JFlying fun with Audrey

She is not the typical ‘dancehall queen’ but her popularity soared with the release of the 1997 internationally successful film, Dancehall Queen, in which she played a lead role. She later starred in another popular Jamaican film, Third World Cop.

Audrey Reid’s acting career began to soar when she joined the theatrical troupe, Oliver Samuels and Friends, with whom she toured in the Caribbean, USA and UK. She also starred in Oliver Samuels’ Jamaican television series Oliver at Large.

Uptowners gaining credibility

Attaining street credibility for the average artiste is a lyrical battle that many labour over.

In the dancehall, one’s area code can make or break an artiste, as uptown artistes, especially, may find it difficult to make it initially in the streets.

Da’Ville: Voice Of Conviction

Listening to your heart while welcoming change signals the genesis of one’s evolution. Through his career in music, singer Da’Ville has willingly opened his heart and soul to new blessings and ideas, which he admits, has contributed enormously to his personal and artistic growth.

Queen Ifrica’s single has substance

Sure, incest and sexual abuse are unlikely subjects for a hit single, but when Queen Ifrica’s “Daddy” took Jamaican radio by storm last fall, she was surprised by demands to ban the tune.

“They were trying to say that I was making it difficult for fathers who had good relationships with their daughters and sons, like I was trying to bring down men,” said the 33-year-old author of the controversial track that includes the plaintive cry, “Daddy, don’t touch me there.”

Out and Raw

In this age of cameras probing everywhere and recording what was once considered private and even taboo to venture too far into public, dancehall has brought sex out into the musical open.

This does not mean, of course, that sex is a new topic, any number of dancehall artistes from General Echo to Shabba