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Jamaican model turned-artist Sandra Rose is looking to find her footing in Dancehall with her debut single, Whiplash, and its accompanying music video.
Reggae singer Etana has shown off her deejaying skills on a 90s-style Dancehall track, titled Mirror.
Reggae songstress Etana has suffered another setback in the lawsuit she filed against her former label VP Records and Greensleeves Publishing Ltd (GPL), days after publicly slamming an employee of the company.
The Strong One Etana has come out swinging at Orgasm riddim producer Richard ‘Shams’ Browne, after he approached her asking to record a Christmas song for VP Records, with whom she has an ongoing multi-million dollar breach of contract and copyright infringement lawsuit.
Reggae singer Etana has announced that she’s working on the final album of her music career.
Every week DancehallMag writers highlight new Jamaican songs and videos you should add to your Reggae, Dancehall, Trap, and R&B playlists.
While we can thank Vybz Kartel for giving many of the female talents in this list their ‘big break’ in music, it doesn’t take away from the fact that these women have remained some of the brightest stars in the Dancehall fraternity.
Reggae singer Etana has returned to the fight—with a scaled-down complaint against her former label VP Records over breach of contract and copyright infringement, and a new demand for over US$10 million in damages—after a New York judge partially dismissed her previous complaint last month.
A New York judge has dismissed nine of Etana’s fourteen claims in the breach of contract and copyright infringement lawsuit she filed against her former label VP Records, but he has given the Jamaican Reggae singer two weeks to amend her complaint.
As 2022 gathers the last of its belongings to hit the road, let’s look back at the top music moments of the year for fans of Reggae/Dancehall—the controversies, achievements, viral moments, and sadly, those who passed away.
Weeks after VP Records’ attorneys filed a motion to dismiss, citing multiple deficiencies in Etana’s copyright infringement and royalties lawsuit, the Reggae star’s lawyer re-submitted an amended complaint, which was taken into consideration by the presiding judge, who consequently denied the record label’s request for the case to be thrown out of the New York Court.
Reggae stars Chronixx, Etana, and Gramps Morgan have declared their support and offered their congratulations to Virginia-based Reggae band SOJA on their 2022 Grammy win for the Best Reggae Album.
It is perhaps portentous that the same week that the reggae industry tragically lost two founding members of The Mighty Diamonds, a predominantly white Reggae band won the Reggae Grammy.
Virginia-based Reggae band SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) has won the 2022 ‘Best Reggae Album’ Grammy Award for Beauty in the Silence, eclipsing the five Jamaican nominees and leaving many Jamaican pundits who were predicting that one of their compatriots would have won, speechless.
Updates: SOJA has won the Grammy Award for ‘Best Reggae Album’ Here’s Why SOJA Won The Reggae Grammy Against Five Jamaicans Grammy Awards 2022: Spice, Sean Paul, Jesse Royal, Gramps Morgan Hit The Red Carpet The Grammy Awards are here again after a three-month delay, and back Live for its 64th staging—for the first time at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas tomorrow, April 3.
At the 27th annual Grammy Awards held in 1985, Reggae music made its historic debut amongst the globally respected genres that have long since borrowed from its creative intrigue.
Cedella Marley, Queen Ifrica and Etana are among the seven women handpicked by Medication singer Stephen Marley for his latest production, a seven-track Reggae EP dubbed Celebrating Nina: A Reggae Tribute to Nina Simone.
Grammy-nominated Reggae artist Etana is thanking her lucky stars that her cousin ‘Stenna’ is now recuperating in a stable condition at the University Hospital of the West Indies after he was shot on Sunday.
Grammy-nominated Reggae artist Etana is bewailing the shooting of her mentally ill cousin ‘Stenna’ this morning in August Town, St Andrew, allegedly by a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
Elijah Marley, the 12-year-old son of Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, undeniably stole the show at his grandfather’s 77th birthday celebration last Sunday.