Entertainment

Aidonia gives emotional tribute during energetic set

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2024 | 8:55 AM

Highlighting his 19 years in dancehall, Aidonia delivered a powerful and emotional performance on the first night of Reggae Sumfest. Opening with Trigger Work It, he captivated the audience with a series of his hits, including Banga, Hot Tool, Bad...

YG Marley, Lauryn Hill light up Reggae Sumfest stage

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2024 | 7:19 PMKenrick Morgan/Gleaner Writer -

When multi-Grammy Award winning entertainer Lauryn Hill and her son YG Marley took the Reggae Sumfest stage in St James, Brand Jamaica shared the spotlight right next to them. The duo, along with Hill’s elder son, Zion Marley, share a long, love...

‘Armanii is a performer,' says Walk and Talk

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2024 | 1:20 AMKenrick Morgan/Gleaner Writer -

Despite tensions over comments made on social media regarding dancehall artiste Armanii, social media personality Walk and Talk is making his thoughts on the entertainer clear. “Although me and Armanii nuh really rae, Armanii can perform,” the...

Moses Davis, JaRIA Orchestra create reggae-classical fusion at Jamaica Rum Festival

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2024 | 2:05 AMJanet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: When the Jamaica Rum Festival producers envisioned something fresh, ground-breaking, and distinctly Jamaican, they turned to Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis and the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JARIA) renowned orchestra. The...

Babyface in Jamaica

Published:Saturday | July 20, 2024 | 12:07 AMJ.T. Davy - /Gleaner Writer

Come Saturday, July 20, Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds will grace the stage on night two of this year’s staging of Reggae Sumfest. It is the first time since 2015 that an international act is one of the festival’s headliners. Still, this is not the...

Rapper Sean Kingston and his mother indicted on federal charges in $1M fraud scheme

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 4:30 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud. Kingston, 34, and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, made their first...

Red-hot Notorious dethrone Dynamq, cops Global Crown

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 11:39 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer -

WESTERN BUREAU: Notorious International, the underdog of the five contenders at the start of the Reggae Sumfest Global Sound Clash, created a stunning upset at Wednesday night's event in Montego Bay, as after...

Duke and Duchess of Sussex to honour Tyler Perry

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:08 AM

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be among those paying tribute to Tyler Perry when he receives the Paley Center for Media’s highest honour. The actor and filmmaker will be honoured at the organisation’s gala on December 4, with Prince Harry and...

Notorious International ecstatic over surprise victory

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:07 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Dynamq, the loveable South Sudan native who has been using reggae music to bury his past, which saw him fleeing his war-torn homeland to face the harsh realities of life in a refugee camp in Kenya, turned up at Wednesday night’s...

Movie Review| ‘Despicable Me 4’

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:06 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

In the last 14 years, Gru has certainly been through a lot. The reformed super villain put aside his dastardly ways to become a family man, and now sits pretty with three “gworls”, a wife, and a bouncing baby boy. Life couldn’t be better for the...

5 Questions With Samory I

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:06 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Like many reggae and dancehall artistes, Samory-Tour Frazer’s musical journey had its genesis in the Christian church. Having later embraced Rastafari and subsequently adding that significant ‘I’ to his name, the young roots reggae artiste took to...

New date for Mrs Universe Jamaica comes with exciting surprises

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:05 AMKwela Cole/ Gleaner Writer -

The Mrs Universe Jamaica pageant has been rescheduled due to recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl. The anticipated 2024 title holder will now be crowned on August 24 at the AC Hotel Kingston. The rescheduled date has provided Caribbean...

Reggae Sumfest Street Dance brings nostalgic vibes

Published:Thursday | July 18, 2024 | 12:08 AMRochelle Clayton/Staff Reporter

WESTERN BUREAU: The Catherine Hall multipurpose stadium in Montego Bay was ignited with excitement on Monday as patrons danced and sang the night away at the annual Reggae Sumfest Street Dance. Music was delivered by some of Jamaica’s hottest...

Scammers create AI version of Judy Mowatt to promote fake medication

Published:Thursday | July 18, 2024 | 12:05 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Internationally acclaimed singer Judy Mowatt is completely distancing herself from an online advertisement in which she appears to be endorsing a drug used for hypertension, and is begging persons not to fall prey to it as it is a scam powered by...

Sheryl Lee Ralph nominated for Third Emmy Award

Published:Wednesday | July 17, 2024 | 7:39 PM

Sheryl Lee Ralph has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary. This marks her third consecutive nomination for the role, having previously...

Fun, frolic reigned amid rain at Sumfest Family FunDay

Published:Wednesday | July 17, 2024 | 12:07 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: When Joe Bogdanovich arrived at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre, in Montego Bay, on Sunday, he had a broad smile on his face, the Reggae Sumfest Family FunDay was in full swing, and happy parents and children were out in...

Usain Bolt releases ‘Jamaica all the way’ ahead of Paris Olympics

Published:Wednesday | July 17, 2024 | 12:07 AM

The world’s fastest man, Olympian Usain Bolt, has produced an anthem for Team Jamaica ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Jamaica All The Way aims to rally the nation, capturing the indomitable spirit of Jamaicans as its athletes prepare to compete...

MaXXXine

Published:Wednesday | July 17, 2024 | 12:06 AM

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. KILL He’s no ordinary soldier...

Spectacular Laa Lee working on movie, EP

Published:Wednesday | July 17, 2024 | 12:05 AMAdrian Frater/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall artiste Laa Lee has big projects in the works. The sole major act at Reggae Sumfest’s Family FunDay, which took place at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre, in Montego Bay, on Sunday, the Floating deejay shared that...

Grand farewell to Kingsley Cooper

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2024 | 7:49 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

It was in 1980 that Kingsley Cooper and fellow attorney Hilary Phillips started Pulse, a company that would develop the talents of several well-known models and which became a global force. Four decades later, at a memorial service for Cooper,...

Sweet Festival Song victory for Candy Isaacs

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2024 | 12:08 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Victory is sweet and nobody knows that better than this year’s Festival Song Competition winner, Candy Isaacs. In a highly competitive year when all 10 finalists had songs which Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission,...

Buju makes triumphant return to New York

Published:Monday | July 15, 2024 | 12:08 AMAnthony Turner/Gleaner Writer

Several weeks and hundreds of hours of rehearsals and intense preparations paid off handsomely for Buju Banton, his Shiloh band and his back-up singers on Saturday night when the elder statesman of reggae music performed a riveting set to a sold-...

Etana excited about latest album ‘Nectar of the Gods’

Published:Monday | July 15, 2024 | 12:08 AM

International recording artiste Etana is particularly proud of her latest album, Nectar of the Gods, a veritable smorgasbord of brilliantly curated music that tackles hot-button social issues like suicide, love, new age spirituality and faith. “I...

‘Despicable Me 4’ reigns at box office

Published:Monday | July 15, 2024 | 12:07 AM

AP: Gru and the minions celebrated a second week in first place at the North American box office this weekend, while a small horror movie called Longlegs upset the starry $100-million Fly Me to the Moon. The supremacy of Despicable Me 4 was hardly...

Capleton concerned that prices ‘Gone Up’