After performing as back up vocalist for Jamaican gospel artistes such as Goddy Goddy, Abigail Hamilton has walked into the spotlight with the launch of her debut album, Let It Rain. The album, with most of the songs written by...
In its 17th season of performance, ASHE Performing Arts Company will be 'edutaining' people about their sexual choices in Safe Stupid or What!, followed by a variety cabaret-style performance for their show called Full Circle.
Thirty seven years in the business and reggae band Third World is still making big strides.After touring since January, the group recently digitally released its 23rd album,...
While there have been a few significant moves for more poets to perform together over the past few months, last Sunday Yasus Afari strengthened his connection with music at the 'Public Secret' launch of the Dub Vijaan Band, which will accompany him.
Over the past 10 years, in the waxing and waning of various events which have built on the monthly Poetry Society of Jamaica gatherings at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), poetry presentations in Kingston have been mainly a solo affair.
IT has been an eventful year for Jimmy Cliff. In February, the singer became only the second reggae act (the first being Bob Marley) inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was followed by the release of his latest album, Existence.
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2010 | 12:00 AM
"After I became a Christian I started singing at my church, Boulevard Church of the Nazarene," said Abigail Hamilton of her humble beginnings as a gospel singer.
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Lisa Niemi - who admits she has struggled to come to terms with life without Patrick Swayze who died of cancer aged 57 last September - has continued her tradition of texting him before boarding a flight.She told People magazine: "I just put what I...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Reading from her book Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall last Friday evening, University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer Dr Donna Hope connected levels of alcohol competition to the measure of a man.
Chris Blackwell, founder of the eclectic Island Records, recently celebrated the company's 50th anniversary with the release of a glossy-paged book of archival Island photographs and images memorialising its journey."I never...
Lady Gaga interrupted her concert to break up a fight.Lady Gaga, while performing her hit single Just Dance on her 'Monster Ball' world tour in Washington on Tuesday night, noticed an altercation breaking out between...
Halle Berry, the actress who recently ended her romance with model Gabriel Aubry, the father of her two-year-old daughter Nahla, has grown increasingly close to her Dark Tide co-star, Olivier Martinez, and the pair couldn't fail to hide their affection...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Pianist heads to Washington for Kennedy Center performanceOrrett Rhoden, internation-ally acclaimed Jamaican pianist, is set to give a recital at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Andrew Tosh will release his seventh album at the end of the month.The 10-track set, which Tosh describes as "something different and fresh", is called Legacy and follows on the heals of Focus, his last effort.Legacy, as its name suggests, is almost an...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Styleweek, Caribbean FashionWeek, Miss Jamaica World, Miss Jamaica Universe, Miss Universe, have all proven wonderful spectacles.Now it is time for another beauty pageant to match up.On September 26, eyes will...
