Studio Engineer/Producer Donald ‘Tixie’ Dixon Has Died
The music industry is mourning the death of well-known producer and engineer Donald ‘Tixie’ Dixon who passed away on Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
The music industry is mourning the death of well-known producer and engineer Donald ‘Tixie’ Dixon who passed away on Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
American producer and record executive DJ Khaled is in Jamaica putting the final touches on his upcoming album Khaled Khaled.
Almost two years after the Montego Bay police pulled the plug on Jahvillani’s expletive-laced performance at Reggae Sumfest, his father-in-law Tom Tavares Finson, who is president of the Jamaican Senate, is being pressured, to resign after using an expletive during a sitting of the Upper House of the Jamaican Parliament two Fridays ago.
Reggae artist Ras Ash 1st is a man with big ideas and high hopes that his latest production, 1 August Town Riddim, will ignite a yearning in the hearts and minds of residents of the August Town area for peace and a cessation of hostilities in the community.
Dancehall veteran Bounty Killer is embroiled in a skirmish with some of his fans who have been criticizing his new murder-laced tune Gun Ready, a collaboration with upcoming deejay Machine Lawd.
Bajan superstar Rihanna just made history (again), and as an avid fan of Reggae and Dancehall, she chose a classic Sizzla song to curate the moment on Instagram.
Despite having voiced a series of gun songs in the past, Good Ways singer Sizzla Kalonji is condemning gun violence in Jamaica, arguing that those songs were solely for entertainment and artistic purposes and are not applicable to real-life situations or problem-solving.
Mash Dem Down artist Sizzla Kalonji is encouraging upcoming artists to ensure their catalogue is diverse and not confined to songs which are violent, sexually explicit or otherwise unfit for radio airplay, but instead ensure they also record tracks that are wholesome and family-oriented.
Sizza Kalonji is once again imploring upcoming Jamaican artists to ensure they secure their intellectual property and publishing rights, by engaging in deals that are beneficial to them and not onerous, as has been the fate of numerous entertainers in the past.
Unlike some of his musical counterparts who have chosen to grumble away on social media about lockdowns, mask-wearing and the coronavirus vaccine, Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji has frontally documented his anti-vaccine stance, in a new song tentatively titled No Vaccine.
Reggae star Sizzla Kalonji has never been one to hold his tongue when he feels that there are issues to be addressed, and he certainly did that when he called out fellow Rastafarian artists who he believes are not walking the right path.
In what many may see as an uncharacteristic move, Bounty Killer has become the second Dancehall stalwart, after Shaggy, to urge his fans to take the COVID-19 vaccine, in stark contrast to the anti-vaccine sentiments of Sizzla, Buju Banton, Spragga Benz, Tony Rebel, Chronixx, Kabaka Pyramid and even Reggae legend Lee ‘Sratch’ Perry.
Veteran Dancehall and Reggae entertainer Sizzla Kalonji has described his body of music as one which uses a formula, similar to mathematics, to reach the listeners.
Reggae-Dancehall artist Tosh Alexander is a huge fan of Skillibeng, describing him as one of the most interesting musicians to have come into the musical space in recent times.
International superstar Shaggy will headline this year’s staging of Jamaica Rum Festival which will be a virtual one, starting from March 21, and culminating on March 27, 2021.
Toronto-based rapper Swiss OG is pleased with the initial feedback to his inspiring I’m So Ambitious single which also features Sizza Kalonji.
The music production houses have been working overtime the last couple of days, churning out hot new releases from a long list of Dancehall acts and we have 18 picks this week.
Tony Rebel is the latest Jamaican Reggae artist to publicly declare that he will not be taking the COVID-19 vaccine, when it arrives in Jamaica even if rejecting it, hinders him from travelling overseas.
Dancehall music is governed by different modes of performance, ritual and spectacle. Music industry insiders often point to the lyrical rite of passage undergone by a dancehall act, like a production about badmind, another about marijuana, one about gangsterism, and others coined “reality tunes”.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy’s recent declaration that he would be at the “front of the line” whenever the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available in Jamaica, has resulted in a barrage of comments raining down on him on social media, most ranging from ridicule to trepidation and even outright scorn.