Music executive Nolan Baynes says the Grammy Awards are not necessarily curated for Reggae and Dancehall music and insists that Jamaican music professionals either band together to support local entertainment award shows or fully participate in the American system by becoming members of the Recording Academy.
Reggae stars Chronixx, Etana, and Gramps Morgan have declared their support and offered their congratulations to Virginia-based Reggae band SOJA on their 2022 Grammy win for the Best Reggae Album.
Veteran Dancehall singer Eek-A-Mouse says he is pleased with the 25 percent share in royalties that will come from Shaggy’s Mi Nuh Know, which interpolated lyrics from his 1981 hit song Wa-Do-Dem.
It might have been a disappointing evening for some of the Grammy’s Best Reggae Album nominees after Virginia-based Reggae band SOJA copped the category’s golden gramophone but we’re still reeling from their red carpet looks.
There has been a flurry of accusations aimed at the Recording Academy—including those of bias and race-based favoritism—after American band SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) upstaged Jamaican artists Spice, Jesse Royal, Sean Paul, Gramps Morgan, and Etana, to win the Best Reggae Album Grammy Award for their album Beauty In The Silence.
Jamaican megastar Shaggy has revealed that he has two new albums to be released: a Dancehall album and another, which the diamond-selling artist says will not only be a masterpiece, but will be unusual and unexpected, and according to him, his ‘best work yet.’
Update: Shaggy’s representatives have confirmed that Mi Nuh Know was properly cleared through Will Adams with Wise Music, on behalf of Embassy Music (Eek’s publisher) in September 2021, well in advance of the release of Mi Nuh Know on March 18.
At the 27th annual Grammy Awards held in 1985, Reggae music made its historic debut amongst the globally respected genres that have long since borrowed from its creative intrigue.
Overseas copyright holders are still collecting the bulk of royalties paid over by local radio stations for playing music.
Grammy Award-winning superstar Shaggy has managed to get tongues wagging with his latest offering Mi Nuh Know, which sees the Diamond-plus selling artist speaking his mind like never before.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy got a niggling, unaddressed issue off his chest, music-wise—one so bothersome, that he uncharacteristically uttered the F-bomb, not once, but twice, in his newly-released track dubbed Mi Nuh Know, to the amusement and “shock” of some of his peers.
Dancehall star Shaggy has been named in court documents lodged against two event organisers in connection with alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols that took place on a controversial boat trip last summer in Bermuda.
Following the passing of his father Denroy Morgan, Reggae superstar Gramps Morgan took to Instagram this morning to pay a personal tribute to the Reggae icon, and reveal that the Rastaman Rising singer had worked up until the day he died.
Reggae/Dancehall high-rollers Spice, Masicka, and Yaksta scored big musically, at the Reggae Month Irie FM Music Awards on Tuesday.
A slew of Dancehall tracks from the 1990s, Sister Nancy’s 1982 track Bam Bam, and the Jamaican dance moves embedded in her routine, propelled UCLA gymnast Chae Campbell into American history books on Sunday after the second-year student received her first-ever perfect 10 score, using a Dancehall floor routine.
Twenty-one Reggae and Dancehall acts were showcased on the global stage at DJ Cassidy’s special edition of Pass The Mic: BET Afterparty 2022, following the 53rd NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night.
Grammy award-winning entertainer Shaggy is set to headline the ninth installment of DJ Cassidy’s Reggae-themed Pass The Mic: BET After Party, following the 53rd NAACP Image Awards on February 26.
Dancehall megastar and Gulf War veteran Shaggy says he is immensely proud of newly-minted Chief of Defence Staff, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, who is the first woman to head the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF).
Grammy Award-winning superstar Orville “Shaggy” Burrell has made it no secret that he’s a strong supporter of progressive women.
Award-winning record producer, songwriter and musician Nigel Staff has bemoaned the fact that Reggae Grammy nominee Spice could not impact the Billboard charts with her 10 album, despite her former label VP Records spending heavily on promotion.