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Buju Banton, and Toots lead out Jamaica Festival Song contestants in 2020

Claude Mills Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

Music industry sources said that this year’s crop of Jamaica Festival Song contest entries include songs from music heavyweights such as Buju Banton, Toots Hibbert and Freddie McGregor. Loop News couldn’t get any confirmation from official ministry sources regarding this rumour but industry insiders confirmed that “The finalists will be announced on Wednesday, it’s going […]

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Chelsea Stewart generates big buzz in reggae world with ‘Forever Your Girl’

Robert Murphy Posted on June 7, 2020June 14, 2020

Toronto-born reggae singer Chelsea Stewart is not afraid to go old-school. The singer’s promotional street team has employed innovative guerrilla marketing tactics to sell CDs directly to people of Caribbean and black descent in her hometown, strong-arming the marketplace and creating a built-in audience for the young crooner. BOOKING NUMBER: 1(416)-525-8785 KAREN STEWART In the […]

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Fun in the Son to stream live on July 11th amid COVID-19 pandemic concerns

Claude Mills Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020

Organizers of Jamaica Fun In The Son, Tommy Cowan and Carlene Davis are looking to host a virtual staging this year on July 11th, amidst setbacks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cowan hopes to achieve this goal by streaming the annual Gospel music festival on various radio and television stations and social media platforms […]

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Teejay mourns friend gunned down in Marl Road

Claude Mills Posted on June 5, 2020June 6, 2020

There was a quadruple shooting on Rosalee Avenue in the Marl Road community yesterday. Four men were shot – two of whom succumbed to injuries – as shooting accounts escalate islandwide. The deceased have been identified as 27-year-old Romario Wallen, otherwise called ‘Bassa’ of Rosalee Avenue and Phillip Lewis, otherwise called ‘Afro Man’. “We can […]

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First Lady of Lover’s Rock Sharon Forrester is ‘Simply Falling’

Claude Mills Posted on June 4, 2020

Don’t call it a comeback. The heart of reggae-soul singer Sharon Forrester never departed from reggae and lover’s rock music. In fact, Forrester’s latest release, ‘Simply Falling’, a cover of American singer Iyeoka, shows off the full range of her vocal prowess on this catchy tune. She said that Iyeoka’s original song spoke to her […]

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RT BOSS BURNS OUT LUDACRIS ABOUT ‘MURDER CAPITAL’ REMARK

Claude Mills Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020

Dancehall artiste RT Boss has taken issue with the controversial comments made by rapper Ludacris that dubbed Jamaica ‘the murder capital of the world’. “Even though I feel that he is joking, Ludacris needs to check himself. Jamaica is not the murder capital of the world, we have our problems just like any Third World […]

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Galaxy Amunra P hits out at system with ‘Soul Fe the Money’

Admin Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020

Dancehall artiste Galaxy ‘Amunra’ P is back with his lyrical guns blazing on the conscious single, ‘Soul Fe the Money’. “This song is a commentary on the state of your society, the moral standards has fallen to a low level where we are moving like robots, worshipping objects on the altar of commercialism, this is […]

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DIVINE RITES – POPULAR MUSIC PULLING THE YOUNG

Claude Mills Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020

Claude Mills LOUD MUSIC. Dance. Dramatic interpretations. All of this battened onto a religious superstructure means Sunday service has never been this loud, this dramatic — this hip. While anguished shouts of praise the Lord, tambourine, organ and piano music have always filled Jamaican Sunday mornings, church leaders today are enticing the young with more […]

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Mother Goose is a violent old bat

Claude Mills Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020

Who knew that Mother Goose was such a violent old bat? As my daughter gets older, I have been dusting off my childhood favourites to read to her, so you can imagine my consternation when I discovered through the unfiltered light of adulthood that Old Mother Goose nursery rhymes are actually ghastly tales of random […]

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PETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH

Robert Murphy Posted on June 2, 2020

PETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH Blackmail, extortion of ‘closetted men’ in the cards Sean Wordsworth Freelance Writer Attorney-at-law Berry Bryan, who represented the accused Sheldon Pusey in the murder case of former trade ambassador Peter King, was killed on Monday of this week at his Stony Hill residence in upper St. Andrew. The […]