The ‘Founding Father of Hip Hop’ is a title that the Jamaican creator of the genre wears very well, and he laughs when asked how it feels to be so acknowledged. “Despite everything, I have never forgotten my roots,” DJ Kool Herc told The Gleaner...
Papa Michigan’s One Love Jamdown, with its strident dismissal of segregation at every level, powered by the lusty Rope In ‘riddim’, certainly embodied the theme for the kickoff staging of Reggae Wednesdays, 'One Big Family'. The old-school deejay...
Rastafarian elder and reggae singer, Denroy Morgan, is releasing a new single today. However, that is a small part of a much more serious mission on which he has militantly embarked. He is making a case for the United Nations (UN) to declare...
Most persons with a February 6 birthday are said to be born on the ‘earthstrong’ of reggae legend, Robert Nesta Marley. Derrick Harriott, however, has a slightly different take. “Bob Marley was born on my birthday,” he states very matter-of-factly...
Attorney-at-law and reggae music connoisseur Bert Samuels has a deep respect for the music and the message of iconic reggae singer Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, who would have celebrated his 75th birthday today. But he also has a case against the “...
Despite appeals from players within the music industry and positive reports of its effectiveness, the two-hour extension granted for the hosting of entertainment events has come to an end. This was disclosed by participants at a recent Gleaner...
In piloting last December’s legislation to secure a temporary extension to the party hours regulated by the Noise Abatement Act, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang acknowledged that as Government “we must create the balance between the...
Roots reggae sibling group Morgan Heritage – namely Roy ‘Gramps’ Morgan, Peter ‘Peetah’ Morgan and Memmalatel ‘Mojo’ Morgan – have embraced a new challenge, the inaugural staging of the iJAM Music Festival. Scheduled for Orlando’s Tinker Field in...
Frankie Campbell, frontman of legendary Jamaican band Fab 5, while questioning the inclusion of a sound clash on the stage of the just-concluded roots reggae festival, Rebel Salute, is also calling out emcee Mutabaruka for his “utterances”. For...
Tonight Rebel Salute will witness a glorious Dubplate Display with two selectors who have a lot of sauce – the legendary sound man Jack Scorpio of Black Scorpio fame and Dynamq, the Sudanese Child, also known as the notorious River Nile Crocodile...
Having created a musical blaze in 2019, with ‘Catch A Fire’ as the celebratory theme for what would have been Bob Marley’s 74th birthday, the Marleys have now set the stage to be redeemed. This year’s diamond jubilee of the reggae legend and...
“Surreal” was the term singer and performer extraordinaire Nadine Sutherland, used to describe her career hitting the big 4-0 in December 2019. This milestone marks the journey from winning the inaugural Tastee Contest in 1979 to the many triumphs...
Prominent Jamaican dub poet, broadcaster and social activist Mutabaruka, while pointing out that the media has not made a big enough deal of last year being dubbed ‘The Year of Return’ by Ghana, says he hopes that dancehall star Popcaan will return...
Declaring that “it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness,” Eric Nathan, president of the East Jamaica Conference (EJC) of Seventh-day Adventists, officially launched Instruments 4 Change, the conference’s ambitious crime-reduction...
Bimonthly music soirée, Jazz in the Gardens, is helping to keep live music alive and the performers at Sunday’s 2019 curtain closer – which added cabaret to its offering – made it a point of duty to heap praises on promoters Ken Nelson, Nancy...
Emprezz Golding chose to explore what many would consider a rather taboo topic at the recently staged Long Story Short held on the lawns of Grosvener Gallery, St Andrew. Described by financial adviser and creative entrepreneur Daniel Edwards as...
Ruckshon Junction just sounds like exactly what it is – the name of a Pantomime, this year’s, to be precise. When the doors of the Little Theatre are flung wide open later this evening, the cast of the Pantomime will be all set to do what they...
When Kathy ‘Tan Deh Deh’ Grant takes to the stage to do her comedy routine, she has a way of schooling her audience, whether the lesson is on how to properly show appreciation for an act – via shouts loud and long – or how to act when going...
‘Freedom’s Songs’ was the chosen theme for Meadowvale Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church’s inspiring musical extravaganza, staged at the Chancery Street place of worship last Saturday evening. From start to finish, the two-and-a-half-hour-long...
Hosted at a venue that is acknowledged as the bedrock of Jamaican popular music, ‘Christmas Joy In The Bass’ continued the enduring tradition of the execution of excellent musical productions at the Ambassador Theatre. The ‘Bass’ is the diminutive...
Dancehall has a new queen. Days after her crowning glory at the Miss World beauty pageant in London, 23-year-old Toni-Ann Singh is scheduled to attend Unruly Fest, one of the most anticipated dancehall shows for the Yuletide season. And when she...
Oliver Sacks in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales states that the “telling of our life stories is perhaps one of the most powerful therapeutic tools available to man.” On Saturday, the courage displayed by some of the...
Music bible, Billboard, and Honda have joined forces to tell the story of Grammy-nominated Jamaican artiste, Koffee. A three-minute-and-23-second video, titled Koffee Looks Back On Childhood and Early Love of Reggae Music , was officially...
Roots reggae singer Kelissa and DJ Shacia Payne Marley will tomorrow pay homage to the sound-system culture with the staging of Anbessa World Sound System Session at Skyline Levels in St Andrew. Featured on the line-up are Kabaka Pyramid, King...
The carnival at Christmas debate came to the fore at the recent Gleaner Entertainment Forum with guests Boyd James – half of the duo Alrick and Boyd – Tommy Cowan of Glory Music, and his wife Carlene Davis. The carnival season in Jamaica gets...
