I Am Glad SOJA Won!
It is perhaps portentous that the same week that the reggae industry tragically lost two founding members of The Mighty Diamonds, a predominantly white Reggae band won the Reggae Grammy.
It is perhaps portentous that the same week that the reggae industry tragically lost two founding members of The Mighty Diamonds, a predominantly white Reggae band won the Reggae Grammy.
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.
Virginia-based Reggae band SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) has won the 2022 ‘Best Reggae Album’ Grammy Award for Beauty in the Silence, eclipsing the five Jamaican nominees and leaving many Jamaican pundits who were predicting that one of their compatriots would have won, speechless.
Updates: SOJA has won the Grammy Award for ‘Best Reggae Album’ Here’s Why SOJA Won The Reggae Grammy Against Five Jamaicans Grammy Awards 2022: Spice, Sean Paul, Jesse Royal, Gramps Morgan Hit The Red Carpet The Grammy Awards are here again after a three-month delay, and back Live for its 64th staging—for the first time at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas tomorrow, April 3.
Steady on her quest to prove she’s in fact in a ‘different category’ from her contemporaries, Spice shines in new visuals for her previously released Troyton Music-produced song.
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.’
Music insider and producer Sean ‘Contractor’ Edwards is betting that Sean Paul will walk away with the golden gramophone in the Best Reggae Album category at the 64th annual Grammy Awards this Sunday.
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.
Spice was the celebrity guest on last night’s episode of MTV’s Wild N’ Out as the captain of the ‘New School’ team.
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.
Queen of Dancehall Spice’s new track dubbed Love Triangle (Pum Pum) which emerged from her 2017 Reggae Sumfest story-telling performance has piqued the interest of Americans, many of whom initially saw the snippet and found her penmanship and delivery not only intriguing but hilarious.
Jamaican singer Shenseea will be joining Sizzla as one of the headline acts for Reggae Sumfest 2022.
Veteran Dancehall hitmaker Admiral Bailey has fingered payola by unscrupulous radio disc jockeys as one of the key elements which has, over the years, forced Dancehall music on a downward spiral, and held it down for almost two decades.
Grammy-nominated producer and music executive Cristy Barber is maintaining that it is highly unlikely Dancehall will ever get its own Grammy Award category, and that the focus right now ought to be spent on preventing the “Best Reggae Album” field which subsumes all Jamaican music, from being taken away.
Shenseea says she has made several efforts to collaborate with Queen of Dancehall Spice, to no avail.
Amid her social media hiatus, it appears Dancehall Queen Spice is strengthening her relationship with God, after attending church over the weekend.
Reggae/Dancehall high-rollers Spice, Masicka, and Yaksta scored big musically, at the Reggae Month Irie FM Music Awards on Tuesday.
Dancehall diva Spice is at loggerheads with another Minister of Religion, this time a seemingly unperturbed Pastor Stephen Blake—artist and son of Paul Blake, former lead singer of the internationally acclaimed Blood Fire Posse.
In commemoration of Black History Month and to mark the 10th death anniversary of Trayvon Martin, Dancehall artist Spice dropped a new music video on Saturday (February 26) for her previously released single Po-Po that features her son Nicho.