Producer Dean Fraser upbeat about new Tarrus Riley album project

Singer Tarrus Riley’s newest album, scheduled for a March 2009 release, will feature collaborations with Jnr Gong, Etana, Allison Hinds and Demarco.
RILEY… album scheduled for a March 2009
It’s the crooner’s first album in three years, and currently Riley is recording at Grafton Studios in Kingston.

CD release honors reggae’s ‘crown prince’

No less an authoritative figure than Bob Marley dubbed Dennis Brown “the Crown Prince of Reggae,” and throughout an extraordinary career that began at age 13, he was arguably the genre’s finest pure singer.

His velvet voice was always rich, resonant and alluring, and Brown’s proficiency with ballads and love songs […]

Addi is still Aidonia’s daddy

Deejay Aidonia and his musical father, Vybz Kartel, are not ‘at war’, despite rumours of a rift between the two.

The rumours began last week with the release of an Aidonia song, titled Matic Nah Laugh,in which the artiste supposedly ‘disses’ Vybz Kartel. Aidonia, however, is denying that there is any animosity […]

Fredlocks makes album in tribute to Dennis Brown

Although he is not regarded as a prolific hit-maker, the record shows that Fredlocks has scored two of the biggest reggae hits. Given that fact, history will also recall that, when reggae music was dominated by culturally- aware messages, he was one of its foremost messengers.
Fredlocks… when all […]

Reggae Jammin Vol 1 singers’ roll call

Although there is definitely a deejay presence on the Tad Dawkins-produced Reggae Jammin Volume 1 - Lady Saw, Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel, Anthony B, D’Angel and Aidonia - it’s really the singers who dominate.

Led by the master, Beres Hammond, with the Flava-produced single I Surrender, which is also on […]