HAVANA (Reuters) – Flora Villareal, 67, part of a cohort of Cubans who graduated from an experimental piano tuning program for the blind and visually impaired in 1970, is still plying her […]
The fact that National Heroes Day 2020 falls on the same day as the birthday of reggae legend Peter Tosh is a coincidence which is certainly not lost on those in his […]
The cover of ‘Toots’ Hibbert’s funeral programme declared that the Hibbert family was “celebrating the life of a legend”, but in reality, there was little to indicate the legendary status of the […]
Dancehall artiste Busy Signal has teamed with London-based Digi Vybz Records for the song Juvie Slow Down. The song, which is featured on the Life Too Sweet rhythm, is set for release digitally on […]
Dominican reggae sensation AbiYah Yisrael has shared a new powerful single “Bloodshed In The City.” In this recording done at ChaYah Studios, she addresses the wars going on in the Middle East and the rest of Africa as […]
A former manager of the late Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert is lobbying for a statue of the late reggae legend to be erected in May Pen, Clarendon, from where he hails. Herbie Miller, […]
Legendary reggae singer Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals fame is now in a medically-induced coma at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Toots, 78, was transferred there yesterday, his publicist […]
As the most recent wave of protests against racial injustice ushered in an already dismal summer, racism deeply embedded across pop culture began to ooze to the surface. Better yet, it was […]
If you watch the credits of Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King and don’t let Disney+ shunt you over to watching CGI big cats, you’ll notice something interesting. Dotted among the songwriting credits for […]
Beyoncé‘s Black Is King, a new visual album which Queen Bey wrote, executive produced and directed, is streaming now on Disney+. The movie experience — based on the music from her album The Lion King: […]
