
Veteran deejay Charmaine McKenzie, more popularly known as Sister Charmaine, has died. She was 53. Her friend of many years, Lady Ann, said the deejay, who resided in the Bronx, United States, […]
Veteran deejay Charmaine McKenzie, more popularly known as Sister Charmaine, has died. She was 53. Her friend of many years, Lady Ann, said the deejay, who resided in the Bronx, United States, […]
Ever since the conclusion of last year’s show, organisers of the annual Ghetto Splash concert had begun putting plans in place for the 2020 staging. Unfortunately, with the COVID-19 pandemic having caused […]
Kanye West is taking the seed Akon planted and hoping it will grow in Haiti. On Monday, West revealed that he’s planning on helping to build a smart city—similar to the one Akon is building in […]
A battle is brewing among musical anthropologists. A plucky new article in the academic journal Behavior and Brain Sciences argues that the prevailing views on the evolution of music are “incomplete or wrong.” In academia, those […]
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, […]