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Published:Wednesday | November 2, 2022 | 12:09 AM

Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s...

Published:Wednesday | November 2, 2022 | 12:09 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

These days, 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist, music educator and performer Kamoy Gordon has set lists down to a science. A savant on the violin, pulling on the heartstrings of those who were present at the 2022 Live with Flair Luncheon, was...

Published:Tuesday | November 1, 2022 | 9:03 AM

Migos rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting early Tuesday outside a bowling alley in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. Takeoff — whose name was Kirsnick Khari Ball — was part of Migos along with Quavo and Offset. A...

Published:Tuesday | November 1, 2022 | 7:48 AM

TMZ is reporting that Takeoff, one-third of Atlanta rap group Migos, was shot and killed in Houston Tuesday. Takeoff, 28, whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, is the nephew of Migos rapper, Quavo and the two were reportedly in Texas for...

Published:Tuesday | November 1, 2022 | 12:07 AM

Dancehall hit maker ReniGAD, formerly of chart-topping dancehall duo RDX, is seeing additional solo success with a new single produced by Urban Gurillaz and Eastern Entertainment. The single, Survivor, acts as an unorthodox motivational track for...

Published:Tuesday | November 1, 2022 | 12:06 AMAnthony Turner/Gleaner Writer

NY: Reggae crooner Beres Hammond closed out his fourth consecutive sold-out tri-state area concert for 2022 last Saturday at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury in Long Island, New York, with an electrifying performance that some fans say may be his best...

Published:Monday | October 31, 2022 | 4:42 PMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Reggae singer Sevana this morning pleaded guilty to a charge of death by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on November 17. Sevana, whose real name is Anna Blake, appeared before Justice Courtney Daye at the Westmoreland Circuit Court for the...

Published:Monday | October 31, 2022 | 12:08 AM

Julia Roberts says the late Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth. The actress, 55, revealed that the couple made the gesture as her parents couldn’t afford the fee, and said her mum and dad...

Published:Monday | October 31, 2022 | 12:07 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Members of Jamaica’s entertainment industry continue to pay tribute to Donna-Lee Donaldson and Aneka ‘Slickiana’ Townsend, and by so doing have joined a large community of social media influencers, their families and friends in mourning their...

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2022 | 12:09 AMStephanie Lyew - Gleaner Writer

Reggae/dancehall artiste and producer, Mr G, just celebrated the 17th birthday of his first son, Chad-Antonio; however, he sums up 15 of those years as a “challenging and rewarding journey”. When Chad-Antonio was two and a half years old, he began...

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2022 | 12:08 AM

“One of the really great actresses and media personalities that Jamaica has produced,” is how Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, remembered Leonie Evadne Forbes, who passed away last Tuesday at the age of 85. The...

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2022 | 12:06 AMStephanie LyewSunday Gleaner Writer -

Music that was innovated in the 1970s and 1980s shaped the way US-based artiste, producer and DJ, Freddy Browne, visualised rhythms and combined beats in his head. Initially, it was the transitional era from funk to disco, then house, rock and...

Published:Saturday | October 29, 2022 | 12:06 AMAnthony Turner/Gleaner Writer

NEWYORK: Miracle baby Nigy Boy, aka Nigel Hector, whose mom was given the damning diagnosis by doctors in 2001 that her soon-to-be-born son would not survive outside of the womb, has not only survived but has thrived, even going viral on social...

Published:Saturday | October 29, 2022 | 12:06 AM

Howie Mandel understands why Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, felt like a “bimbo” on Deal or No Deal. The 66-year-old star was the host of the NBC game show when Meghan — who was then an actress known as Meghan Markle before marrying Prince Harry in 2018...

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 12:08 AM

In honour of Korea and Jamaica’s 60th anniversary, the Korean embassy invited Coreyah, a psychedelic Korean folk music group from Seoul, to perform in Kingston at the Courtleigh Auditorium last Tuesday. Since the group’s debut in 2010, Coreyah has...

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 12:07 AM

On Sunday, October 30, Kingston Creative’s ArtWalk festival will return to downtown Kingston for the first time in two years. Sponsored by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (an agency of the Ministry of Tourism), the American Friends of Jamaica and Main...

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 12:07 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Reggae and hip hop artiste, Kali Ranks, is brimming with enthusiasm at the upcoming release of the album Tropical House Cruises to Jamaica: The Asian Edition. When the A-list heavy Contractor Music Group and Triple Century Records production...

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 12:06 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Breaking away from the alté music that helped to usher his name into the industry, Joeboy is now reshaping Afrobeats by encapsulating all the elements of his personality and everything about the modern music, including the dancehall genre, without...

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 12:06 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

Black Adam has been a long time coming. In the 15 years since Dwayne Johnson’s casting, superhero films have become the most successful in the world, and Johnson himself has become an international superstar. Over a decade of development delays...

Published:Thursday | October 27, 2022 | 12:07 AM

Hip hop stars Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa recently announced the Black Star Line music and arts festival to take place in Accra, Ghana, in the historic Black Star Square on January 6, 2023. It aims to be a bridge between black people, and...

Published:Thursday | October 27, 2022 | 12:05 AMMichael Reckord/Gleaner Writer

William Shakespeare observes in As You Like It, “All the world’s a stage/And all the men and women merely players/They have their exits and their entrances/And one man in his time plays many parts….” For the past couple of decades, when Basil...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2022 | 12:07 AM

From New Line Cinema, Dwayne Johnson stars in the action adventure Black Adam. The first-ever feature film to explore the story of the DC Super Hero comes to the big screen under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra ( Jungle Cruise). In ancient...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2022 | 12:06 AM

After an almost three-year hiatus the Wolmer’s Dance troupe is putting the final touches on their season of dance. This year’s programme will showcase a broad sweep of contemporary dance styles and has been extended to include sister group the...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2022 | 12:06 AM

This year marks the 110th birthday anniversary of Jamaican cultural icon, Randolph Samuel Williams, more popularly known as Ranny Williams, or simply, Maas Ran. This morning at 9 o’clock, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2022 | 12:06 AM

Veteran dub poet Yasus Afari recently inked a deal with VPAL Music for the international release next month of his album Golden Spoon Maroon which features lovers rock king Beres Hammond, Ini Kamoze and Afari’s daughter Mik. The synergy between...

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