As International Women’s Day wound down on Tuesday, singjay D’Angel attended Dancehall Queen Carlene’s ‘Dancehall Tuesday’ event at the MECA, Market Place, in St Andrew. The women were captured belting out the lyrics to Baby Father, the collaboration D’Angel did with Vybz Kartel. At another time, haters would have said the moment was ‘photoshopped’. But […]
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Optimistic is how Richard Delano Forbes Jr, the man at the helm of Phase Three, is feeling about the creative industry as it emerges out of the doldrums brought on by the pandemic, and he is ready to play his part in its rebuilding. Forbes’ gaze is far-reaching, and he is also excited about the […]
With almost $45 million riding on his latest investment, chief executive officer of the label formerly called UIM Records, Andrew Myrie, is optimistic about the prospects. “I dedicated approximately 12 years of my music production career to UIM. I am looking at it like a previous catalogue and looking at the studio I have recently […]
Today Shenseea, drops her highly anticipated debut album ALPHA, so titled because she is an “alpha female … dominant … it’s [her] first…everything about being a leader it’s just [her]”. For her manager, Romeich Major, who “discovered” her six years ago, today is surreal. “This moment is very sentimental to me, just as it is […]
CHICAGO (AP): A judge sentenced Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the black and gay actor a narcissistic charlatan for staging a hate crime against himself to grab the limelight while the nation struggled with wrenching issues of racial injustice. Smollett responded by defiantly maintaining his innocence and suggesting he could be killed […]
Alpha is out and the reviews are in. Not surprisingly, the Shenyeng Princess has found favour with her subjects, with many of them gushing over her versatility and applauding Alpha’s # 1 debut on the iTunes Top 100 Reggae Albums chart. As for the naysayers, Hot New Hip Hop noted, “Shenseea’s Alpha album has Twitter […]
CHICAGO ( AP ): Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that the former Empire actor orchestrated himself. Cook County Judge James Linn sentenced Smollett to 30 months of felony probation, including 150 days in the county jail. Linn denied a request […]
ATLANTA (AP): Atlanta police briefly handcuffed movie director Ryan Coogler after a bank employee mistook him for a robber when he passed her a note while trying to withdraw a large amount of cash from his account. The Black Panther director, who is black, walked into a Bank of America branch on January 7 and […]
Marcy Chin looks at her career in stages. At one point, her focus was to observe so she could learn and apply, and at another point, it was to become good at her craft. “A lot of that took years too; what was I gonna do that was different?” Chin told The Gleaner. Thanks to […]
The Desperate Hour is a tense affair from start to finish. As the movie opens, Naomi Watts’ Amy coveys a distinct uneasiness. The weight of the world rests uncomfortably on her shoulders, giving her whole household a heavy feeling. It’s almost one year since the death of her husband, and her family is yet to […]