...
As he gears up to grace the main stage at the upcoming Lost in Time Festival on February 24, Ras-I is once again calling for the public to embrace the joy of reggae music. The self-proclaimed ‘Kingman’, who last year was among the performers on the...
The theme for this year’s heritage series, Grounation, sounds rather lofty: ‘Music and Reasoning in Working Class Culture: Implications for Governance and Constitutional Reform’, but Herbie Miller, director of the Jamaica Music Museum, which stages...
Jesse Royal is a Grammy-nominated reggae artiste currently dominating the local scene in Jamaica. Born Jesse Gray, the self-proclaimed ‘small axe’ hails from St James. In his early life, he spent his days in banana walks and pineapple fields...
In writing a review for Bob Marley: One Love, I must acknowledge a smidge of bias. At one point the film makes mention of young Nesta’s birthplace of “rural St Ann”. It’s a fact that carries a lot more weight when you know what rural St Ann looks...
It feels strange to mention The Color Purple in a review for Mean Girls. Given the close window of their releases, and with both being remakes based on Broadway musicals of the original films, I feel I have no choice. While the emotionally taxing...
As the February 14 opening of the Bob Marley: One Love movie nears, and the number of premieres increase – the third one was held in Los Angeles on Tuesday, following those in Jamaica on January 23 and London on January 30 – the producers are...
Dancehall artiste Valiant is thanking his "true fans and supporters" following his win for Best Caribbean Music Act at the 26th Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards. The announcement was made on the @moboawards Instagram page earlier today during...
Shrapnel, directed by William Kaufman, is an intense action thriller that delves into the harrowing journey of a former Marine, Sean Beckwith (played by Jason Patric), as he confronts the ruthless Mexican cartel responsible for his daughter’s...
After last year’s stellar staging, the Lost in Time Festival has returned for round two. At the media launch for the In.Digg.Nation-led event hosted at the AC Hotel Kingston, festival director Protoje and his band of musical friends, collaborators...
Theatre is bouncing back big time after the trials and tribulations of Covid. A couple of years ago, stages were dark, but this past weekend drama aficionados were able to see no less than six productions in the Corporate Area. Five of them...
On February 6, 1945, Nesta Robert Marley was born in Nine Mile, St Ann, however the order of his name was changed because legend has it that a passport officer told his mother, Cedella, that ‘Nesta’ was “a girl name” and suggested that she use...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper and activist won three Grammy awards including his first in more than two decades. In a video posted by the trade website The Hollywood Reporter,...
The third time’s the Grammy charm for reggae singer Julian Marley. On his third nomination, Julian Marley won his first Grammy award. The album Colors of Royal, a project in collaboration with Alexx Antaeus, was announced as the winner in the Best...
LOS ANGELES (AP): The night began with a rare sight: tennis champion Serena Williams was flustered. “I’m a little nervous... I can’t breathe,” she said through an exasperated smile. “I’m usually really good at this.” The overwhelming task was not...
The annual celebration of the life and legacy of Reggae King Robert Nesta Marley will once again take place on February 6, the anniversary of his birth. This year, the Marley family and the Bob Marley Group of Companies honour the icon’s 79th...
