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Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced an annual “modern music grant” for Reggae and Dancehall entertainers and musicians, to pursue what he has described as their “professional advancement”.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul is happy to be back on stage after his hiatus due to the pandemic.
Veteran Dancehall deejay Mr. Lexx is working on his final album before retirement from the industry.
Romantic Call singer Patra has teamed up with Dancehall producer Ainsley ‘NotNice’ Morris to record tracks, ahead of her official return to music, after a years-long hiatus.
The song Faith, from Skip Marley’s 2020 Grammy-nominated EP Higher Place, is featured in Our Great National Parks, a Netflix docuseries scheduled to commence on April 13.
Afropop star Wizkid has sold over 100,000 units in pure sales and audio streaming in the United States for his collaborative single True Love which featured Jamaican singer Projexx and Nigerian singer Tay Iwar.
Sizzla Kalonji has come out in support of attorney-at-law Hugh Small, who, days ago symbolically burnt his old white horsehair wigs, which are a part of the garb worn historically, by lawyers and judges in the criminal courts of Britain and its colonies.
It is not easy being a second-generation star. Just ask 21-year-old N’Hance, who is the son of former Portmore Empire standout Gaza Sheba.
Jamaican singer Shenseea will be joining Sizzla as one of the headline acts for Reggae Sumfest 2022.
Dancehall artist Silk Boss and girlfriend Sabreinna ‘Brii’ Williams are speaking out after the leak of their sex tape and some damning voice notes.
MRC Data, the company that powers the Billboard charts with data on music sales and streaming consumption, has rebranded itself as Luminate.
Dancehall artist Iyara is fresh from a vacation that saw him visiting far-off locales like the snow-laden landscapes of Alaska.
Bounty Killer paused on Tuesday to wish a happy birthday to former Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher “Dudus” Coke—his musical association with whom he said resulted in his visa being revoked in 2010.
Big Belly Man deejay Admiral Bailey, says the Dancehall genre is in deep trouble, as, among other things, the majority of the new persons ascribing onto themselves the title of music producers, do not know the basic tenets of music, including the seven-letter Musical Alphabet: “A, B, C, D, E, F, G”.
Despite asserting that she and London On Da Track have a strictly platonic and professional relationship, Shenseea and the American producer made a grand entrance at her Jamaican album launch last night at the Romeich Entertainment Headquarters in Kingston.
Shenseea‘s debut album ALPHA included rap collaborations with the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, 21 Savage, Offset, and Tyga but, according to the Jamaican singer, she didn’t have to pay for a single one.
Sean Paul‘s 2005 Billboard-topping hit Temperature and Swedish singer Robyn’s remake of Mad Cobra’s 2001 hit, Press Trigger—fittingly titled Cobrastyle—have been featured in episode two of The Dropout, a Hulu series about Elizabeth Holmes, an American former biotechnology entrepreneur, who was convicted of criminal fraud.
Cream of the Crop artist Jahshii has confessed that he’s not a fan of Shabba Ranks, who was the first-ever Dancehall artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
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.