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The family of Jamaican Reggae icon the Honourable Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, OD, OJ is happy that he, won the 2021 Grammy Award for the Best Reggae Album with Got To Be Tough on Sunday.
The late Reggae legend Toots Hibbert and his band, Toots and the Maytals have emerged as the winners of the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Toots and the Maytals’ copping of the 2021 Best Reggae Grammy award, for Got To Be Tough is really one of two Recording Academy album wins that Jamaicans can, and should celebrate.
Nigerian Afrobeat superstar Burna Boy is going home with the 2021 Grammy for Best Global Music Album.
Legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals have won the 2021 Grammy for Best Reggae Album at the 63rd annual Awards.
The Weeknd, apparently, isn’t the only artist to call out the Grammys this year. Dancehall superstar Sean Paul says he doesn’t believe that Reggae gets the respect it deserves at the annual award show run by the Recording Academy.
Just over a year after a Turkish hacker, took control of Bounty Killer’s verified Instagram account, deleted his videos and photos and began using the page to sell shoes, his Reggae compatriot Bushman, has suffered the same fate, at the hands of another Turkish cyber-punk.
Ten years after Rastafarian attorney-at-law Miguel Lorne outrightly blamed former Island Records’ boss, Chris Blackwell at a university symposium, for ‘mashing up’ The Wailers group by devaluing Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh’s equal role in ascension of the trio, the actions of the now 83 year old, is once again under the microscope.
The Marley Estate is adding the late icon’s mood-lifting ethos to psychedelics brand, Silo Wellness. Silo Wellness operates psychedelic clinics and develops legal functional mushroom consumer products from its Oregon headquarters.
Though Dancehall music continues to be snubbed by the music industry’s chief recording academies, anticipation nonetheless will finally come to a head tomorrow for the 2021 Grammy Awards.
Dancehall artist Sean Paul has already admitted that it was not an easy task to bring his vision of unity to life with the release of Live N Livin.
There has been a public brouhaha between entertainment executive Maxine Stowe and the children of Neville ‘Bunny Wailer’ Livingston regarding authorized public pronouncements about his funeral, equity in his various entrepreneurial ventures, and even possession of the legend’s sceptre.
Veteran Dancehall songstress Tanya Stephens has paid a glowing tribute to the matriarch of the Marley family, Rita Marley.
Dancehall star Mavado is mourning the death of his mother, Elizabeth ‘Ms. Pinny’ Gordon. On Saturday, the Father God singer, 40, shared a heartfelt tribute to his mother on Instagram, where he recounted Gordon’s last moments and cherished early memories.
American music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has a straight-up and vitalizing Friday message for everyone who’s been dealing with a tough week.
Jamaica began rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program on Wednesday (March 10) and there has been an indisputable increase in the number of people who say they are ready to get the jab.
Dancehall star Mavado is mourning the death of his mother, while, while the sentencing of his son Dantay Brooks has been postponed after he was convicted for murder.
While Gwen Stefani’s Slow Clap track which she released on Thursday, is being praised by her die-hearted fans, as, among other things a ‘masterpiece’, ‘amazing’ and other superlatives, there are some who are dismissing the song as ‘trash’.
Palace Amusement Company has closed all its cinemas with immediate effect due to Government protocols aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19.
There is a mushrooming kerfuffle over Bunny Wailer’s sceptre and medallions as his children have demanded that these religious and personal artefacts be returned immediately to the family.