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Reggae Gospel singer Kevin Downswell has revealed that he has had to shun many highly lucrative offers to “go secular” during his music career, but that he would not have been as successful as he is had he gone down that path.
While the BBC made much of what it described as Ghana’s “love affair with Reggae” earlier this year, there has seemingly been love lost in Nigeria, where other reports are that the West African country’s Dancehall and Reggae stars, among them Patoranking, have ditched the Jamaican genre, in favor of Afrobeats.
Reggae and Dancehall music producers Mikey Bennett and Kirk “Koolface” Ford were featured in the Positive Vibrations: Country Goes Reggae (Mini Documentary), which is aimed at showcasing how “Reggae music and Country music are both rooted in culture and storytelling”.
Minister Marion Hall says that while she’ll “never go back to being Lady Saw,” she still remains Dancehall’s “baddest” female artist.
Jeremy Harding, playground riddim producer and former manager of Sean Paul, has declared Beenie Man Dancehall’s Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T).
Sean Paul’s former manager Jeremy Harding has rubbished suggestions that the We Be Burnin artist was able to surge ahead of Beenie Man internationally in the 2000s because foreign record labels favored him due to his lighter skin color.
Reggae veteran Max Romeo says he was reluctant to record Wet Dreams, a risqué 1969 UK chart hit, but decided to do so after much coercion from legendary music producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee.
Dancehall and reggae artists have been known for immortalizing their mothers in songs. However, songs expressing love to fathers in the dancehall space, have been few and far between and it is only in the recent past that fathers have been getting some positive highlights dedicated to them.
Supreme Promotions’ Isaiah Laing has admitted that the drama that A’mari “DJ Mona-Lisa” and Queen Ladi Gangsta brought to Sting 2022 had a positive side as it caused the event to “trend” globally for two days in a row.
Supreme Promotions chairman and founder of Sting Isaiah Laing says Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Sizzla, and Capleton are among his “10 giants of Dancehall,” who he wants to grace the show on Boxing Day this year.The
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he recently forfeited a show, just so that he can spend Father’s Day with his children.
I Wayne fans have taken aim at Foota Hype, this after the veteran music selector raised hell on Instagram over the singer’s use of lines about “social media bad bwoy” during the launch of Ital Food Fest, mistakenly claiming the artist was “throwing words at him.”
Dancehall star Agent Sasco says Rastafari has had a significant influence on the type of songs that he writes and records and that despite sentiments from some persons, members of the faith are still respected by himself and many other Jamaicans.
Rohan Marley, the fourth son of Reggae legend Bob Marley, has vowed to vigorously defend himself against a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed in a US federal court by a former employee and Clover Leaf University founder Chloe Villano.
Peter Tosh’s former manager Copeland Forbes is counting his blessings after a near-fatal accident which he said occurred at Junior Reid’s 60th anniversary concert, at Plantation Cove in St Ann on Saturday night.
Action singer Nadine Sutherland has opened up about how drug-addiction rumors, sparked decades ago, when she was at the pinnacle of Dancehall music, plunged her into bouts of depression and almost destroyed her music career.
Hours after rebuking the BBC for, according to him, misrepresenting his utterances and spreading propaganda, following an interview he had granted one of their reporters, “Top G” Andrew Tate took to Twitter to again feature a track from his favorite genre, Dancehall.
Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the musical genre of his song Talibans, Jamaican-born Kittician artist Byron Messia has recanted his recent statements in which he alluded to the track being Afrobeats and now says he considers it “Dancehall” because of its “melodies and creativity.”
Amid a resurgence in demand for LP records, as reported by Billboard’s sales tracker Luminate Data and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), veteran Dancehall deejay Sister Carol is urging her Jamaican compatriots to return to putting their songs on vinyl.
The possibility of male sex offenders being allowed into female spaces, by claiming to be “transwomen”, without undergoing sex-reassignment surgery, has been met with dismay by Dancehall singjay Tanya Stephens.