GenXS Carnival is expanding into Trinidad carnival 2024 through a partnership with one of the largest Trinidadian carnival band, TRIBE. This year, GenXS Jamaica carnival made its debut in Trinidad as a marketer/partner for the Jumbie section in...
Jazz vocalist, Zara McFarlane, names American jazz singer and pianist Sara Vaughan as one of her main inspirations, and she will pay tribute to her this evening at Herbie Miller’s Downtown Jazz at the F...
Normani has announced her long-awaited debut solo album, ‘Dopamine’. The former Fifth Harmony member recently took to her social media pages to share the bold cover of her upcoming record, featuring her flying on a giant black rocket in a vinyl...
MIAMI (AP): South Florida rapper Kodak Black was freed from jail Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to time served for a probation violation, though a drug-trafficking case from 2022 remains ongoing. US District Judge Jose E. Martinez...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Beyoncé made history once again, becoming the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music chart.The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single Texas Hold ‘Em reached number one on the country airplay chart this...
Solange Knowles wants to release a record of tuba tunes. The 37-year-old Grammy-winner and younger sister of Beyoncé said that she has picked up the skill of playing the brass instrument and has been crafting music specifically for it. However, she...
At the 66th Grammy Awards ceremony on February 4, in Los Angeles, it was announced that Colors of Royal, an album by Julian Marley and Antaeus, had won the award for Best Reggae Album. Alexx Antaeus has been involved in recording, remixing, or...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with the same form of dementia that actor Bruce Willis has, a statement released Thursday on behalf of her caretakers says. The statement said the 59-...
The lineup for the 2024 staging of Reggae Sumfest just got more exciting as organisers have added Jada Kingdom, Aidonia and fast-rising, visually impaired sensation, Nigy Boy. Nigy Boy is set to make his debut appearance on night two, Saturday,...
With Bob Marley’s 15-time-platinum Legend reigning at number one on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart for the umpteenth week, Marley mystic continues to flow through the chart with Bob Marley And The Wailers – One Love: Original Motion Picture...
When Miss Jamaica World Shanique Singh arrived in New Dehli, India, for the start of the 71st Miss World festival, only one thing was on her mind – making Jamaica proud. The festival, which serves as the longest-running international pageant,...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:13 AM
LAS VEGAS (AP): A trial date has been pushed back from June to November for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas, and his new attorney said Tuesday that he expects to be...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 12:09 AM
In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have...
Over the next four years, several students at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts will have the opportunity to benefit from a generous bursary established to honour Canada-based Jamaican Grace Lyons, founder of the Heritage...
LONDON (AP): Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month. Gothic fantasia Poor Things...
For 13 years now, the Rex Nettleford Foundation recently honoured the life and legacy of its namesake, National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) co-founder and international culture advocate Professor Rex Nettleford, with an evening of singing, dance...
The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) has rebranded its signature February programme to AYA. AYA, a cultural engagement programme to be held annually in February, is designed to facilitate awareness of the...
AP: People had been coming to Ziggy Marley and his family for years with ideas about how to turn reggae icon Bob Marley’s life into a movie. But it never felt quite right, until a few years ago when they decided to be the instigators. “It was just...
Within the dancehall community, Whitfield Henry is renowned, however, most people are familiar with the moniker, ‘Father Witty’. Having dedicated more than two decades to the dancehall scene, and twice as many in the entertainment industry, the...
NEW YORK (AP): Paramount Pictures’ Bob Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love outperformed expectations to debut at No. 1 at the box office with a $27.7-million opening weekend, while Sony’s Madame Web flopped with one of the lowest debuts for a movie...
The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic One Love highlights important moments in the musician’s life – his adolescence in Trench Town, his spiritual growth, the attempt on his life. Marley died in 1981 at the age of 36. He’d achieved a level of...
On February 11, pioneering ska, mento and rocksteady singer, Count Owen joined the elite club of nonagenarians and he couldn’t be happier or more full of gratitude. The Count celebrated his 90th birthday surrounded by family, and, to top it off, he...
Being a film critic has its ups and downs. One day, you’re on the red carpet talking to stars at a world premiere, and the next, you’re in a near-empty cinema watching the latest attempt at kick-starting a superhero franchise. It’s a long and...
AP: On This Is Me ... Now, Jennifer Lopez’s first solo album in a decade, the singer takes back her rightful place on the throne of pop music. In 2002, Jennifer Lopez dropped This Is Me … Then, her third studio album that married her glossy-eyed...
As Jamaica’s population of tertiary students prepare to play Mas at The University of the West Indies Carnival on March 16, Jamaica Carnival bands Yard Mas, GenXS and Xodus are ready to make themselves known on the Ring Road. At the recent band...
