Fully Bright! 10 Dancehall Artists With College Degrees
Graduation season is in the air and meteoric act Nigy Boy is the latest example that one can pursue higher education while doing dancehall music.
Graduation season is in the air and meteoric act Nigy Boy is the latest example that one can pursue higher education while doing dancehall music.
Veteran artist Sister Carol has joined efforts with her daughter Nakeeba Amaniyea to revamp the 1990s Movie Star riddim into the Millenium Movie Star riddim.
Dancehall-reggae icon Sister Carol has teamed up with her daughter Nakeeba Amaniyea for Be Alone, a liberating female anthem on an airy uptempo beat that channels nostalgic lovers’ rock.
Veteran Dancehall deejay Sister Carol says that her career would not have had the longevity it has had if she had opted to go down the “slackness” route, instead of staying on the cultural path.
“When I see a show wid 24 man, I don’t call it a show; I call it ‘a balls fest’.
Veteran Dancehall deejay Sister Carol — the first female Dancehall artist to be nominated for a Grammy — says the announcement of her Lyrically Potent album as one of the Recording Academy’s picks for the 1996 Best Reggae Album, came as a shock to her at the time.
Sister Carol, I Wayne, Agent Sasco, Queen Ifrica, Jah Mason, Natural Black, and Warrior King are set to headline the first-ever staging of Ital Food Fest, a one-day celebration of Ital cuisine, showcasing Jamaica and Rastafari’s role, as pioneers of what has now become the global plant-based movement.
Dancehall icons Sister Nancy, Lady G, 1996 Reggae album Grammy nominee Sister Carol, Shelly Thunder, Junie Ranks and Angie Angel, have teamed up in a six-the-hard-way promotional effort, making it clear to promoters that they are ready to rock stage shows.
Spice recently paid tribute to the women, who were nominated for a Grammy before her, thus paving the way for her nomination for Best Reggae Album at the upcoming 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Still euphoric over her Best Reggae Album Grammy nomination, Dancehall diva Spice has pointed out that she was the first “hardcore” female Dancehall artist to be nominated for the award.