Marshall’s True Story for a June release Dancehall star Wayne Marshall is currently putting the final touches to his highly anticipated compilation CD, True Story (to drop in June), which the artiste reveals is well worth the wait. “It’s going to be crazy. It features a mix of my new music but also includes many [...]
Review: Pure Reggae Mention reggae and certain names come to mind. The likes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff are just some of them. Unfortunately, because of the label issue, most of them are unrepresented on this three-CD compilation (which only has two songs by Tosh). Some might then [...]
Buju pleads for other artistes to …CLEAN UP YOUR MUSIC Popular deejay Buju Banton has issued an emotional appeal to his fellow entertainers to clean up their lyrics in order to help Jamaica to recover from its present social decay. The deejay, who posted a message in his newsletter, The Gargamel Gleaner, said that the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Compilation CD Features ‘The Best Of’ Lucky Dube’s Music Music fans who mourned the death of reggae icon Lucky Dube in October last year should be pleased to hear his record company has released a compilation of his greatest hits. The 17-track CD is titled Lucky Dube – The Best Of. It features all [...]
Billy Ocean Inducted Into International Reggae Music Hall Of Fame Trinidad & Tobago-born, UK raised singer, Billy Ocean, was Sunday night inducted into the International Reggae & World Music Awards Hall Of Fame. The singer, whose real name is Leslie Sebastian Charles, was honored for his lengthy years of service to the music industry at [...]