Tributes are pouring in for Dr Carlton ‘Pee Wee’ Fraser, the Twelve Tribes of Israel member who was physician to many of the island’s entertainers, as well as the Reggae Boyz. He passed away at 4 a.m. on Sunday at the Florida Medical Center in Ft...
Sashi, the star-studded, three-day music festival, which was first hosted in 1999, will make its grand return to the events calendar in 2023. Lords of Yard Inc (LOY) boss Horatio Hamilton, whose company was famous for hosting the over-the-top event...
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP): Two days before he was gunned down while buying cookies at his favourite bakery in Memphis, Tennessee, rapper Young Dolph visited a cancer centre where a relative had received treatment. The 36-year-old who grew up on the...
“It’s nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice,” DJ Tiger told The Sunday Gleaner, casually reeling off the lyrics in much the same tone and inflexion with which his real fans had become accustomed. Most importantly, there was just...
“We are all alike,” said Yaksta to the room full of men from the Windsor Farm training programme as part of the Dragon Be The One campaign. The recording artiste, in a reasoning session which was held at the Twickenham Park Training Centre on...
Next Tuesday, November 23, will be a big day in music. The Recording Academy announced that nominations for the 64th Grammy Awards will be revealed by CEO Harvey Mason Jr during a live stream. All the artistes whose songs and albums were placed on...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Controversy is swirling around the Miss South Africa beauty pageant as the government has withdrawn its support for the event because of its plans to participate in the Miss Universe 2021 contest, which is to be held in Israel...
Bob Marley would be making bank in 2021-22 from platforms Youtube, Instagram, and Spotify if he were alive today. This according to a study by money.co. uk , which revealed that Marley would be making "an estimated US$1,667,878 each year from...
Social media personality-turned-entrepreneur Starr Dawkins has taken the fun and innovative approach she uses to turn a concept into a profitable business to the studios. By adding the titles of recording artiste and songwriter to her name recently...
The entire Merritone family is today saluting ‘the big man himself’, Winston ‘Merritone’ Blake, on what would have been his 81st birthday. It will be three glorious days of ‘Merri’ music, fun and frolic as a whole slew of DJs have been assembled...
Koffee’s manager Tammi Chang, has nothing but congratulations for this year’s MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin) nominees. Chang said, “I’d like to say congratulations to all the artistes nominated this year, especially for a noted talent such as...
Subscription-based music streaming service, Pandora, on Tuesday released its ‘Artistes To Watch picks for 2022: The Pandora Ten’, but this year there is a slight difference. In addition to the cross-genre main list, there are lists by genres....
Jamaican duo FRIDAY NIGHT CRU is offering an introduction to their multi-genre style of music on their debut EP, Welcome to Friday. The project premièred on Friday with two tracks, 876 and Come Gimmie, along with accompanying visuals that flaunt...
Published:Wednesday | November 17, 2021 | 12:06 AM
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Have you missed us? From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman come the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small...
NY: Jamaican jazz great Monty Alexander, who discovered the piano at the age of four, is ranked as the fifth-greatest jazz pianist in The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time (Hal Leonard Publishing). At age 77, he is still touring and...
Ragga dancehall still packs some power, says veteran recording artiste Chaka Demus, whose 1980s single, Original Kuff ,became part of the track list for the Starz crime drama series, Hightown. The series stars Monica Raymund as Jackie Quiñones, a...
She is no enigmatologist, but New York City-based recording artiste Disney Amyka is piecing together a musical puzzle, which she says will create one large picture that tells a story designed to make people feel good. The Hawthorne Foundation (...
Following the creation of the Dancehall Dance Association (DDA), core members have made advocating for the rights of street dancers and performers their priority. A recent initiative sees the association working to equip dancers with professional...
Singer Nadine Sutherland and dancehall culture have found their way into a book celebrating the rise of Kamala Devi Harris – the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants – along her journey to becoming the highest-ranking woman in the United...
The Ward Theatre seeps with history. Gifted to the city of Kingston in 1912 by Colonel Charles Ward, this landmark occupies a site in downtown Kingston which has been in continuous use as a theatre since the 1770s. In its heyday, the largest and...
The line “Dis a di season like a Maggie a di sponsor” did its rounds on social media, with hopes that one day it would become an actual track. Lij Tafari Smith did us one better. Not only did he complete the song, he released a music video for good...
Burger King has signalled its support for Jamaican artistes with a donation of $250,000 to the Jamaica Association of Vintage Artiste and Affiliates (JAVAA), which has been having financial challenges as a result of COVID-19 and the restriction of...
LOS ANGELES ( AP ): Britney is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life and money for nearly 14 years. The decision capped a stunning five-month odyssey that saw Spears publicly...
Man to plead guilty in rapper Mac Miller's drug death LOS ANGELES (AP): An Arizona man accused of supplying the dealer who sold Mac Miller the drugs that killed the rapper has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge, prosecutors said on...
Zac Jone$ is a man who wears many hats. On the surface, he’s the rap-singing, genre-fusing genius behind the $tony Official record label, but he’s also a creative force in brands like Bottega Wines...
