On Tuesday, the International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) will hold a nomination press conference to reveal nominees for the 39th award. The virtual conference, hosted by multi-IRAWMA winner/nominee and Grammy winner, Gramps Morgan, is...
Reggae crooner Beres Hammond and dancehall hitmaker Popcaan sent chills down the spines of many by performing their God Is Love single for the Love From A Distance livestream concert, and earlier this week delivered the full project, which included...
During the decade of the 80s, among the dancehall songs that jockeyed for dominance was Modern Girl by singer Courtney Melody. Rising to anthemic status over the years, it is the artiste’s signature song, and even today, it is guaranteed to take...
The Simón Bolívar Cultural Centre is premiering a special edition of Carib-Lat Got Talent with a feature interview of Glen ‘Titus’ Campbell, live on the its Facebook page at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Campbell is a well-known actor and comedian who has...
In an industry where emerging recording artistes are pressured to put out music to fill a party playlist, Gabriella Kochella is defying expectations by taking her time. She’s been quietly uploading her signature reflections on love and life to...
At 85 years old, Lee Scratch Perry has outlived many of his rivals and experienced several generations of reggae and its transformers - him being one of the eccentric characters to reshape the genre, too. Waiting on the music producer and artiste...
HBO is developing another three Game of Thrones spin-offs. The network is currently working on a trio of prequels, which will all be set before the events depicted in the fantasy drama series – which ended in 2019 after eight seasons - and will...
Cardi B wants to be a “billion-dollar woman” like Rihanna. The Up hitmaker – who has two-year-old daughter Kulture with husband Offset – said she looks up to artistes like the 33-year-old Work hitmaker and hip hop superstar Jay-Z, 51, who have...
Even as dancehall artiste David ‘Mavado’ Brooks joined the list of artistes plunged into mourning for the loss of their mothers, moves to extend the olive branch by colleagues, mainly Bounty Killer and Popcann, are being hailed as positive. It...
NEW YORK (AP): A group of New York City exotic dancing clubs sued New York state on Thursday, saying that it is not fair that they are being kept closed when everything from axe-throwing venues to bars with live music and casinos can open up. The...
Dancehall star Konshens will be very present these next few months with new music, and he’s turning up the sound today in a major way with the release of the hard-hitting, say-it-like-it-is single Can’t Stay Sober. Paradoxically, the message on...
For recording artiste Answele, the rise to stardom is beginning to feel inevitable, but that is not his only focus. His music is getting support from some of the bigger names in Jamaica’s musical landscape. Earlier this year, a single titled Jah Is...
Michelle Obama is delighted that Viola Davis is playing her in The First Lady. The Oscar-winning star will portray Obama in the upcoming drama series, but the wife of former President Barack Obama doesn’t feel she is “worthy” to be played by...
Idris Elba has added author to his curriculum vitae after signing a global multi-book deal with HarperCollins for a series of children’s books. The 48-year-old actor, DJ, producer, songwriter, and rapper is set to publish picture books and fiction...
Between her strong stage presence and the charisma with which she delivers to captivated audiences, it is difficult to imagine Miss Kitty as anyone other than the energetic character-playing host on some of Jamaica’s major entertainment platforms....
The words of Marcus Garvey may be found in the lyrics of reggae’s most profound lyricists. From Bob Marley, whose Redemption Song takes the phrase “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds,” from a 1937 speech...
It was a bitter-sweet moment for Charmaine Hibbert-Fenton on Sunday when she heard the news that her uncle Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert and his Maytals band had won the Grammy Award their album Got To Be Tough. In an interview with The Gleaner, she...
After what he says was a “very rough year”, veteran sound system owner Winston ‘Wee Pow’ Powell, who celebrates his birthday today, is understandably not in a celebratory mood. Nonetheless, he will ring in the milestone at his Burlington Avenue...
New York Tri-state area deejay, Ras Emmanuel, is sitting at the number one spot for the second consecutive week on the New Jersey Reggae Chart Fresh 92 Top Ten, with his engaging single, Mad Love for You. The song is a tribute to wives, mothers,...
The 2021 staging of the Jamaica Rum Festival will feature a series of interactive and educational online seminars from March 22 to March 26. Dr Joy Spence, master blender of Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum, and the first woman to hold the title...
NEW YORK (AP): Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films, including the James Bond movie Live and Let Die and Alien, has died. He was 81. Kotto’s wife, Tessie Sinahon, announced his death on Monday...
NEW YORK (AP): Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled due to the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead. The French Riviera festival on Tuesday announced that Lee...
NEW YORK (AP): Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The nomination for Best Actor was widely expected but still historic....
A dream about his father woke Junior Toots up in the middle of the night, and left him feeling reinvigorated with new ideas for music. The singer and youngest son of the second-time Grammy Award winner Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert says it was vivid –...
