National artiste collaborates with Beenie Man
National artiste, Dave “Junior Osbourne†Osbourne, informed Sun St. Kitts/ Nevis about his latest tune, Girls Rush, with famous Jamaican/dancehall reggae artiste, Beenie Man (king of the dancehall) and Kirk Davis.
Osbourne is originally from Jamaica but has been residing in the Federation for more than 18 years now.
VP Records to close Kingston office?
Everybody’s been talking about it. The fact that music mogul, VP Records has plans to close its office located here in Kingston.
This office is run by their hard-working and vivacious marketing manager, Yolan Zanders, who has been the face of VP Records locally for some time now.
Reggae crooners eager to tour Zim
Top Jamaican reggae crooners are eager to tour Zimbabwe after fellow countrymen Luciano’s maiden visit to Harare last year proved an eye-opener, an international promoter has said.
Trevor Hall, otherwise known as Ras Jabulani, told city.com this week that fellow Jamaicans had approached him on several occasions with intentions to hold a series of shows in Zimbabwe
Tenor Saw still on dancehall’s roll call
Ring the alarm, Tenor Saw is coming. Although this month marks 20 years since his death, the legacy of Clive Bright, one of dancehall’s most influential and unique singers, lives on.
Tenor Saw’s death was mysterious. In 1988, the 22-year-old’s decomposing body was found in bushes near a road in Houston, Texas.
Rico Mason – Creating a new sound musically
The struggle has been on for a long time to thrust soca music into the regional spotlight. It has not been easy. Soca artistes and soca lovers have had to sit back and watch as reggae, reggaeton and other forms of music have been welcomed by the international world while soca music continues to put forth even its little toe to the outside world.
Caribbean Music Festival (ICM FEST) returns with a vengeance on its original pre-Thanksgiving weekend on November 16, at the historic Virginia Key Beach Park in Key Biscayne, Florida.
This popular event has experienced a lot of positive changes since its inception in 1997 as a family fun day, when it was originally billed as the “Reggae Bash†and held at the AT&T Amphitheatre, with a lineup that is still being talked about today.
Jamaica ended a record-breaking medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games with a bronze in the women’s 4×400 metres on the final day of competition for the nation’s athletes at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing yesterday.
The island’s contingent here, led by an awesome performance from Usain Bolt, finished with a record 11 medals – six gold, three silver and two bronze – beating, by four, the previous highest tally of seven at the Sydney Games in 2000.
‘Saving Grace’ relocates dancehall
After years of hearing about the negatives associated with dancehall music, Orville Matherson yearned for the day when foreigners would get to see the brighter side of reggae’s outrageous offspring.
He’s putting reggae’s roots on film
As Generoso Fierro haggled over some rare records, he realized he might be in over his head when the seller pulled out a machete.
But the MIT radio DJ, who was visiting Kingston, Jamaica, in February to show a documentary at the island nation’s first-ever Reggae Film Festival, kept his cool. He threw down 6,000 Jamaican dollars (worth about $100 at the time) and got 15 records.
Reggae’s Steel Pulse still beating strong
David Hinds, founder of the Grammy Award winning reggae band Steel Pulse, spoke recently with The Chronicle’s Shelah Moody about the origins of one of the band’s most popular songs, “Raid I Blues.”
After 30 years, the band is still selling out concerts around the world and are scheduled to perform Friday, Aug. 22, at the San Francisco Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park.