Entertainment insiders believe shock-value marketing is a clever way for artistes to get attention. The insiders believe that shock-value marketing is often extreme and may evoke disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions from an audience...
Closing out 2013 with a bevy of high-energy performances at events such as LIME Christmas Mission Road Show, Irie FM Street Dance and Over Rave in Margaritaville, Ocho Rios, Rastafarian singer, Teflon, is intent on maintaining that momentum into the new...
'It was about 5 a.m. when I got back to the station. Once there, I was frozen at the thought of what had happened. I could not believe I had escaped; I had only been 10 yards from deaths. By early morning news had spread that Natty Chris...
Set in the land of Assam, somewhere in India, the Jamaica Junior Theatre's 2014 production, Aladdin! is best described as a canvas painted with patches of alluring creativity....
NEW YORK (AP)The Nielsen ratings company says the Golden Globe Awards ceremony hit a 10-year high in viewership.According to national figures released yesterday, the NBC telecast, with Tina Fey ...
Fireworks and confetti were the perfect end to a jam-packed event that to celebrate Tessanne Chin's major achievement. Jamaicans from all walks of life apparently wanted to welcome Tessanne Chin home, packing Ocean Boulevard in downtown Kingston...
International Reggae ambassador Duane Stephenson will be heating up the stage on Friday at the 21st staging of Rebel Salute, one of Jamaica's premier music festivals.Stephenson, who has...
The Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) is inviting entries for the 2014 Earth Day Competition. The competition is open to all secondary school students within grades 7-13. Students are asked to submit individual entries to the Literary Arts...
The following issues were topical for the month of November and made headlines in The Gleaner and STAR.1 Dancehall artiste Major Mackerel says he is making a comeback following his dubplate success in STAR and Magnum's weekly sound clash...
Patrons near the talent (small) stage in January 2005 at the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival were literally stopped in their tracks as the commanding voice of Tessanne Chin filled the balmy night air.
WILL THERE be a black film renaissance in 2014?This was one of the questions at a special screening of The Butler on Thursday.The sold-out event at The Ritzy Cinema in Brixton aimed to dispel the myth that black films...
With a voice that was powerful enough to bring attention to the state of the nation's roads, dancehall duo Twin of Twins is now asking Tessanne to use her voice to translate a few things so that a number of pressing issues...
Pulse, the 35-year-old model agency which pioneered the development of the Caribbean's international model industry, has launched The Search For The Million Dollar Girl.
There are few songs which praise Jamaican women in general, such as Fab Five Incorporated's Jamaican Woman and Jimmy Cliff's Miss Jamaica (the latter leaving room for any woman to be given the title).
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards will air live on CBS on January 26. Two titles released on VP Records, Beres Hammond's One Love, One Life and Sizzla's The Messiah, are in the running for the Best Reggae Album category.
Tony Rebel was in an upbeat mood at Jewel Paradise Cove Resort and Spa in Runaway Bay, St Ann, on Sunday as the Rebel Salute team launched the annual show in the host parish for the second year.
Media personality Alician Roxborough is hoping that her new online radio station, Tony Culture Time, will break into the youth market and inform younger listeners about Jamaica's rich cultural heritage.
The dust has seemingly settled, following last week's blazing article about heated controversies within the Heptones singing group of the 1960s. Now we can be reminded of the significant contributions made to Jamaican music by other similar vocal groups of the period.
Although 'The Voice' has ended, Tessanne Chin's journey has really just begun and she is still in disbelief. Speaking with The Sunday Gleaner ahead of her homecoming concert that will be held in downtown Kingston today beginning at 6 p.m., Tessanne explained that winning the United States-based vocal competition is still very surreal to her.
The month of October provided many examples of the way the Jamaican entertainment scene impacts other areas of endeavour and the way the music, in particular,...
After beginning last week with the stints onstage, Michael Reckord continues the story of Professor Edward Baugh's acting with the offstage forays."Acting came naturally to me," University of the West Indies (UWI)...
Deejay Ninja Man's birthday party is set to take place on Saturday, January 25, at Turtle River Park, Ocho Rios, St Ann, and will feature a number of top Jamaican artistes.This will be the second consecutive year that...
