St. Maarten promoted on Jimmy Cliff’s new video The new music video featuring Jimmy Cliff and other renowned reggae artists that was shot on St. Maarten last year has been finalized and will be aired soon on the international music channel MTV. Marques Banister, CEO of Lionhead Production, said the clip, featuring local scenery, hot [...]
Jewish rapper rouses faithful Admittedly, the concept of a Hasidic Jewish reggae singer is an odd one. Stranger yet is the notion of such a performer opening for pop-rock’s Dave Matthews Band. Last night, as Matisyahu took the stage at the Molson Amphitheatre, it all made sense.
Bright end to Bounty’s party Bounty Killer’s 2006 birthday celebration came to a bright end yesterday morning; not only had daylight come up by the time ‘It’s Tha Party’ closed, but the furious exchange of lyrics among Aidonia, Sizzla, Vybz Kartel, Elephant Man, Movado, Wayne Marshall, Bling Dawg, and Bounty Killer lit up the large [...]
Beenie Man and Akon’s video for Girls has been released Despite the meteoric success of Hmm Hmm, US-based major label, Virgin Records has decided to release the entertaining song Girls (featuring stylised singer Akon) as the first single from Beenie Man’s upcoming album Undisputed.
Veteran singer Ruddy Thomas dies Jamaican music lost another of its stalwarts on Saturday night when Ruddy Thomas collapsed on stage while performing as part of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Popular Song Contest show in Portland.
His reggae is hardly unorthodox He’s a rising reggae star who connects the Old Testament to new school hip-hop riddims. He’s an American-born Orthodox Jew who spouts spiritually conscious lyrics, boasts impeccable Jamaican bona fides and gets regular airplay on alternative radio. And his name isn’t Matisyahu.
What honour for the Sunsplash founders? A little over a quarter of a century ago, four enterprising Jamaican reggae aficionados had the vision of staging a summer reggae festival which would lure visitors to the island and exposing them to the pulsating Jamaican beat while they soaked up the sun, sea and sand and Jamaican [...]
Madussa mix-up The woman who calls herself the ‘original Madussa’ says she doesn’t appreciate sharing the name with another woman who frequents the popular street dance ‘Passa Passa’. ‘What’s in a name?’ one may ask. Well, the problem is that the other woman – who we will henceforth refer to as ‘Madussa 2′ – is [...]
Reggae Vibe Rocks the Holy Land Young Israelis sporting dreadlocks and wool Rastafarian caps rocked to the beat of homegrown Hebrew reggae bands at a recent music festival, a sign of reggae’s steadily increasing popularity here. Kibbutz Tseelim, a tiny community in Israel’s Negev Desert, welcomed 1,600 reggae fans to its second annual Spring Festival_ [...]
Where’s the ‘Love’? Ziggy says only at Target To find Ziggy Marley’s new CD, aim for the big red bull’s-eye. In an exclusive distribution deal, Marley’s second solo album, “Love Is My Religion,†will be sold only at Target stores. The CD, which will be released July 4 and sell for $9.99, marks the first [...]