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Manchester native Evy Royal, known for his humorous Instagram skits, which capture the essence of rural Jamaican life, culture, and psyche, transcended digital boundaries when he was hand-picked to star as a rogue, in Trap-Dancehall artist Rygin King’s 2021 hit Squeeze Trigga and an embattled office worker in Chronic Law’s Choices earlier this year.
The inaugural staging of Whirlwind International’s Dancehall Road March unfolds in Kingston today, with the Police Officer’s Club as the starting point before revellers trek down to the MECA nightclub.
A year after an aggrieved Bounty Killer had expressed disappointment with Sting and said it had “flopped” the warlord has now thrown his full support behind the event, which is set for Boxing Day, Tuesday, December 26 at Jamworld in St Catherine.
Nah Sell Out artist Khago contends that the local radio and television stations are not pushing “good music.”
Dancehall artist Deno Crazy says he’s no bank, but he surely made it rain on a group of windscreen wipers whose Christmas came early thanks to his generosity.
Dancehall star 10Tik delivered an electrifying performance at the Bhim Festival in Accra, Ghana on Friday.
Unruly Fest—the highly anticipated concert spearheaded by Dancehall star Popcaan—came to an anticlimactic end due to orders from the police, which saw the entertainer publicly expressing outrage.
One of the leading producers in dub reggae’s second generation, Mad Professor, is to host a one-off celebratory music showcase and life-spanning art exhibition calling attention to his storied career.
Thursday, December 21, marked the 30th anniversary of the murder of Dirtsman, the Dancehall artist, best known for the hit song Hot This Year, who had his career cut short when four gunmen took his life in 1993.
Jamaican producer Melio Sounds recently shared how one of his beats caught Nicki Minaj‘s attention on Instagram, leading to a collaboration on the rapper’s latest album, Pink Friday 2.
Toots & The Maytals’ 1973 Reggae cover of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads is included on the soundtrack for Mark Wahlberg’s new action comedy, The Family Plan.
Rastafarian firebrand Anthony B has come a long way from being a naive country boy out of Clark’s Town, Trelawny, inspired by Reggae legend Peter Tosh‘s roots message and ‘gangsta’ deejay Ninjaman‘s innovation.
Dancehall singjay Macka Diamond has been blazing up stages for more than 30 years, no doubt contributing to her engaging ease as a performer.
Capleton has recalled that it was his St. Mary compatriot Ninjaman who unintentionally forced him to take Dancehall music seriously after the Don Gorgon ‘snatched’ his Long Fi Release lyrics and recorded them whilst he (Capleton) was working full-time at a shoe store in Kingston.
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.
A viral video of Dunce Cheque artist Valiant performing his raunchy Mad Out and Siance songs for students of the Rollington Town Primary School in Kingston on the grounds of the institution has resulted in one shocked radio disc jockey demanding an apology from the school’s principal.
Gully Bop will be buried on January 14, 2024 after a thanksgiving service for the Dancehall star’s life in a church in King Weston, a district in west rural St.
Dancehall veteran Grindsman said he had experienced a career resurgence in 2010, when Vybz Kartel flipped his 1990 track Benz Punaney.
Jamaican superstar Koffee has affirmed that she is not a Rastafarian, explaining that she has switched from being a pescatarian (someone who adds seafood to a vegetarian diet) to eating various types of meats, including pork.
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.