Couples Seeking Out Destination Weddings Christy Lee Hughes wanted her wedding to be a fantasy come true, exchanging vows with Thomas, her husband to be, on a gorgeous, windswept, white sand beach. So the couple looked a few thousand miles south to the Bahamas and booked their April wedding at Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort in [...]
Sizzla Says He And Damon Dash Are The Same, But Different Sizzla is one of reggae’s most prolific artists. For more than 10 years, he’s consistently dropped socially conscious dancehall albums, without shying away from his Rastafarian beliefs. So, when he decided to pair up with hip-hop’s Damon Dash Group, people might have thought he [...]
American drummer rocks on ‘Goat Head’ At the age of eight, Nathan Sabanayagam got his first taste of reggae when he heard the live Babylon By Bus by Bob Marley and The Wailers and Peter Tosh’s Wanted Dread and Alive. He has been hooked to Jamaican popular music ever since. Recently, the 32-year-old Phila-dephia native [...]
‘I don’t watch the Grammys’ Dancehall music has undoubtedly come a far way, so much so, that Jamaican artistes have been penetrating the international market, following in the path that has been paved by the likes of Shabba Ranks and Supercat and, more recently, Beenie Man and Shaggy. According to Shaggy, dancehall music is currently [...]
Hypnotic, freestyling reggae heats up Troc Here’s a note to revelers and party-throwers during this chilliest holiday season: If you have Jamaican Dave as your host – the Tri-State area’s preeminent Jamaican music booker – it won’t matter if it’s 20 degrees outside. Things will get very steamy, very quickly. That’s what happened when Dave [...]
Insurance woes for artistes “Hell yeah its hard for us to get insurance”, stated Ronaldo Evans aka Rumblood, member of dance hall quartet Ward 21 when asked if he finds it difficult to garner insurance as an artiste. “All a dem hard, but car insurance is the worst. Mi nuh know a wha, but dem [...]
Gospel according to Shaggy The world might once again be on the verge of experiencing another ‘monumental hit’ from the multi-platinum selling recording artiste, Shaggy. Shaggy’s latest single, Church Heathen, is already wreaking havoc and creating waves locally and the feeling is that this could be the next big one.
Mumma Saw is back The Queen of the Dancehall is back, Lady Saw has returned better than ever. The first Lady of dancehall has been on an extended break for months, but she’s back in the limelight, filming a new music video for her song Chat to my Back.
Beenie Man rocks the Wildey Gymnasium That’s how patrons described the HOTT 95.3 ninth anniversary concert, which was held at the Wildey Gymnasium last Saturday night. The much anticipated show was opened by seasoned local entertainer, Biggie Irie, who thrilled the crowd with hits from the days of the Splash Band to more popular reggae [...]
Rebel rouser As a producer at Clement “Coxsone†Dodd’s Studio One in the ’60s and later at his own Black Ark studio, Lee “Scratch†Perry played a critical role in developing the steady grooves of ska and roots into the addled atmospherics of dub. He soon became known as much for his intense, eccentric personality [...]