David Minott, the 16-year-old grandson of dancehall veteran, the late Lincoln ‘Sugar’ Minott, lost his life while visiting the Somerset Falls attraction in Portland on Sunday. The Wolmer’s Boys' School student was with his grandmother and a church...
Hector Roots Lewis will join the award-winning reggae band Tribal Seeds as their lead vocalist for their 2022 summer tour throughout the United States. The band’s lead singer, Steven Jacobo, has taken a hiatus from live performances. “The band...
You can’t keep a good man down, especially if he’s a renowned batsman who has ventured into music and has chosen to go by the moniker, Universe Boss. As Chris Gayle, he is used to hitting big runs on the cricket pitch and, without missing a stride...
Minister Marion Hall is up for doing Reggae Sumfest, but only if it’s for a gospel night. Formerly Lady Saw, the gospel minister used her Facebook platform on Saturday to share that the Downsound Entertainment team has been in dialogue with her...
Lil Kim thinks The Notorious BIG remains the “king” of rap music. The Brooklyn-born star was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in March 1997, aged 24, but Kim is convinced he would’ve still been a “funny, fun, handsome” man at the age of...
Mention the name of Jamaican British-based vocalist Jimmy James and music lovers might break out in song with the legendary soul singer’s mega hit, Come to Me Softly, which smashed the airwaves in the 1960s. It was this particular song which...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett is forecasting that the city of Montego Bay will earn between $5 billion and $6 billion from the staging of Reggae Sumfest 2022. The festival, which took a two-year hiatus from the...
Thriving in a smoky blur of local acts crossing over into the pop realm, fusing the sounds of reggae and dancehall with other genres and capturing the attention of the techie generation is the multi-hyphenate Indie Allen, who not only captured but...
In a moment when all her goals seemed possible, Esther Antoine nearly lost her mind and then her life. The unexpected death of her youngest child in 2008 left the singer, songwriter, author and her family in a daze as it was discovered that the...
Should Sandra-Lee Smith enter a party and see someone wearing her ensemble, she’s leaving. Better yet, “If I travel or go to a store in Jamaica and there’s only two or three pieces (of something I love), I grab all of them because I want to have...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, has announced that the Government will be organising the traditional Labour Day concert on Monday, May 23. The annual concert was not held in 2020 and 2021 because of the ban on...
The thanksgiving service for Tabby Diamond seemed to be the perfect excuse for members of music industry to descend in droves on the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Hope Road and transform it into ‘Festive Fridays’. Musicians, singers,...
Donald 'Tabby Diamond' Shaw, lead singer of the internationally famed reggae group Mighty Diamonds, and Fitzroy 'Bunny Diamond' Simpson will be laid to rest side-by-side at the Meadowrest Memorial Park in St Catherine. Funeral director Peter...
Sir Paul McCartney has topped the list of Britain and Ireland’s richest musicians. The 79-year-old star has a personal fortune worth £865 million, which is up £45 million from last year, thanks to his COVID-delayed Got Back tour and The Beatles:...
Netflix’s debut original Nigerian television series, Blood Sisters, has been in the top five most popular shows on the streaming platform in Jamaica for several days, and it’s not hard to see why. Jamaicans have had a long-standing affair with...
The service of thanksgiving for Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw will take place at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre this morning, starting at 11 a.m. Lloyd ‘Judge Diamond’ Ferguson, the only living member of the Mighty Diamonds trio, will lead a...
Spanish may be Mexican reggae artiste Jah Fabio’s first language, but Jamaican Patois certainly sounds like it could easily be his second. And he will have “nuff tme” to practise it when he returns to the island in July to perform on Reggae...
Like a storybook ending, the World Clash trophy returned to Jamaica, the birthplace of sound clash, with Code Red’s recent victory. Moreover, the sold-out O2 Academy in Birmingham, England, served as the ultimate finale to World Clash, a premier...
The original Firestarter film came out in 1984, yet its story has never been more familiar. A young girl subjected to experiments develops amazing abilities and is hunted down by the very people who made her what she is. Stranger Things has become...
Rihanna has welcomed a baby boy with A$AP Rocky. The 34-year-old pop star, who has been dating rapper A$AP since January 2020, announced back in February that the couple were expecting and reportedly welcomed the baby almost a week ago. A source...
John Legend loved “bringing hip and soul together” with Kanye West during the beginning of music career. The Dope hitmaker says the Jesus Walks rapper, who legally change his name to ‘Ye’ last year, helped him craft his work by producing songs with...
Dennis Brown may be the most-covered reggae artiste given his amazing catalogue of reggae and lover’s rock songs. Talented reggae singer Dona-V is a ‘D Brown’ superfan who stands out among the Brown’s legion of fans, and he recently paid homage to...
After a two-year hiatus, writer, director and producer, Dahlia Harris, makes a powerful return to live theatre with the award-winning drama God’s Way 2: Carlton’s Redemption. The show is scheduled for one weekend only, June 3 to 5, at Jamaica’s...
Singer Beverley Kelso, one of the founding members of the original Wailers with Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Junior Braithwaite and Cherry Smith, will be honoured with a United States Congressional Proclamation from Congresswoman Yvette D...
Her passion for reggae and dancehall music was ignited in her pre-teenage years and Amel Rachedi has never found another rhythm that lights a fire in her heart, quite like the Jamaican genres. The songs recorded on the popular Bookshelf and...
