Fifth form student at St Andrew High School for Girls, Zarah Johnston, has chosen a non-traditional career path, and she couldn’t be more passionate about it. For as long as she can recall, the aspiring actress has yearned to be on television. The...
‘Sterling 8 will be great’ was the unwritten tag line for the eighth staging of the annual gospel music awards, and the founder, Basillia Barnaby-Cuff, her team and the nominees literally spoke that into being. Last Saturday night’s ceremony was a...
Multiple Sterling Gospel Music Award nominee, Perpetual Sounds of Praise, will on Saturday evening be celebrated by the awards body as one of the legends who have “spent more than 20 years shaping and influencing the gospel industry”. The event...
Winning the prestigious Marcus Garvey Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts for 13 consecutive years must be nice. And, for the well-decorated Ardenne High School, this record win has nothing to do with any ‘Lady Luck’ smiling down on them,...
In his very personal introduction of secular-turned-gospel singer Junior Tucker at the birthday celebration and album launch for the entertainer’s Journey ... The Best of Junior Tucker at Swallowfield Chapel last Saturday, music industry veteran...
Amid loud whispers that the gospel fraternity has seemingly abandoned Lt Stitchie in his time of greatest need, gospel singer and ‘Minista’ Paul Blake, says that this is not so. During his performance on Saturday night at the Swallowfield Chapel in...
The event last Saturday night at Swallowfield Chapel was advertised as an album launch and birthday celebration, but with a line-up featuring the likes of Junior Tucker, Papa San, Carlene Davis and Paul Blake it had no choice but to take on big...
Veteran radio host Rev VB and his renowned Blessing Plan Ministry was like an institution in Jamaica, starting in the ‘80s and continuing into the 2000s. Upon his passing in December last year, many persons testified of the impact of the gospel...
Musician Paul Kastick has drummed his way into some of the biggest festivals across the globe, earning for himself a name that is as big as that of some of the celebrity singers with whom he has worked. It is not surprising that Kastick has...
When Merritone Disco’s Monte Blake receives his distinguished Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from The University of the West Indies, Mona campus later this year, he will be awarded “for his pioneering work in music” and considering his trailblazing...
The Mortimer-hungry crowd willingly made the mid-week trek “up a Skyline” in Jack’s Hill to hear their favourite artiste deliver an intimate live acoustic set at The Listener’s Club, and it was a full house that savoured the 90 minutes of musical...
A decade after the release of his début album, Anointed, conscious reggae singer Bugle, has given fans Apex, a 16-track offering that the Rastafarian song-writer has poured his everything into. His fifth studio album, Apex dropped on August 23 and...
The year 2024 has been “an amazing one” on the cricket field and in the field of entertainment for explosive West Indies batsman and Universe Boss Chris Gayle. And he’s now ready to put some more icing on the cake when he hosts his birthday bash,...
Sophia Laing, the wife of veteran deejay, Cleveland 'Lt Stitchie' Laing, is putting to rest stories online — in particular, a video posted to YouTube late last night — that the entertainer has passed. “I heard about the video,” Sophia told The...
When Rolling Stone magazine last October unveiled its official list of The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, sitting at 179 was Ernest ‘Ernie’ Ranglin. The 92-year-old musician is still going strong and still picks up his guitar for special...
Dancehall megastar, Sean Paul, can be counted on to bring on the heat, and effectively disturb the diabolical chants of the naysayers who keep falsely predicting the demise of dancehall. Nearly 20 years after his megahit Temperature was released,...
Singer George Nooks is confident that a strong musical message is timeless, and he also believes that the success and longevity of a song is determined by the “right ingredients”, one of which is a live recording session with talented musicians....
The solo journey of Delomar, formerly of the duo RDX, has led to the upcoming release of his first solo album, and while he is super excited to unveil it in November, there’s a bit of semantics involved that require some sort of explanation. First...
Veteran deejay, Cleveland ‘Lt Stitchie’ Laing, is reportedly ill and “unresponsive” and Sophia Laing is requesting financial assistance from the public for his medical care. Sophia has taken to the crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe, to seek...
Fantan Mojah has definitely got his mojo back, and that is due in part to the excellent CSEC results from his daughter, Fantasia. The Holy Childhood High School graduate was successful in nine of 10 subjects that she sat in the recent examinations...
Although there were no crowns, thrones, golden microphones, plaques, fancy speeches, nor any other kind of officialdom normally associated with an event titled ‘The Crowning ...’, that certainly didn’t prevent the man of the moment Leroy Sibbles,...
During the recent Independence celebrations, gospel singer Chevelle Franklyn took a packed National Arena to church with a collection of praise and worship songs that included not only up-tempo, foot-stomping tracks but also songs that allowed...
The death of dancehall artiste, Stephanie ‘Medikk’ Williams, which remains an unsolved murder, has sparked a new light and life in her mother, Millicent McCurdy. The businesswoman is now imbued with a passion to help to enrich the lives of young...
In the era of all things Taylor Swift, Jamaican singer, Omi, has been lucky to grab some headlines in the UK press, which is approving of every move the leader of the ‘Swifties’ makes. On August 15, the same day Swift’s Eras Tour kicked off in the...
Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths is congratulating veteran singer, Leroy Sibbles, on his 60 years in the music business and his upcoming crowning as King of Reggae Basslines at a concert set for August 31. Although she is being advertised to...
