Jah Cure is not the father of ten-month-old child Singer Jah Cure is now requesting privacy following DNA test results that revealed that he is not the father of a child as was previously claimed. The singer yesterday released a statement after getting the results of the paternity test on Tuesday. There has been ongoing [...]
Giant Panda leads the way of the new reggae When Bob Marley wrote “Roots Rock Reggae” and “Punky Reggae Party,” he couldn’t have fully foreseen the cross-pollination that would so utterly transform the music he had helped to pioneer and the broader pop culture that would embrace it. At the end of the 1970s, Marley [...]
Shabba returns on VP CD set Before he signed with a major American record company and became the ‘Grammy Kid’, Shabba Ranks was king of the Jamaican dancehall circuit and he earned that title by racking up a number of hit songs in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of those songs (44 to be [...]
Ashley Martin speaks about Byron Lee, going solo and Jazz Fest “I felt like my belly was ripping out,” was the passionate, teary-eyed recollection of Ashley Martin, female lead singer of Byron Lee & the Dragonaires as she revisited that Saturday in November 2008 when the Dragon was laid to rest. “Nobody could understand why [...]
‘Haffi mad it up’ says Sean Kingston of Coke Zero Concert If recording artiste Sean Kingston has his way, this Saturday’s Coke Zero concert in Kingston will be “off the chain”. Speaking with Splash from his base in Florida, the singer — best known for his chart-topping hit, Beautiful Girls — says he will definitely [...]
CatEyes here to rock Jamaica She might be based in Boston, Unites States (US), but Rochelle ‘CatEyes’ Farquharson is looking to take the Jamaican music scene by storm. The 23-year-old has been around music from the age of four when she began tagging along with her dad and mom, Edgiton and Michelle Farquharson, to Anchor [...]
Bringing a better vibe – Kingston has big plans for Jamaica concert International hitmaker Sean Kingston, at only 19 years old, is a busy man. Months after the release of his sophomore album Tomorrow, the youngster is already moving on to his next, launching his own label and has his hands in a number of [...]
Overseas appeal for Jamaican acts declining? Late last year Charles Campbell, after a trip to Europe, reported in the pages of this newspaper that he was quite worried that while the appeal of Reggae is on the rise, internationally, the appeal overseas for Jamaican acts is on the wane. What could account for this apparent [...]
Tony Rebel makes plea to cleanse dancehall Germany’s Adolf Hitler, France and the US taught the world about violence and sex charged event organiser Tony Rebel in a plea to cleanse dancehall of explicit lyrics. Explicit dancehall, his argument suggested was not marketable in Europe and contributed to poor US sales in 2009. “You can’t [...]
Melodians keep rocksteady alive As a general rule with rocksteady — the post-ska, pre-reggae form of Jamaican vocal music — if a group’s name ends in “-ians,” it’s worth a listen. There are exceptions; some bands without the distinction aren’t bad either, such as legendary rocksteady acts the Maytals, the Hepcats, the Gaylads and the [...]