Entertainment

At the thanksgiving service for Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore last Thursday, the Rev. Astor Carlyle asked a serious question, “Which musician will write a song for Cuba? For Haiti? For those whose rights are trampled upon?” Well, William ‘Willie’ Stewart,...

SAO PAULO (AP): While Bad Bunny has dominated global charts, the superstar has not had quite the same success in Brazil, a country notoriously hard for foreign stars to win over due to a devotion to national artistes. But a shift that began with...

Generation Z and millennials, many of them dressed in white, descended on the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts on Ash Wednesday for Reggae Wednesdays Resilient Praise, staged by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA)....

Jhoe Speng has always loved music. Raised in a family that prioritised creative expression, nothing surpassed Speng’s love for music except his love for his twin brother. When the pair started their journey to become recording artistes, it was his...

In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and declares that he’s from the future. “All of this is going to go horribly wrong,” he says. Norm’s...

The year 2026 is off to a flying start for reggae’s Messenger, Luciano, and he couldn’t be happier with how things are progressing. He has already performed at Goa Sunsplash, billed as India’s biggest reggae celebration, completed four shows in the...

AP: Clint Bentley’s lyrical Denis Johnson adaptation Train Dreams won the top film award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles, while Adolescence dominated the television categories. Both were released on Netflix. Bentley...

King of Caribbean Comedy Oliver Samuels will be swapping his comedic crown for a major dramatic role when he stars in Easton Lee’s play The Rope and the Cross. Samuels takes on the role of the shepherd narrator at the Jamaica Center for Arts and...

A three-day event, with legacy and culture as its foundation, makes its début on the Reggae Month calendar this week. Curated by the Bunny Lee Museum, the inaugural Bunny Lee Iconic Reggae Weekend: A Tribute to the Founding Fathers and Mothers of...

Stakeholders in the reggae music industry are being urged to reaffirm the genre’s message-driven foundation, which is “essential to its role in national healing”. The outspoken senior pastor at Fellowship Tabernacle in Kingston, Reverend Al Miller...

The term ‘living legend’ is used too loosely nowadays to describe artistes who have made any sort of contribution to their genre. However, for world-renowned, Jamaica-born pianist Monty Alexander, it is not enough of an accolade to define one of...

Paying tribute to his grandfather and the global legacy he built, Skip Marley has released his own rendition of One Love, honouring the message of unity that defined Bob Marley’s career. The release was accompanied by a video dropped on social...