Sean Kingston to perform in Israel this summer
Leading reggae-hip hop star Sean Kingston is expected to join the shower of freign artists arriving in Israel this summer, with a mid-July performance.
Sean Kingston burst into the music world only a year ago, at the age of 18. His song “Beautiful Girls†hit the radio stations and automatically reached the peak of the American billboards and stayed there for three weeks.
“A man’s gift will make room for him” is one of the many promises of the Bible that gospel hip/hop and reggae recording artiste Mark Bailey knows to be so true.
Bailey, who 12 years ago gave up a lifestyle – which included selling drugs – to serve God, said he was never able to write a song before becoming a Christian.
Marshall’s True Story for a June release
Dancehall star Wayne Marshall is currently putting the final touches to his highly anticipated compilation CD, True Story (to drop in June), which the artiste reveals is well worth the wait.
“It’s going to be crazy. It features a mix of my new music but also includes many other artistes doing dubplates, exclusive freestyles and creative skits all in the name of True Story.
Mention reggae and certain names come to mind. The likes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff are just some of them. Unfortunately, because of the label issue, most of them are unrepresented on this three-CD compilation (which only has two songs by Tosh). Some might then ask how it could be called Pure Reggae but it’s still worth a listen or two, and, at only RM39.90, it’s a good bargain.
Buju pleads for other artistes to …CLEAN UP YOUR MUSIC
Popular deejay Buju Banton has issued an emotional appeal to his fellow entertainers to clean up their lyrics in order to help Jamaica to recover from its present social decay.
The deejay, who posted a message in his newsletter, The Gargamel Gleaner, said that the country is presently having a problem with; crime, politics, the dons, the deejays and lesbian and gays.
She is not the typical ‘dancehall queen’ but her popularity soared with the release of the 1997 internationally successful film, Dancehall Queen, in which she played a lead role. She later starred in another popular Jamaican film, Third World Cop.
Audrey Reid’s acting career began to soar when she joined the theatrical troupe, Oliver Samuels and Friends, with whom she toured in the Caribbean, USA and UK. She also starred in Oliver Samuels’ Jamaican television series Oliver at Large.
Attaining street credibility for the average artiste is a lyrical battle that many labour over.
In the dancehall, one’s area code can make or break an artiste, as uptown artistes, especially, may find it difficult to make it initially in the streets.
Listening to your heart while welcoming change signals the genesis of one’s evolution. Through his career in music, singer Da’Ville has willingly opened his heart and soul to new blessings and ideas, which he admits, has contributed enormously to his personal and artistic growth.
Queen Ifrica’s single has substance
Sure, incest and sexual abuse are unlikely subjects for a hit single, but when Queen Ifrica’s “Daddy” took Jamaican radio by storm last fall, she was surprised by demands to ban the tune.
“They were trying to say that I was making it difficult for fathers who had good relationships with their daughters and sons, like I was trying to bring down men,” said the 33-year-old author of the controversial track that includes the plaintive cry, “Daddy, don’t touch me there.”
In this age of cameras probing everywhere and recording what was once considered private and even taboo to venture too far into public, dancehall has brought sex out into the musical open.
This does not mean, of course, that sex is a new topic, any number of dancehall artistes from General Echo to Shabba