Optimistic is how Richard Delano Forbes Jr, the man at the helm of Phase Three, is feeling about the creative industry as it emerges out of the doldrums brought on by the pandemic, and he is ready to play his part in its rebuilding. Forbes’ gaze is...
Alpha is out and the reviews are in. Not surprisingly, the Shenyeng Princess has found favour with her subjects, with many of them gushing over her versatility and applauding Alpha’s # 1 debut on the iTunes Top 100 Reggae Albums chart. As for the...
CHICAGO (AP): A judge sentenced Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the black and gay actor a narcissistic charlatan for staging a hate crime against himself to grab the limelight while the nation struggled with wrenching issues of racial...
The Desperate Hour is a tense affair from start to finish. As the movie opens, Naomi Watts’ Amy coveys a distinct uneasiness. The weight of the world rests uncomfortably on her shoulders, giving her whole household a heavy feeling. It’s almost one...
Marcy Chin looks at her career in stages. At one point, her focus was to observe so she could learn and apply, and at another point, it was to become good at her craft. “A lot of that took years too; what was I gonna do that was different?” Chin...
ATLANTA (AP): Atlanta police briefly handcuffed movie director Ryan Coogler after a bank employee mistook him for a robber when he passed her a note while trying to withdraw a large amount of cash from his account. The Black Panther director, who...
CHICAGO ( AP ): Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that the former Empire actor orchestrated himself. Cook County Judge James Linn sentenced Smollett to 30 months...
Alicia Keys’ mother encouraged her to speak her mind Alicia Keys says her mother “empowered” her to be brave. The Girl on Fire hitmaker believes she is “not afraid” to speak her mind because of what Teresa Augello, her mom – who was a single...
The non-fungible token (NFT) wave is booming in the finance sector but also capturing lots of attention across the art, film and music industries, where many creatives are participating in more ways than one, in the digital marketplace. Gramps...
Gospel singer Jodian Pantry was busy on Monday in her community of Chapelton as she gifted students of the primary school with Amazon tablets to assist them with their schooling. In an interview with The Gleaner about the outreach, Pantry said it...
With Reggae Month just concluded, one of the messages which was proclaimed loudly was the need for positive messages through the music. This strident call came from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, as well as her...
Today, March 9, marks 25 years since rap legend, Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., was killed. He was only 24. Signed to Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs’ Bad Boy Records, Biggie, who would have turned 50 this year, is considered one of the...
The Desperate Hour A mother’s dilemma with no time to spare Unfolding in real time, The Desperate Hour is a riveting and pulse-pounding thriller from award-winning director, Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award nominee...
Ed Sheeran has denied “borrowing” music from other artistes. The Bad Habits hitmaker took to the stand at the High Court in London last Monday as part of a copyright claim over his 2017 hit Shape of You. Sheeran is in a dispute with musicians Sami...
Dr Richard Kirkwood, a member of Casual-T — the ‘80s singing group comprising medical doctors — has died. Dr Charlie Roberts confirmed to The Gleaner that Kirkwood passed away last Wednesday in hospital in New York. He was 76. “Kirk was recently...
When did you find out that you were the other woman? Recording artiste Bella Blair addresses that issue in her new single, On the Side. Pandora’s ‘Caribbean Artistes to Watch 2022’ told The Gleaner that her aim for this track was to break away from...
It’s a misty Saturday evening in Irish Town, St Andrew, where Grammy Award-winning phenom Koffee is performing x10, the opening track for her debut album, Gifted. She’s singing about remaining grounded despite having more money in her pocket, and...
Tributes continue to flow following the passing, last Thursday night in Georgia, USA, of veteran reggae singer and patriarch of Morgan Heritage singing group, Denroy Morgan. Minister of Culture Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, noting that the 76-year-old...
Reggae-dancehall artiste KipRich says, for the season of Lent, he will be making an effort to drop his habit of procrastination and is hopeful that he can overcome it thereafter. At the core of the Christian practice of Lent, which lasts for 40...
It’s not uncommon to find producers and songwriters taking a stab at the music industry as recording artistes – and sometimes it happens in reverse. A good 14 years after writing and co-producing Sean Paul’s hot track Temperature, alongside Rohan ‘...
Rastafarian reggae singer, Denroy Morgan, father of 30 biological children, grandfather to 104 and great-grandfather of 15, exuded greatness of biblical proportions. Little wonder that he was known as a patriarch, a term that has its genesis in the...
LOS ANGELES (AP): A 30-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday to the murder of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant. Aariel Maynor pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of Avant and the attempted...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says that the Government is to draft legislation to protect the rights of practitioners in the creative sector, as the country seeks to safeguard the cultural and economic...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Janet Jackson, Kevin Hart and Nicki Minaj are among the headliners announced Thursday for this summer’s Essence Festival of Culture, which returns to New Orleans after a two-year hiatus brought on by the coronavirus pandemic....
Jamaican reggae icon Denroy Morgan died peacefully on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia, after a brief illness. He was surrounded by close family members. Morgan, the hitmaker who topped the international charts in 1981 with his smash single I’ll Do...
