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LIONEL RICHIE To Headline Saint Lucia Jazz Festival
Saint Lucia Jazz, now into its 21st year, will feature some of the best live performances from renowned local, regional and international superstars, with celebrated performer and multiple Grammy winner Lionel Richie headlining this year’s festival. The 2012 event, April 30 – May13, will feature over fifty artists performing against diverse Saint Lucian locales, from [...]
Reggae Month Launches With A Tribute To Dennis Brown
The Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) welcomed the opportunity to meet with Damion Crawford, minister of state in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment and Lisa Hanna, minister of youth and culture, respectively, to discuss plans for Reggae Month. Both meetings were successful as JaRIA was assured that whilst the financial support may not be [...]
Bunji & Fay Ann Lyons Pull Out Of ‘Soca Monarch’
The founder of the Caribbean Prestige Foundation, producer of the International Soca Monarch competition, said yesterday he wishes four-time Monarch Bunji Garlin and his wife, 2009 double title winner of the Groovy and Power titles, Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez, all the best. William Munro was responding to the couple’s announcement on Friday that they will not [...]
Rihanna Top Selling Digital Artist
Rihanna has sold more digital tracks than any other artist in the United States of America. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Rihanna has sold more than 47 million tracks to the end of 2011 putting her ahead of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Beyonce. Black Eyed Peas are in number two spot but also [...]
$14-million budget for Shaggy’s Star-Filled Concert
THE staging of the fund-raising Shaggy and Friends concert is definitely a multimillion-dollar venture. This year’s event, organised by diamond-selling reggae act Shaggy to raise funds for the Bustamante Hospital for Children, has a production budget in the region of $14 million. Hours before the third staging of his fund-raising concert, artiste turned philanthropist Shaggy [...]
Destra Preparing Surprise Performance For Jamaica
Destra Garcia promises fans attending the 2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival – The Art of Music this month some new flavors from her already impressive menu. “I am no stranger to Jamaica – everybody knows I can rock the house,” said the soca music sensation from her Trinidad home last week. But she promised [...]
Reggae Treated Unfairly
LACK of commitment by the government was a sore point brought out at the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association’s (JARIA) press conference at the Bob Marley Museum in St Andrew yesterday. “If reggae is seen as a bright vibrant music, why is it being treated like this? This is our country,” said Freddie McGregor at the [...]
Lauryn Hill, Ne-Yo For Shaggy Show
INTERNATIONAL recording artistes Lauryn Hill, Ne-Yo and Deniece Williams headline this year’s staging of the charity concert organised by diamond-selling reggae artiste Shaggy. Shaggy and Friends 2011 unfolds on the grounds of Jamaica House on Friday, December 30, with the artiste promising a wonderful experience at the concert which seeks to raise funds for the [...]
TWO NURSES By Ian Frazier
Florence Nightingale strongly disapproved of Mary Jane Seacole, but that did not stop either of them. The former invented the profession of nursing and became famous for her work on the battlefields of the Crimean War. The latter grew up in Jamaica, knew native remedies learned from her Jamaican mother, had light skin because of [...]
Five-Time Grammy Award Winner Celine Dion to Headline Jamaica Jazz & Blues “Art of Music” Festival, January 26-28, 2012
Multi-platinum, 5-time Grammy award-winning singer Celine Dion is set to headline the 16th Annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues “Art of Music” Festival. The event will be held from January 26 – 28, at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium, located just east of the island’s tourist capital, Montego Bay. Dion joins an impressive list of international stars [...]
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