NEVILLE WILLOUGHBY: MAY 5, 1937 – DECEMBER 20, 2006 – ‘Uncle Neville’ will be missed – Veteran broadcaster, radio icon, succumbs to injuries Neville Willoughby, who died yesterday at the University Hospital of the West Indies, has been celebrated as one of Jamaica’s premier broadcasters whose career spanned almost five decades. Willoughby, who was 69 [...]
Female DJs paid less Female entertainers are fighting for respect in the dancehall. Often accused of being too raw and stifled creatively, females have it hard in the male-dominated enter-tainment industry. Despite performing as vigorously as their male counterparts, the females are earning less money for their work. Despite mashing up an arena, having the [...]
Stars in Action – except Bounty Dancehall veteran Ninja Man, threw down the gauntlet to his younger counterparts at last Saturday’s Stars In Action which was held at the Kirkvine Sports complex in Manchester. The front-teeth, gold-teeth Don Gorgon was in his most quarrelsome element as he delivered scathing attacks during his stint on stage.
Respect for Supercat, regret for Shabba Sting, it seems, has always been a show for Ninja Man, whether it is for clashes, handing over a gun or sheer showmanship. Long before he was running into a cartel around Vybz Kartel in 2003, Ninja Man was involved in real clashes, where lyrics, not numbers, counted. As [...]
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 [...]
Sizzla Says He And Damon Dash Are The Same, But Different Sizzla is one of reggae’s most prolific artists. For more than 10 years, he’s consistently dropped socially conscious dancehall albums, without shying away from his Rastafarian beliefs. So, when he decided to pair up with hip-hop’s Damon Dash Group, people might have thought he [...]
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 [...]