Ten Dancehall And Reggae Artists Who Also Balance Motherhood
Quite a few of your dancehall and reggae favorites have somehow balanced illustrious careers with parenting.
Quite a few of your dancehall and reggae favorites have somehow balanced illustrious careers with parenting.

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he is not in favor of some of the lyrical content in some of Shenseea’s songs, which go against the grain of Jamaican music culture, and has had a dialogue with her on the matter.

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.

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.

Reggae singer Queen Ifrica has frowned upon Shenseea’s latest single Lick featuring Megan Thee Stallion, noting that it only further solidifies the fact that the younger generation in Jamaica has gone wayward.

Reggae artist Queen Ifrica has revealed the full extent of the fallout from her controversial Independence Grand Gala celebrations on August 6, 2013.

Anytime Jamaica appears to be descending into disorder and degeneracy, the voices of Rastafarian musicians have always served as an incendiary, to compel the country to get ahold of itself.

Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries’ Pastor Kevin O. Smith has a seeming penchant for Dancehall and Reggae artists and their genre.

Queen Ifrica says that when she released her internationally-acclaimed breakout album Montego Bay, in 2009, little did she know that Daddy, the eighth track, which highlighted the longstanding issue of incest in Jamaica, would have been met with anger by some of her own musical compatriots.

Queen Ifrica has empathized with survivors of sexual violence who have come forward to tell their stories, as for her it hits hard, having experienced horrific molestation and sexual abuse herself.

Queen Ifrica has painted an earthshattering picture of Jamaica’s Reggae/Dancehall industry being infiltrated by a set of reptilian villains, who prey on young girls with impunity.

Queen Ifrica is not only about to drop new music, but has taken time out on radio, to call on her Montego Bay compatriots and other members of the Dancehall fraternity to unite, contending that keeping themselves polarized was doing Jamaica more harm than good.

After disappearing from social media last September and seemingly taking a hiatus from public life, the Fyah Mumma Queen Ifrica, dropped Four Women, a Nina Simone cover version on Monday, the anniversary of the 1969 recording of the Jazz icon’s Live from Berkley album.

The legendary Reggae pioneer Toots Hibbert, whose real name was Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, passed away at the age of 77 on September 11th.

Online performances have temporarily replaced in-person concerts, and stage shows because of the coronavirus pandemic. Early concerts were more geared towards raising funds for COVID-relief, like ‘Telethon Jamaica: Together We Stand‘ in April, which featured artistes like Capleton, Marcia Griffiths, and The Marley-clan, and Global Citizen’s ‘One World: Together at Home’ concert which featured Koffee.

Reggae singer Feluké passed away over the weekend, and the talented musician’s death has hit the Jamaican entertainment industry hard.

Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, has revealed that most of the dubplates voiced by dancehall artistes for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), were not commissioned by the politicians, but that several artistes voiced the campaign songs of their own accord and approached the party.

The decision by some top Dancehall artistes to voice dubplates for politicians from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is not going down well with some members of the music fraternity.

Queen Ifrica has been embroiled in a war of words with some of her Instagram followers after the Lioness on the Rise singer questioned why Jamaican hotel mogul Adam Stewart decided to ‘like’ a now-infamous social media post made by United States President, Donald Trump.

The Jamaican music fraternity is adding its voice to the cries for justice of George Floyd.