Ninja Man To Rock The World Ninja Man, perennial concert favourite and co-performer of Shaggy’s monster hit, Church Heathen, has been added to the line-up for tonight’s Rock the World show at the One Love Jamaica Village, Knutsford Boulevard. The concert segment of the show, presented by Pulse, also features Shaggy, Beenie Man, Spragga Benz [...]
How Lloyd “King Jammy” James changed dancehall and triggered the genre’s ’80s evolution The 1980s was a turbulent decade in Jamaica. Government control had shifted from Michael Manley’s socialist-leaning People’s National Party to Edward Seaga’s free market–oriented Jamaican Labour Party. As Prime Minister Seaga tilted the country’s foreign policy to the right, American political and [...]
One to watch Colin Simpson has never had a record deal, sparse crowds have heard him sing a few times and just about three persons knows he has lyrical skills, yet when he walked into Stabroek News on Monday and casually sat on a stool outside, people thought otherwise. “Is he a member of First [...]
Dancehall is Dead I know the uproar that may attend the above utterance but having witnessed, for the ‘umpteenth’ time, the mediocrity that is the hallmark of our popular music scene, I feel compelled to offer my two cents. This does not purport to be a review of Wednesday night’s Rock The World show in [...]
Ninja, Shaggy ignite Spring Break The DongoRgon Ninja Man, Shaggy and Beenie Man were the artistes who ignited the eight staging of the Spring Break Show at Long Bay Beach Park in Negril on Saturday night. Close to 50 acts, including some not originally billed for the event, took the stage in the show which [...]
Jasmine’s Juice Being ‘wined’ (literally) and dined in Trinidad and Tobago for 10 days is truly an experience that provides a feeling of complete and total satiety. Big observation about Trinidad – I have never seen so many people from one country consume so much unhealthy KFC. The heart disease rate must be rampant! In [...]
Buju’s Trelawny ‘Drive’ Dancehall star Buju Banton created the greatest moment of electricity at yesterday’s colourful opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium, bringing the large audience to its feet. Banton, who had previously joined Beres Hammond as part of a cavalcade of stars under the Sly & [...]
Welcome, World! It was truly a once in a lifetime kind of concert and a fitting start for the biggest show ever put on in the Caribbean, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. On a warm Jamaican evening in Trelawny, there were so many stars one could not possibly call allâ but a bit of [...]
No ordinary Alaine! Some say you can’t judge a book by its cover. I think in some cases you can. Especially when you meet people like Jamaican singer Alaine, who is beautiful inside and out. When I arrived at the rehearsal studio in Corinth for my interview with Alaine, I met her signing autographs for [...]
Rik set to Rok Jamaica When Shaggy’s hit song It Wasn’t Me was released in 2001, it catapulted a then amateur singer Rickardo Ducent into the mega star light. Years later Ducent a.k.a Rik Rok is back on his own steam with a new label and a new album. According to Rik Rok, contrary to [...]