It has been two and a half weeks since Jean Watt, the spouse of legendary reggae singer Bunny Wailer, has gone missing from the family home in Washington Gardens, St Andrew, and a reward is now on the table. However, as the search intensifies,...
Tropical House Cruises to Jamaica: The Reggae Collector’s Edition has been enjoying major chart success since its official release last Friday. The compilation album, headlined by ‘King of African Dancehall’ Shatta Wale, and which features other...
Sista Sasha is determined to do it her way in an era where dancehall gospel singers who had found fame on the secular stage are still earnestly carving out their path and shunning all mention of their former lifestyle altogether. Cognisant of her...
The chant ‘Jah is real’ no doubt has the same potency to a Rastafarian as the sentence ‘God is real’ does to Christians. For reggae artistes Pressure Busspipe and Protoje, who recently collaborated on a song, titled Jah is Real, and subsequently...
Singer and musician Benjy Myaz’s newest project, Rootsy Rhapsody, recently encountered a derailment owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the entertainer is taking this in his musical stride and continues tapping to the beat. After all, Rootsy...
When French record producer, house music DJ, and remixer Bob Sinclar teams up with OMI, the result is pure magic – a celebratory track driven by the flavourful mix of sounds and coupled with compelling lyrics that speak positivity. Sinclar, the...
A four-letter word best describes the display of musical mastery that unfolded on the Instagram Live battle, Verzuz, on Saturday night: EPIC. It will be days, perhaps weeks, or even months before everybody ceases talking about the showmanship of...
It was on the eve of the birthday of Sugar Minott, the Godfather of Dancehall, that the highly anticipated Verzus clash featuring dancehall gladiators Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, splendidly showed off Jamaica to the nearly half a million persons...
One of the last projects on which legendary music industry producer Bobby ‘Bobby Digital’ Dixon worked was Buju Banton’s newest album, to which he contributed two tracks. Bobby Digital, who passed away early Friday morning, had been on dialysis for...
For his birthday on April 13, reggae singer Capleton was forced to do a Facebook Live session rather than his usual celebration, which always sees the birthday boy treating family, colleagues, and members of his Cassia Park community in St Andrew....
When Skip Marley linked up for a collab with multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning artiste H.E.R., little did he know that in the week of May 17, 2020, he would be dominating music headlines with a history-making feat. It goes something like this: “...
Fans of singer Mikey Spice will be happy to know that he has seemingly ended his hiatus and is ready to make a statement in a huge way. The multi-instrumentalist and consummate performer has a defining, digital musical experience in store for fans...
The family of Sugar Minott, the late reggae and dancehall legend who gave the world anthems such as Herbsman Hustling, No Vacancy, Mr DC, and A House is Not a Home, and who exposed many young artistes through his Youthman Promotions, will again...
If there are any expectations that classically trained, Seventh-day Adventist musician, desmond, will entertain any debate about his reason for releasing a reggae- and dancehall-infused project, forget it. He is living his best life, as he extols...
As the world races to find a vaccine that many hope will eradicate the dreaded COVID-19 disease, several singers and players of instruments have injected musical shots, in an attempt to help heal the virus-stricken world. Papa Michigan, of the...
The expression ‘third time’s the charm’ certainly holds true for 2019 Actor Boy Award Best Actor in a Lead Role winner, Earle Brown. On Saturday, a surprised Brown, who had been nominated in the category for three consecutive years, finally hit the...
Grammy-nominated reggae singer Etana isn’t letting the COVID-19 pandemic cloud her vision nor direct her path. She is using this time of postponed concerts to bond with her children and also to make more music. “Besides being all over my kids,...
From the comments on the Facebook live stream of the Actor Boy Awards on Saturday evening, it was clear that theatre practitioners were out in full force to cheer on their favourites, and their comments provided quite a chunk of the evening’s...
Last year, popular online music magazine Pitchfork listed three Jamaican artistes on the Top 200 Songs of the decade between 2010 and 2019 (inclusive). Popcaan, Vybz Kartel and Gaza Slim held on to the number 161 slot with their summer blockbuster...
IN THE midst of Marley75, a year-long celebration in 2020 of what would have been the 75th birthday of Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, there also comes the day that many would rather not have happened – May 11, the day Marley died. But, just like the...
Despite its best efforts, COVID-19 will not be allowed to steal the joy of Mother’s Day this year. An array of the island’s top singers and musicians have pledged to infuse the accustomed specialness into the day dedicated to mothers with a concert...
BEFORE MILLIE Small became the ‘lollipop girl’, she was a ‘sugar plum’. Not only is it a term of endearment, it is also the title of her first song – a duet as it was called back in 1960 – with singer Owen Gray. This collab was born out of the time...
By the month of May in any given year, the many and varied events and competitions staged by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) islandwide would have been in high gear. Each year the JCDC rolls out its much-anticipated menu board...
IT IS said that every cloud has a silver lining, and that could still hold true, even in the midst of a terrifying global pandemic. Despite COVID-19, the cycle of life continues, and out of it has sprung forth an inspiring poetry competition,...
Long before the existence of the Internet and going viral was a thing, reggae singer Jacob Miller, back in the ‘70s, coined a term that went viral – under heavy manners. Ian Lewis of Inner Circle band, the Bad Boys of Reggae, recalled that his...
