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Published:Saturday | November 23, 2024 | 12:07 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album. The Grammy winner’s 12-track GNX is the rapper’s first release since 2022’s Mr. Morale...

Published:Saturday | November 23, 2024 | 12:07 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

At this time of year, many are gearing up for the familiar tradition of watching Christmas movies. Red One has emerged as a holiday contender to add to your list. Set in a hyper-militarised operation at the North Pole, it stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’...

Published:Saturday | November 23, 2024 | 12:05 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter

The Suárez Brothers Circus, the largest touring circus from Mexico, returned to Jamaica and officially opened its show on Friday. Before the opening, however, the media were given a sneak preview of what was new this year. On Thursday evening, at...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2024 | 12:10 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Deejay Macka Diamond prayed for a hit song for 2024 and before the year closed out, the dancehall diva scored big with What Can Go So, a single featuring TikToker, Derrick Morgan. Macka is especially delighted about the timing of the success of the...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2024 | 12:07 AMShanel Lemmie/Staff Reporter

Sean ‘Seanizzle’ Reid is no stranger to the Jamaican musical zeitgeist. Since rocketing to fame in 2010 through his One Day Riddim, Seanizzle has been using his wide musical interest to infuse international sounds into his beats. Juggling the...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2024 | 12:07 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Lil Wayne, GloRilla and Camila Cabello are gearing up to make their presence felt in a festive concert series leading up to college football’s national championship game. The College Football Playoff announced Thursday that the...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2024 | 12:05 AM

Fresh off his victory in the 2024 Digicel Rising Stars competition, Akeen Fennell, also known as Akeen Star, is ready to embark on his professional music journey. His debut live performance is set for the Love Jamaica Music and Food Festival at...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:11 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Words like “captivating”, incredible”, “emotional” and “nostalgic” have been used by Gramps Morgan of sibling group Morgan Heritage, to describe how he felt about performing with Buju Banton at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, last Sunday...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:11 AM

Buju Banton, the legendary Grammy Award-winning reggae and dancehall artiste, made his mark once again by delivering a mesmerising performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Sunday show on November 17 marked a significant return for Buju...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The leader of a New York City church where pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed provocative scenes for a music video was stripped of his duties Monday after church officials said an investigation revealed other instances of...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): A federal judge ordered prosecutors Tuesday not to use papers taken from the jail cell of Sean ‘Diddy Combs until he rules on defence claims that they are trial preparation materials protected by attorney-client privilege. Judge Arun...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:06 AM

The inaugural Love Jamaica Music and Food Festival is set to début on November 23, at The Lawns at UWI in Kingston. “This premier event promises to be a celebration of timeless music, featuring a lineup of R...

Published:Wednesday | November 20, 2024 | 12:32 PM

LONDON (AP): The former members of One Direction reunited Tuesday for the funeral of bandmate Liam Payne. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson joined friends and family to at the service for 31-year-old Payne, who died after...

Published:Wednesday | November 20, 2024 | 12:06 AM

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, WICKED makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event. WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars...

Published:Wednesday | November 20, 2024 | 12:06 AMKenrick Morgan/Gleaner Writer

One of the most anticipated aspects of any carnival experience is the theme. A make-or-break decision for any carnival band, the theme sets the tone for events, brand partnerships, costumes, and so much more. It is with this in mind that GenXS...

Published:Tuesday | November 19, 2024 | 12:11 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): The family of Quincy Jones was not sure they wanted to attend the Governors Awards. Their father died two weeks before he could accept his second honorary Oscar, alongside Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson,...

Published:Tuesday | November 19, 2024 | 12:10 AMMichael Reckord/Gleaner Writer

The implementation of the long-held plans of two Jamaican musicians for Caribbean classical music took a big step forward last weekend. Franklin E. Halliburton, musical director and conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Jamaica (POJ), and...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:09 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

When Dr Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques stood to address the University of Technology (UTech) community last Friday inside the Alfred Sangster Auditorium, his first words were not his instantly recognisable, “Dutty, yeah!” Instead the Grammy Award...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:09 AMAnthony Turner/Gleaner Writer

Singer Mikey Spice is exploring the country and western genre with Money Talk, a reggae adaptation of country single Forever in Blue Jeans, by Grammy Award winning singer Neil Diamond. “I don’t just choose songs randomly. I choose songs out of...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors for his upcoming sex trafficking trial, prosecutors claimed in a court filing urging a...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologise for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make The View co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs. Staten...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is brimming with pride that Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2023, Aundrene Cameron, has been named the Jamaica Rhodes Scholar for 2025. “For the JCDC, this marks another impressive rung on the ladder...

Published:Sunday | November 17, 2024 | 12:09 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Country comes naturally to Ringo Starr. It has been a low-key part of his career since his Beatle beginnings, so it was not a serious swerve for him to make a whole country album, the forthcoming Look Up, a collaboration with...

Published:Sunday | November 17, 2024 | 12:08 AMYasmine Peru - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Veteran Reggae singer Everton Blender is thankful to be celebrating his three-score-and-10 years birthday, a milestone that has been fraught with challenges and a bit of intrigue but also filled with many triumphs. Currently residing in Florida,...

Published:Sunday | November 17, 2024 | 12:06 AM

For the late James Bond producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was a true high point in his career. He said as much accepting the prize, a non-competitive honorary Oscar, at the Academy Awards in 1982....

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