After years away from the Kingston stage, controversial reggae hit-maker Queen Ifrica is ready to give a unique performance to Jamaican fathers this weekend at Reggae For Breakfast. For Ifrica, the idea of returning to the live stage in Kingston on...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Recording Academy announced a number of changes to the Grammy Awards, including a rule that stipulates “only human creators” can win the music industry's highest honour in a decision aimed at the...
NEW YORK (AP): Gloria Estefan, Jeff Lynne, Teddy Riley, Glen Ballard and Liz Rose were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday, with Post Malone and musical theatre lyricist Tim Rice also being honoured. The class of 2023 was...
Last Tuesday, dancehall artiste Suspense signed a three-year album and management deal with Savage Entertainment at the ROK Hotel in downtown Kingston. While the lyrically competent Suspense is well known, having been crowned Magnum Queen in 2017,...
Normani thinks the public’s perception of her has been driven by social media. The 27-year-old singer feels she’s been misunderstood by the public, and that her new single, Candy Paint, is a truer reflection of her real-life personality. Asked...
Al Pacino is a father for the fourth time. Pacino’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, confirmed to AP on Thursday that the actor, 83, and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah welcomed a son named Roman. No other details, including when or where the baby was born,...
Tyler Rake was clinically dead when we last saw him at the end of Extraction, tumbling over a bridge in Bangladesh with a fatal, burbling bullet wound to his neck. But death is no match for Netflix. Chris Hemsworth returns as the sad-sack, gun-for-...
He may be the king of warriors, but his songs reflect themes of love, commitment, humility, level-headedness and spiritual refreshing rather than fighting and war. Warrior King, however, easily explains what would seem to be an anomaly. He notes...
Olivia Smikle was never interested in pageantry. Her first love was philanthropy and playing an active role in community building. Last year, she was selected as the Jamaican representative to the Mrs Universe pageant which took place earlier this...
In opening the School of Visual Arts Final-Year exhibition at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts on Saturday evening, Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams shared the hope that it would bring “calm and solace” to a...
LONDON (AP): Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Tory Lanez’s sentencing for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion was delayed on Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford accepted the defence’s request to delay Lanez’s sentencing, which is now...
‘You’re Wondering Now ‘Chinna and Delphine Legendary guitarist, musician, singer and producer, Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith and French reggae artiste, Delphine, have teamed up again. This time, it is for a single titled You’re Wondering Now, which was...
Are YOU ready for The Flash? Worlds collide when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a...
With the thrust for greater diversity in film taking hold internationally, one local film-maker is calling for more work to be done locally. “In 2018, there was a lot of local discussion of Wakanda and Black Panther, and I thought there was a...
MANDEVILLE, MANCHESTER: What started out as hope that she would receive a return on the invested time and effort ended in the most favourable outcome for 23-year-old Donale Bryan, who copped the crown and title of Miss Manchester Festival Queen...
Lovers of classical music are once again in for a treat at the annual Classics in June concert, which will take place at the Church of the Ascension in Mona, St Andrew, on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 18, beginning at 5 p.m. The 18th annual charity...
WESTERN BUREAU: An audience of more than 200 waited patiently Saturday night, despite a one hour and 10 minutes power outage, to witness the crowning of 19-year-old recording artiste Tricia Cunningham as the 2023 Miss Hanover Festival Queen. The...
Liguanea Art Festival, one of the longest-running art festivals in the Caribbean, is set to take place on Sunday June 25, at Liguanea Plaza, St Andrew. The event has risen in attendance and has local and international recognition to become one of...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Janet Jackson inserted some youthful spirit into her normally mature concert during a Saturday night tour stop in Los Angeles. In a show filled with nostalgic hits, Jackson took a moment to perform her 1993 ballad Again...
Tributes are pouring in following the death last Friday of music industry stalwart, Claudette Kemp, long-time manager of reggae artiste, Capleton. Last Friday afternoon, some people in the fraternity received a WhatsApp message from Kemp’s family...
In five movies, Optimus Prime and his heroic autobots have sought after one all-powerful ancient object after the other. There’s the allspark, the matrix of leadership, the pillars, the seed, and the staff. Each time the journey goes across the...
The glitz and glamour of celebrity life often distract us from the humans that exist behind the fame who in many cases have had similar struggles and harsh realities to those who admire them. Peeling back the curtain in her usual candid way,...
GATFFEST, the largest community film festival in the Caribbean, will this year host a record 16 days of activities from June 19 to July 2, and will screen a total of 51 films at the Palace Cineplex in Sovereign Centre, festival director, Savannah...
“Are you ready for Lady Saw?” the emcee asked patrons at a 1993 concert at Crofts Hill Entertainment Complex in Clarendon. “Yes! Yes! Yes!!!” the dancehall-thirsty crowd shouted in unison. Once onstage, Saw, relaxed and in control, began her...
