Superjam, an annual event held by Pulse boss Kingsley Cooper, has been rejuvenated and has such a line-up. To add to the interest, Cooper announced recently that he had enlisted the services of Busy Signal. After his incarceration, there were many who waited to see if the dancehall superstar had undone all the good work [...]
Sheffield’s musical heritage is a long and varied one. From rock to Britpop to strange stuff on synthesisers it has left something of an imprint on the national consciousness. However, reggae is one form of music that doesn’t spring immediately to mind when you think of steel city. Not that there is no scene, it [...]
Jamaica is the birthplace of several globally recognised musical genres -mento, dub, ska, rocksteady, reggae and dancehall. That is an enviable position for any country’s music industry; however, the feat has slipped the island. “When you go to places like the Youth View Awards it is so Americanised. You see them dancing to Nicki Minaj [...]
Behind the Screen at Tracks & Records on Tuesday treated young patrons to some classic Jamaican music, courtesy of the Captain, Freddie McGregor.The event began with the Big Ship band and Dean Frazer playing some old-school instrumentals. Patrons quickly assembled in areas where they could best see the veteran in action. via Freddie McGregor delivers [...]
In its fight to earn freedom for Mark Myrie, the team, led by Chokwe Lumumba, is starting a campaign aimed at the United States Supreme Court. The campaign, another letter-writing effort, tries to raise awareness about Buju’s drug case and points out the team’s stance against the artiste’s incarceration. On wednesday, Lumumba’s team released a [...]
Prominent Dancehall/Reggae superstar, Busy Signal has returned to the streets of Jamaica after serving his six month prison term in the United States on a charge of absconding bail. The popular entertainer, whose real name is Glendale Goshia Gordon arrived at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Friday night. Busy Signal was met [...]
AARON Talbert, VP Records’ vice-president for Sales & Marketing, thinks the real problem for reggae music at the moment is its failure to produce a new superstar. “What’s happened to reggae is that we have not broken a new artiste since Sean Paul in 2002,” Talbert said to the Jamaica Observer at last Friday’s launch [...]
How did the brand, scourge of schoolchildren, become the music genre’s footwear of choice? A new book about this strange love affair explains why Kingston’s reggae stars regularly travelled to buy up the Somerset firm’s wares via Clarks, the shoes that tap to Jamaica’s reggae beat.
In the glorious eras of the 1980s and ’90s of reggae/dancehall music, there were various recording artistes who held major sway in the Jamaican music industry.Many of the artistes of the era were so good at their craft, that some music lovers will argue that local music was at its best in the ’80s and [...]
One of the most popular and controversial books documenting the life of late Jamaican Reggae legend, Bob Marley will hit the shelves for a second time in the New Year. Marley and Me: The Real Bob Marley Story has been scheduled for a February 2013 re-release by Kingston-based publishing house, LMH Publishing. The second edition [...]