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A healthy-again The Mighty Sparrow, the world’s most decorated calypso singer, will be the guest of honour at the glitzy opening night gala of this year’s Caribbean Tales International Film Festival (CTFF), which returns to its Toronto home base from September 3 through 13.

Reggae superstar Beres Hammond should be returning home soon after a successful month-long concert series that saw him criss-crossing the North Amercan continent. He kicked off the tour on August 2 at Gaylord’s Resort in Orlando, Florida before closing on the 30th at Jannus Live in St. Petersberg, Florida.

Beenie Man who arguably delivers the best song on the riddim with ‘Million Gal’. Beenie returns to his ‘gallis roots’ as he name drops Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and Katey, and outlines his gallis credentials with brilliant lines like “gal say mi sweet like pastry/it is mathematically crazy cause mi have more…much more than a million gal”.

Red hot dancehall act Ishawna has the breakout hit on the riddim with the emotionally-charged ‘Restraining Order’ which seems to have taken a life of its own because of its delicious subtext and real-life references to the end of her high-profile relationship with popular selector Foota Hype. The streets are buzzing with rumours about the fallout of the stormy relationship between Ishawna and Foota Hype, and it appears to have fuelled this song’s popularity on mix tape and radio.

Although he is incarcerated, Vybz Kartel’s large volume of work continues to carry on as his ‘Miami Vice Episode’ , released three months ago, has over 400,000 views on youtube. The beat is not even dancehall but he knocks the fuck out of the song anyways. Kudos to Addi!!!

There is a simmering feud between producer Justus Arison of JA Productions and selector Foota Hype that is threatening to boil over in the streets. The bad blood between the two allegedly started over three weeks ago when Foota Hype shut off the sound playing the Mavado title track single on Arison’s High Life riddim.

Ultra-talented reggae artiste Prince Levy is generating a huge buzz on FM radio with his latest hit, ‘London Bridge’. The well-produced single has been getting favourable spins on several radio stations here and stateside. The singer released a video to promote the song recently, and that video is now in steady rotation on CVM, RE, and HYPE TV over the last few weeks.

Dancehall protagonist Demarco is all set to invade the North Atlantic Coast this weekend as headliner for a concert in the South American land of French Guiana. The event dubbed ‘Le Mega Mouv’ will unfold on August 30th at the Blue Rock in Saint Laurent with the Jamaican performing alongside local acts Nikko, Rickman and Faya Wowia. The ‘Good Book’ singer says he is looking forward to delivering another invigorating set to the French speaking nation to which he’s no stranger.

Dancehall star Masicka has shown that he is able to do social commentary with his Mario Deane tribute, ‘Life Keeps on Crying’.

“I was motivated to do the song because I felt it was very tragic and unjust for a man to lose his life over a spliff when governments all over the world, and even Jamaican government, are moving to legalize the tree of life, marijuana,” he said.

Blak Ryno has signed a recording and management deal with JA Productions. Now he has a radio hit single with Side Chick where he borrows a Sean Kingston melody for his hook.