The Top 10 Shabba Ranks Songs
Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a popular Jamaican dancehall music artist. Ranks started his career in 1985 and has worked in the reggae, reggae fusion, dancehall, and ragga genres. Throughout his career, he was among the most famous dancehall musicians of his generation and is also among […]
Skip Marley Featured in W Condé Nast Magazine
Bob Marley’s grandson Skip Marley, 21, is the subject of a feature article in W Conde Nast magazine in which he displays the cool Jamaican no-stress approach to life he inherited from his grandfather to interviewer Emilia Petrarca. He begins by saying that he got “a little bit stressed” when he was on stage at […]
Photo Highlights: An Evening with Air Supply featuring Tessanne Chin
Returning to Jamaica to perform once again, the group Air Supply did not disappoint their loyal fans who gathered on June 24th, 2017 at the Couples Sans Souci in Ocho Rios. Performing before them was upcoming sensation Djani and The Voice 2013 winner Tessanne Chin. The concert which was staged by the Issa Trust Foundation […]
Reggae Sound System Comes to Cleveland This Summer
Steel Yard Sound System, a new monthly event in Cleveland, Ohio, launched in June 2017, and is designed to provide a view into the sound system culture that originally came from Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s. Jamaican sound systems are the forerunners of modern DJ and hip-hop culture and stem from the efforts of […]
Spice to female dancehall artists: “Get Out Of Bed And WORK!”
Best Of The Best, the spectacle that invades downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park annually. It was a hot summer day with clear skies upon which the 2017 showing took place and the only things hotter than the day were the performances! Big artists like Konshens, Dexta Daps, Aidonia, Christopher Martin and Mad Cobra among others thrilled […]
Protoje Live at the Highline Ballroom NYC
Protoje– Who Knew – Sending Love to his friends and foes! by Cathy Kleinhans Meeting Protoje – Oje Ken Ollivierre – for my first interview I could see in his demeanor and eyes a truly humble man who is not full of himself. Almost shy in answering questions which belie his presence on stage, Protoje […]
The Top 10 Etana Songs
Shauna McKenzie, better known by her stage name Etana is a Jamaican reggae singer who started her career in 2008. Over the course of her career, Etana has worked as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. She has worked with various labels including Freemind Music LLC and VP. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised […]
Richie Stephens to Be Honored at 30th ASCAP R&B Music Awards
Singer Richie Stephens, who received an award at the 34th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards ceremony in Hollywood, California, will be returning to California to receive additional honors at the 30th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards event on June 22, 2017, in Beverly Hills. He will receive the R&B award for the contribution […]
The Tennors: Jamaica Rock Steady Music Pioneers
The Tennor Twins was formed in Kingston, Jamaica in the mid-1960s by singer George “Clive” Murphy, aka Clive Tennors and Maurice ‘Professor’ Johnson. They auditioned a song called “Pressure and Slide”, in the back of a taxicab for Studio One Record A&R arranger Jackie Mittoo of. In 1967 Pressure and Slide, was their first hit […]
The Top 10 Maxi Priest Songs
Max Alfred Elliott, also known as Maxi Priest, is an English Reggae artist bearing Jamaican ancestry. Throughout his career, Priest has worked as a singer and songwriter in Reggae, Reggae fusion, and Lovers rock genres. He is one of the most prominent and successful Reggae fusion artists of all-time and has garnered a lot of […]