Tenor Saw still on dancehall’s roll call Ring the alarm, Tenor Saw is coming. Although this month marks 20 years since his death, the legacy of Clive Bright, one of dancehall’s most influential and unique singers, lives on. Tenor Saw’s death was mysterious. In 1988, the 22-year-old’s decomposing body was found in bushes near a [...]
Rico Mason – Creating a new sound musically The struggle has been on for a long time to thrust soca music into the regional spotlight. It has not been easy. Soca artistes and soca lovers have had to sit back and watch as reggae, reggaeton and other forms of music have been welcomed by the [...]
ICM FEST returns to Florida Caribbean Music Festival (ICM FEST) returns with a vengeance on its original pre-Thanksgiving weekend on November 16, at the historic Virginia Key Beach Park in Key Biscayne, Florida. This popular event has experienced a lot of positive changes since its inception in 1997 as a family fun day, when it [...]
Great Haul of China Jamaica ended a record-breaking medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games with a bronze in the women’s 4×400 metres on the final day of competition for the nation’s athletes at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing yesterday. The island’s contingent here, led by an awesome performance from Usain Bolt, finished with [...]
‘Saving Grace’ relocates dancehall After years of hearing about the negatives associated with dancehall music, Orville Matherson yearned for the day when foreigners would get to see the brighter side of reggae’s outrageous offspring.
He’s putting reggae’s roots on film As Generoso Fierro haggled over some rare records, he realized he might be in over his head when the seller pulled out a machete. But the MIT radio DJ, who was visiting Kingston, Jamaica, in February to show a documentary at the island nation’s first-ever Reggae Film Festival, kept [...]
Adrian Clarke: No stranger to Jamaica The newly crowned King of Calypso Monarch Adrian Clarke says he is no stranger to Jamaica, despite the fact that he has only visited the island once for a performance at the University Campus. “But I have a lot of Jamaican friends – a lot of Jamaican friends!” he [...]
A good rhythm lives twice Remaking a rhythm or duplicating it does not necessarily mean that a rhythm was not good enough but it might be a testament that the first was exceptional. There have been some memorable dancehall rhythms over the past two decades, and recently, there have been remakes of these older rhythms [...]
Reggae Rising Festival unites family and culture under umbrella of One Love’ Thousands of reggae music and culture fans are gathered this weekend in Piercy for the second annual Reggae Rising Festival. New this year is the availability of single-day tickets for Sunday, allowing those who may not be able to commit to the entire [...]
Another successful staging of Reggae Sumfest Reggae Sumfest, the highly anticipated four-day festival kicked off with a bang at the annual beach party on Sunday July 13. Patrons from various parishes plus overseas visitors came out in their numbers to support up-and-coming talents such as Rising Star’s very own Nickesha Barnes and Romaine Virgo.