Mission gone from music If music is truly a religion, as said by Jimmy Hendrix and Ziggy Marley, then reggae music of yesteryear would be a prayer while dancehall is yet to be defined. Reggae music can be heard in any part of the globe, whether it is a little pub in Papua New Guinea [...]
Khristopher comes out of the covers His vocals on the cover of DeBarge’s Who’s Holding Donna Now are so uncannily similar to the original that even industry players have trouble telling them apart. But the singer, who previously bounced around the dancehalls, slipping in and out of the mainstream is now looking to establish himself [...]
Vegas hospitalised again – Swore career was over Dancehall artiste Vegas has been admitted to hospital again following an acute case of pericarditis and gastroesophageal reflux. Sports medicine specialist, Dr. Paul Wright, breaks down the disease in simple terms. He says, “The pericardium is tissue that surrounds the heart itself, so if that is inflamed [...]
Look, up in the ska ‘When I’m on the street postering, people always me what ska stands for,” says Dane Roberts, executive director of this weekend’s Eighth Annual Victoria Ska Festival. “They think it’s a synonym for something.”
Feeling irie Old-school roots reggae is going the way of vinyl and CDs, displaced by new-school dancehall. But international audiences raised on Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals are still paying for concert tickets. So, after the financially strapped Montreal International Reggae Festival cut a new deal with the Old Port
Budding Superstar It may well be a Jamaican export, but reggae music is, of course, by no means exclusive to its country of birth. Having already spawned German talents (think Gentleman), white English talents (think YT) and Jewish, erm, ‘talents’ (think Matisyahu), reggae’s latest export is a proud representative of Bermuda…
Half Pint brings Unity to Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest Thus sings conscious crooner Half Pint on his latest release Unity. It’s a theme he has visited several times over the three-decade span of his career, as fans of One Big Family and Level The Vibes can attest. Half Pint’s sense of the spiritual origins of [...]
Dancehall veterans stand out at ‘sevens Clash’ Sevens Clash, a party marking July 7, 2007, as well as producer and owner of The Candy Shop, Claude ‘Big Stone’ Sinclair’s 50th birthday, began on the landmark date and ended in the early hours of yesterday morning. At least, the music started on 7/7/2007, but with very [...]
Fireball’s ‘What I Want’ heats up European dance chart Fireball has finally gotten what he wants. The burly Laventille-born entertainer, real name Rohan Richards, is sitting atop the European Club Music Charts this week following the release of a reworked version of his 2007 Carnival hit single “What I Want” in France last month.
‘Telephone Love’ connects from England There is so much to say about J.C. Lodge. Let’s skip the obvious, like she sang the all-time favourites Telephone Love, Someone Loves You Honey (the remake) and Love Me Baby, among others. Instead, let’s start with this detail: a conversation with a singer whose music transcends time, but matter-of-factly [...]