Here Comes Third World Third World, the award winning reggae family from Jamaica, will stir up this year’s Night of 1004 Laughs at the Accra International Conference Centre for another non-stop session of comedy and great music. Scheduled for December 23, the Night of 1004 Laughs, will also feature some of Africa’s finest comedians. Third [...]
Caribbean Queen The movie star treatment begins the moment we step off the plane into the Caribbean heat. Being met on the tarmac by a VIP greeter who gets us waved through customs and into waiting taxis before we’ve even shed our winter coats, it becomes clear we’ve stumbled into the luxury side of the [...]
Stone Love marks 34 years The current Stone Love movements crew of Iceberg, Diamond, Geefus, Billy Slaughter, Bill Cosby and Richie Feelings was decked out in jackets, owner Winston ‘Wee Pow’ Powell was smiling in brown, Bass Odyssey’s Squingy remembered ‘big head Chico’ and Cancer, and there were respects to Rory at Mas Camp Sunday [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Toots is Blessed on Christmas CD Reggae legend Fredrick Toots Hibbert believes he has alot to thank God for and no doubt he will be doing just that as he celebrates his birthday today. Toots has been busy in the studio working on the follow-up to his Grammy-winning True Love album, but he took time [...]