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Tony Rebel has announced that his former partner Queen Ifrica will be on the lineup of Jamaica’s second-largest Reggae festival, Rebel Salute, come January, as she has been doing for more than two decades.
Unlike the 2023 staging, when approximately 60 artists graced the Rebel Salute stage, next year there will be a total of 30 big names in Reggae who will perform for longer periods, which, according to promoter Tony Rebel, is what ‘Saluters’ have been clamoring for.
Reggae/Dancehall veteran Tony Rebel says in spite of what is being touted as the California takeover of Reggae music, the influence of Rastafari on the genre remains relevant, and Jamaican acts still remain standard-bearers.
Tony Rebel has declared his 1991 hit song Sweet Jamaica, a track which venerates Jamaica’s beauty and allure, while outlining the serious issues the island faces, as the unofficial national anthem of Jamaica.
Queen Ifrica has revealed that Tony Rebel had originally written her hit Lioness On The Rise for his Penthouse Records stablemate and Queen of Reggae, Marcia Griffiths.
The words lesbian and Queen Ifrica have been locking lips since last week when Minister Marion Hall claimed that she saw the singer buddying up with a lesbian DJ several years ago.
After 23 years together, Reggae singers Tony Rebel and Queen Ifrica split over one year ago.
Dancehall heavyweights Bounty Killer and Beenie Man will be among approximately 60 artists in a stellar line-up, set to perform at this year’s staging of Rebel Salute, one of Jamaica’s biggest music festivals, scheduled for January 20-21 in St.
Queen Ifrica has made it clear that Rebel Salute, one of Jamaica’s biggest music festivals, the show she co-produces with her spouse Tony Rebel, will be back next year at its home base, the Grizzly’s Plantation Cove in St Ann, after a one-year hiatus.
Fragments of the Reggae classic Ghetto People Song form the nucleus of Harry Fraud’s production on French Montana’s recent track, Higher.
Reggae artist Everton Blender says he’s yet to get any royalties for his 1996 hit Ghetto People Song, which was recently sampled by American rapper-producer duo French Montana and Harry Fraud.
Jamaican Reggae legends Everton Blender and Tony Rebel both say they didn’t know about French Montana and Harry Fraud’s sample of Blender’s classic Ghetto People Song (1996) until after the new song Higher was released on Friday.
Protesters in the British Virgin Islands have drawn for Redemption Song, one of Bob Marley’s biggest political songs and Tony Rebel’s If Jah, to solidify their opposition to plans by the UK to impose direct rule on the territory, following the arrest of their elected leader Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie, on cocaine smuggling charges.
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.
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.
Fresh Vegetable artist Tony Rebel squared off with some of his Instagram followers on Saturday after he praised the anti-vax protesters who appeared in a video clip of a gathering in May Pen, Clarendon.
Dancehall-reggae firebrand Davianah had tongues wagging earlier this week when she blasted a 60-second clip from her new video which showed her disheveled and resolute — lip bloodied from a beating and her face sporting purplish-black bruises — while pointing a gun at a male aggressor.
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.
Ultra talented dancehall-reggae artiste Davianah will be teaming up with Frankie Music for the release of her Rebel OffSpring EP in 2021.