PARIS (AP): Josephine Baker – the US-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist – was inducted into France’s Pantheon on Tuesday, becoming the first black woman to receive the nation’s highest honour. Baker’s voice resonated...
The ASHE Company is upping the ante this holiday season with a six-track Christmas EP titled Follow the Star. The self-produced set is slated for release on all major digital platforms on Friday. It comes 11 years after ASHE’s début EP, Different...
King Richard Venus, Serena and a plan for greatness Based on the true story that will inspire the world, Warner Bros Pictures’ King Richard follows the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most...
Legendary guitarist Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith will dedicate this month’s groundation to Twelve Tribes of Israel physician, Dr Carlton ‘Pee Wee’ Fraser, who died on November 21 at the Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Smith, the leader of the...
NY: Jamaican jazz veteran Monty Alexander was last Friday bestowed with a US Proclamation from Westchester County (NY) Executive George Latimer. The presentation took place at the Westchester Music Experience concert at the Tarrytown Music Hall...
Winnie Harlow wanted “white girl hair” at the start of her career. The 27-year-old model is of Jamaican ancestry and has recalled wanting to have “white” hair during her younger years. Winnie, who was diagnosed with the skin condition vitiligo as a...
Ghanaian hitmaker Stonebwoy has been in a “happy” mood. He has contributed to three albums nominated in the Best Reggae Album category for the 64th annual Grammy Awards, and there were no other words to describe how he was feeling at the time of...
CHICAGO (AP): A popular actor steps out on to the street and is brutally reminded that, despite his fame and wealth, places still exist where the colour of his skin and sexual orientation put him in danger. That was the story that ricocheted...
Melessa Vassell, a 25-year-old theatrical, commercial, voiceover and television actress, is still glowing after making her local debut in Season 2 of Thicker Than Water, which airs on Television Jamaica every Saturday at 9 p.m. The past president...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Helen Mirren is oddly absent from the Harry Potter film franchise that proved close to a full-employment act for Britain’s acting greats. But she’s found her own path into its magical world. Dame Helen, as the Oscar, Emmy and...
What does it take to create a new genre or sub-genre? The answer, according to producer Dale ‘Dizzle’ Virgo, whose multifaceted career has broken ground from this small island, “is a change of one’s entire outlook”. Whether working from the comfort...
NEW YORK (AP): There may be a plethora of adjectives to describe music superstar T-Pain, but boring is never included. So when the idea of writing a book was presented, he knew what he would not be writing: an autobiography. “I want to bring joy...
Songwriter, performer and recording artiste Jesse Royal circumvented the traditional record deal at an early stage in his career, opting first to pursue music on his own terms. Hailing from the rural farming community of Maroon Town in the parish...
Four teams of Jamaican film-makers and writers are bringing powerful, real-life experiences of survivors of gender-based violence to the screen through Spotlight Shorts JA, a project which is coordinated by the Jamaica Film and Television...
For the second time in five years, there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in cinemas. Yet another attempt to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was the 1984 classic. A quality modern-day Ghostbusters seems to be as elusive as the spectres they...
Jamaica’s first blind-dating series, Mask On or Off, is stopping people in their YouTube scrolling tracks to watch pairs of hopeless romantics meet and remove masked layers in a quest to test compatibility waters. The show premiered on November 5...
Renee 6:30 cannot recall a time when she wasn’t singing. Even when she danced on stages across the world, she would have her own mental, mini concert, singing the songs in her mind as she moved. For more than three years now, she has occupied a...
Through his music career and volunteerism, Cleve Aman Laing, better known by the moniker Lt Stitchie, has educated many through his messages of determination, righteousness and unity, making him one of the most respected artistes of the reggae-...
Jon Batiste might be the Grammys biggest surprise: The multi-genre performer and recent Oscar winner made such an impression on voters that he scored the most nominations with 11 on Tuesday. Batiste earned an Album of the Year nod for We Are along...
Queen of Dancehall Spice could hardly catch her breath after singer-songwriter Carly Pearce announced that her debut album 10 was nominated for a Best Reggae Album Grammy. The full list of nominees include Pamoja by Etana, Positive Vibration by...
Published:Wednesday | November 24, 2021 | 12:07 AM
House of Gucci A shocking true story House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we...
Pamoja by Etana, Positive Vibration by Gramps Morgan, Live N Livin by Sean Paul, Royal by Jesse Royal, Beauty in the Silence by Soja, and 10 by Spice have been nominated in the category of Best Reggae Album for the 64th Grammy Awards. The...
Two of Marcia Griffiths’ sons have poured their hearts out to her and sent messages of love on behalf of the family as they celebrate her 72nd birthday today. According to Errol Thompson Jr, the eldest of Griffiths’ three sons for singer-...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world’s largest orchestra. The record was set by 8,573 musicians. In a video released Saturday, Guinness World Records...
Mariah Carey never set out to make Christmas “her holiday”. The All I Want For Christmas Is You hitmaker admitted, while she’s become synonymous with the festive season, she was never trying to capitalise on anything as she instead just wanted to...
