Artist mixes it up at Whiskey Dick’s Collie Buddz is all over the map both literally and figuratively. Colin Harper was born in New Orleans, grew up on the island of Bermuda (aka “The Rockâ€) and stayed intermittently in Toronto, Ontario. His musical alter ego, Collie Buddz, reflects that upbringing, incorporating influences from hip-hop and [...]
World economic crisis affecting local shows The Christmas season will be a little less cheery for patrons of some of the major shows usually staged at that time. Rumours have been circulating that four major shows ‘East Fest, Reggae Camp Fire, Original Dancehall Jam Jam and Unity Splash ‘will not be held this year.
Peter Tosh’s tribute off The Tribute to Peter Tosh concert which was sche-duled for this Saturday, in the reggae icon’s hometown of Belmont, West-moreland, is off. The annual show, which was absent for the last three years and has been plagued with venue woes, was cancelled after police declared the Belmont site unfit.
Heavy D Returns with Hit Reggae Album Vibes Don’t call it a comeback — more like a return to the righteous roots that nurtured him. Legendary Heavy D, (Dwight Myers) has found himself with one of the country’s hottest new reggae albums, Vibes, released on his own Stride Ent. Label and distributed by Universal Music [...]
J’can CD sales fall worldwide – Downloads, piracy blamed for decline The sales of Jamaican music CDs worldwide are declining, with Internet access and piracy major contributing factors. With the great increase in Internet access, the sale of actual CDs has been declining significantly. In addition, with the easy access to pirated music (bootlegs), fewer [...]
‘Godfather of rocksteady’ Alton Ellis dies Reggae music pioneer Alton Ellis, known as the godfather of rocksteady, has died at the age of 70 in London, England. Officials at Hammersmith Hospital announced Sunday morning that Ellis, who had cancer of the lymph glands, died peacefully Friday night after he had been hospitalized for several weeks. [...]
Complex Blog » Tami Chynn Talks Akon Collabos & Jamaican Tabloids If Shaggy and Sean Paul were the pinnacle of the dancehall’s cross-over success in the mid-to-late ’90s, singer Tami Chynn has the potential to become the female equivalent today. With the exception of Rihanna, singers from the Caribbean have largely been unable to break [...]
Beenie Man arrives late for function to honour athletes; apologises Dancehall artiste Moses Davis, aka Beenie Man, who was one of the special guest performers on Wednesday night’s government-sponsored tribute to the Olympians in Trelawny, arrived when the show was over. A release from his publicist, Ray Alexander, stated that the artiste “unreservedly apologises to [...]
The ‘Mystery Wailer’ joins those gone before Singer Cherry ‘Smith’ Green, dubbed the “Mystery Wailer” by no lesser authority than Bunny Wailer, has gone to join the other departed members of the most famous reggae group ever. Cherry Smith – as she is better known, on September 24 – joined those now regrouping in the [...]
Kris Kelli continues to learn and grow musically Kristen McGregor, known in the music industry as Kris Kelli, recently told SKNVibes in an exclusive interview that she has learnt and has grown in the music industry since she first started in 2003. McGregor was born at the Nuttall Hospital in Kingston, said that when she [...]