Entertainment

Thirty-two years ago, the modern Caribbean modelling industry was born. Kingsley Cooper, a young attorney, got the idea that Jamaicans could be international supermodels. As absurd as it seemed at the time, Cooper started the Caribbean's first international model agency...

Veteran disc jockey/producer George 'GT' Taylor is the last producer to have recorded Mavado and Vybz Kartel in a positive collaboration, with the single Happiest Days in 2008.

When Khaotik Events were promoting their most recent party, Sexy In Black, they promised that they would have given part of the proceeds to charity and they did. Khaotik Events recently handed over $25,000 to the Excelsior High School cadet corp.

Very early in Thursday evening's launch programme for next year's celebration of Jamaica's half-century of Independence, CHASE Fund CEO Billy Heaven declared that from here on year-long activities will be simply called 'Jamaica 50'.

It is not uncommon to hear recordings in which the voices of performers who are long dead are fused with those of the living to create duets. In Jamaica, it has been done with Tenor Saw and Buju Banton, Chino and Dennis Brown, and Bob Marley and Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill and several others.

Back in 1988, deejay Lady G broke through with the song Nuff Respect, in which she demanded acceptance even though she was a woman from the ghetto. More than 20 years later, the feisty entertainer finds herself in pretty much the same situation.

Zimbabweans set aside their disappointment in the absence of the Godfather of Jamaican soul music, Beres Hammond, last Saturday at Glamis Arena, Harare, Zimbabwe, when Fantan Mojah gave possibly his best and longest performance to date.

The documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey opens this week, about every toddler's favourite red monster and the man who brings him to life, Kevin Clash.

Not since penning songs for Marcia Griffiths 20 years ago has Keith 'Bob Andy' Anderson written a full original song for another artiste. The legendary reggae singer/ songwriter met Dominican opera singer marie-claire in Jamaica last year. He told her on the night they met he would write her a song.

At 24 years old, Peter Wright is intent on raising the bar of musical excellence with creativity and diversity through an unlikely vessel, hip hop.

Between Friends, a sexually charged feature film about Caribbean lives and loves, will soon hit the cinemas. Written, directed and produced by M. Omari Jackson, who is of Trinidadian and Jamaican heritage, the film has already captured the attention...

Yolande Rattray-Wright is proud to claim many firsts in Jamaican entertainment. Among them are the Celebrity Walkathon, all-female concert format and all-black male model/exotic dancers events...