Ewan Simpson, chairman of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA), has hailed Kabaka Pyramid for his Best Reggae Album Grammy. The reggae artiste secured his first Grammy win on Sunday for his sophomore album, The Kalling. “This is a...
The state of music in our schools engenders both delight and dismay in the music development specialist at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC). Avory Crooks has reasons to believe both sides of the paradox. On one hand, she can...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, has congratulated Kabaka Pyramid for winning the Best Reggae Album award at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, United States, on Sunday. Kabaka Pyramid won with...
Under the theme ‘Revolution: Celebrating the Crown Prince’, Reggae Wednesdays made its grand return last week, but at a new venue, the Festival Marketplace in downtown Kingston, rather than its former ‘home’, Emancipation Park in New Kingston....
The Island Music Conference (IMC) will officially begin tomorrow. Its inaugural staging kick-starts with ‘YouTube Day’ scheduled for February 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and comprises a series of panel discussions and performances. According to...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian singer who faces possible prison time for his song that become an anthem to the ongoing protests shaking the Islamic Republic wept early Monday after seeing he'd won a Grammy. Shervin Hajipour...
With a name like EarthKry, this band must have certainly shared a few tears and according to its keyboardist Phillip McFarlane, “a whole lot of laughter” throughout the years. Comprising four multi-talented musicians, who firmly believe that ‘a...
February 6, the birthday of Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, is a day that is celebrated throughout the reggae-loving world, with not just the playing of songs from the icon’s extensive catalogue, but also with concerts, dances and all things musical...
Musician Makiri Whyte was one of two 2022 recipients of the Prime Minister’s Youth Awards in Music. Speaking with The Gleaner after the ceremony that was hosted on the lawns of Jamaica House Saturday evening, a passionate and overjoyed Whyte...
There was no better way to spend a cool Thursday night in the city than at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre where hundreds of event-goers experienced a reggae showcase that money simply could not buy. Sanchez Live was hosted by the Minister...
Kabaka Pyramid has won the Grammy for his sophomore project The Kalling. The announcement was made during the Grammy Premiere Ceremony a short while ago. The Kalling was one of the five albums nominated in the Best Reggae Album category at...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Will Beyoncé emerge from the Grammy Awards as its most decorated artiste ever? That’s one of the main storylines heading into tonight’s ceremony, where the superstar is the leading nominee and needs four wins to make history....
Reggae and dancehall artiste La Teeze has stepped into the new year with a bang by releasing three new singles. The tracks are Come For Me, Jamaica Love and Save Me, which were composed under the direction of manager Alfred ‘Jah Guida’ Bailey,...
The music industry’s Grammy Awards made its debut on May 4, 1959, 30 years after the Academy Awards handed out its first Oscar honouring the best in movies. The initial Grammy celebration was bicoastal, with events in Los Angeles and New York. A...
Award-winning ska, rocksteady, reggae, multi instrumentalist, and actor, Jimmy Cliff, fondly recalled his burst of enthusiasm at the finale of the musical for The Harder They Come, which premiered in London’s West End years ago. “I attended and I...
Kabaka Pyramid’s The Kalling, his sophomore project, is one of the five albums nominated in the Best Reggae Album category for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, which unfolds on Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. “It’s Rastafari calling...
Eighteen-year-old Brandon Coke is on a mission to change the constant devastating news and has released his latest single Cry, which he hopes will reassure the island’s youth. Coke blends genres by taking from his Jamaican roots and creating his...
She has not yet set foot into one of the island’s international airports, but Floda Graé has her trip to Jamaica mapped out mentally and musically. From the street dances to the white-sand beaches, the emerging R...
The place was the National Heroes Park in Kingston, and the summons went out for a gathering of the people – dressed in white – at the final resting place of the ‘Crown Prince of Reggae’ Dennis Emanuel Brown, to commemorate the 66th anniversary of...
In terms of pioneers on the wheels of steel, the list is fiilled with the names of men, but there are a few women who have dared to challenge the statusquo and add their tender touch to the mix. These female disc jockeys have been overlooked and...
Beyoncé is taking her Renaissance global – the superstar will start a world tour in Sweden in May with stops throughout Europe and the United States. The highly anticipated tour announcement she made on Instagram and her website Wednesday comes...
If the good vibrations that permeated through the small group that gathered at the AC Hotel Kingston for the media launch of The Lost in Time Festival foreshadow what is to come from the show on February 25, then patrons are in for a great event...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Dr Dre will celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Chronic with a re-release of his highly acclaimed debut studio album. The multi-Grammy winner’s iconic first solo album will make a return to streaming services on Wednesday. His...
