When Dancehall star Shenseea said she was ‘way too blessed,’ she certainly wasn’t lying. On the heels of her MOBO award for Best Reggae Act, the 25-year-old was named the 2021 Breakout Awards Globetrotter winner on Sunday during LiveXLive’s award show.
Dancehall artist Quada has confirmed splitting from Popcaan’s ‘Unruly Camp’. Quada, who is now the CEO of his own music label Wellbad Entertainment, told Winford Williams in an Onstage TV interview over the weekend, that even though the exit was amicable, he has “leveled up” and now manages his own career.
Culture and Development specialist, Professor Carolyn Cooper, says up to this day, 10 years after she invited Vybz Kartel to deliver his Pretty Like a Colouring Book: My Life and My Art lecture to students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus, she is still being vilified by many Jamaicans for her decision.
Celebrity music video director, child., says working with Grammy Award-winning Reggae artist Koffee was pure bliss.
Acclaimed veteran music producer Lloyd “King Jammy” James has commended producer Clevie of Steely & Clevie Productions for filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Despacito singer Luis Fonsi for infringing on their intellectual property rights.
Ghananian Gospel Singer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Wegeiwor Aseweh, has declared that nobody can do a good Reggae song unless they are “intelligent”.
Legendary music producer Clive Hunt has said that he not only gave J.C. Lodge her moniker, but that he masterminded her 1980 cover version of American singer Charlie Pride’s Someone Loves You, Honey, the song which resulted in the undoing of Jamaican music producer Joe Gibbs.
Bounty Killer, on Monday, recalled a momentous occasion at the now-defunct annual Sting stage show back in 1993.
With the upsurge of crime across the island amid serious societal ills, reggae singer Chris Demontague has released a Christmas song dubbed ‘Silent Night’ that appears to capture a dark, chilling snapshot of a country struggling with serious moral decay, even as Christmas approaches.
Grammy-winning Dancehall artist Sean Paul has confirmed that he has teamed up with yet another international Pop sensation, this time British singer and actress Rita Ora.
Grammy-nominated Reggae veteran Maxi Priest has added his voice to the conversation sparked by the emerging Dancehall act Jahshii.
With Reggae and Dancehall music now fully rooted in Ghana, and visa-free travel between Jamaica and the West African country now in place, PinexGinja, a Beyond The Return event, is coming in for an encore in Accra, Ghana’s capital, on Christmas Eve, under the theme ‘Dancehall 4EVA’.
Sean Paul released another cross-genre collaboration with Romanian singer Inna, which kicks off our top picks for your Reggae and Dancehall playlist this week.
Jamaican superstar Chronixx says he has evolved from being the teenaged ‘Dancehall principal’, into a more reflective artist, akin to the likes of Reggae icons, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, and American Country legend Willie Nelson.
Two 2021 Best Reggae Album Grammy nominees Spice and Gramps Morgan were among the ‘distinguished guests’ who repped for Jamaica at The American Immigrant Society’s cultural showcase of the Republic of Turkey, Jamaica, the Republic of South Africa and Japan, which took place in New York City on Wednesday.
In the aftermath of Jahshii’s controversial Television Jamaica interview, producer Johnny Wonder has announced that the 21-year-old is making big musical moves, via an upcoming collaboration coming with 2015 Best Reggae Album Grammy Award winners Morgan Heritage.
It is no secret that former President of the United States Barack Obama is a fan of Jamaican music.
After squashing their decade-long beef last summer, Dancehall deejay Lisa Hyper made a second appearance on Spice’s Magnum TV show, Spice It Up, to discuss their cosmetic surgery journeys.
Former Dancehall Queen Lady Saw turned gospel artist Minister Marion Hall says some of her former fans have been fighting her career since her switch from secular music.
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online launched its new expansion The Contract this week and songs from Dancehall’s very own, Popcaan, Likkle Addi, and Likkle Vybz were added to the game’s playlist.