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Press Releases Guinness Sounds of Greatness (GSOG) Opens with “Woman Power” as Champion Sound of the Night
The town of Buckfield, Ocho Rios came alive Friday night as the 2019 Guinness Sounds of Greatness (GSOG) re-ignited the Dancehall clash culture and brought out the fighting side of local and international sounds.
By Contributed
Press Releases The Largest Staging of Reggae Sumfest in the Festival’s 27-Year History
Downsound Entertainment (DSE) has confirmed that the 2019 staging of the iconic festival is geared up to be the biggest one to date. In fact, the team is expecting close to double the massive crowd that was in attendance last year.
By Contributed
Press Releases Reggae Sumfest 2019 New York Launch An Outstanding Success
Cordell “Skatta” Burrell of Downsound Entertainment, organisers of Reggae Sumfest, revealed that dancehall legends Beenie Man and Bounty Killer would be performing together on the Sumfest stage on Festival Night 1, 19 July 2019.
By Contributed
Press Releases Top flight stars for Reggae Sumfest 2019
Reggae Sumfest, scheduled for 14 to 20 July 2019, is already shaping up to eclipse the record 2018 event with the suite of top tier artistes signed for the festival.
By Contributed
Music 44/876: Shaggy and Sting Win Best Reggae Album at the 61st Grammy Awards, 2019
The country-code collaboration — 44 for England, 876 for Jamaica — earns Shaggy his second Grammy and Sting his first in the reggae category at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
By JamaicansMusic Editorial
Press Releases Beres Hammond's "Never Ending" Album Out October 12th on VP Records
Fresh off a successful, sold out U.S. Summer Tour with appearances at Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica and Rototom in Spain, the legendary lovers rock crooner has introduced the world to his new project with two singles.
By VP Records
Press Releases Best World Music Album- Mista Savona Presents: Havana Meets Kingston
Features Grammy award winning musicians Sly & Robbie with original Buena Vista Social Club member, Barbarito Torres and many more.
By VP Records
Legends Of Jamaican Jazz Reunite To Benefit Alpha Institute, Formerly Alpha Boys School, In Kingston, Jamaica
From his role in Jamaica’s first smash hit, Millie Small’s “My Boy Lollipop”, to his eclectic contributions to Jamaican jazzand reggae, 85-year old Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin is the elder statesman of Jamaican music
By Pop Up Music Jamaica
Press Releases Sister Nancy Live In Concert - Aug 24 2018
The upcoming charity event featuring Sister Nancy @ 2A Strathairn Avenue, Kingston 10, Jamaica (parallel to Cecilia Avenue - off Ruthven Road), presented by QORIHC.
By Contributed
Press Releases Digicel Rising Stars finalists to perform at KeesingLIVE!
As the excitement surrounding who the next Digicel Rising Star will reach fever pitch, fans who come to the next KeesingLIVE! staging, on Saturday, 29 September, will receive a special treat, namely, that of seeing and hearing the popular competition’s finalists “up close” on the night before the winner is chosen.
By Contributed
Press Releases KeesingLIVE! returns in September
The long-anticipated return of the popular concert series, KeesingLIVE! is now confirmed for SATURDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2018.
By Contributed
Press Releases Protoje's New Album - A MATTER OF TIME
Described as Protoje's most experimental album yet, A Matter Of Time channels an array of styles and sounds from reggae, dancehall, dub, hip hop and rock into a cohesive 10 track LP. A
By Contributed
Press Releases Celebrating 40 years since the release of Bob Marley's 'Kaya'
Anniversary edition remixed and re-imagined by Stephen Marley.
By Prescription PR
Press Releases Reggae Sumfest Flies with JetBlue
The North-American-based JetBlue Airways is confirmed as one of the premium sponsors of Reggae Sumfest 2018. Joe Bogdanovich, DownSound Entertainment (DSE) CEO, who acquired the Sumfest Brand in 2016 welcomes the addition of JetBlue to the raft of sponsors.
By Downsound Entertainment
Music Who deserves the Grammy Reggae Album of the Year?
Looking back, the year 2017 was a good year for Jamaican music, especially Reggae. The Chronology and Stony Hill albums were the two major albums of the year, the former written and co-produced by young reggae superstar Jamar ‘Chronixx’ McNaughton and the latter written by reggae icon Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley.
By Darynel Beckford
Culture Dance returns to Dancehall
The birth of Dancehall inspired a change from the easy skanking of the Reggae genre, in some sects of society, to a more stylized way of dancing, with complex movements coupled with adorable names.
By Darynel Beckford
Music Why Spice is winning in Dancehall
With killer vocals, crazy dances and talented dancers, Team Spice had an extremely successful 2017. However, Spice has been progressively successful throughout the years, and must be commended for her work ethic.
By Darynel Beckford
Music Is it really a 'Your View' award show?
With the rebranding of the YVAs from the Youth View Awards to the Your View Awards, we expect a top notch award show. Right?
By Darynel Beckford
Music Top 5 2017 Occurrences In Dancehall
The year in Jamaican music has been rather eventful, as usual. From a myriad of success stories to inevitable controversies, this year in Jamaican music was rather eventful to say the least. Here's our top 5 moments that made 2017 a year we'll forever cherish in our memories.
By Darynel Beckford
Music Kojo Rigault - Loved Up
Loved Up is the debut single from Kojo Rigault, the reggae pop singer and songwriter from Trinidad residing in West London.
By Contributed
Interviews Reasoning with Macka B
With an unmatched catalogue of singles and albums, Macka B is certainly one of the quintessential persons responsible for the growth and the explosion of the UK reggae scene. We recently caught up with him to learn more about his most recent offering Health is Wealth.
By Biko Kennedy
Interviews 'Reggae Music is a musical Bible' - Get to know Spiritual!
Get to know Spiritual!
By Biko Kennedy
Interviews The melting pot of VP Records' 'Reggae Gold'
We caught up with Neil “Diamond” Edwards, Senior A&R for VP Records, to find out more about his beginnings, personal hand in the project and his hopes for the future of Reggae Gold.
By Biko Kennedy
Music Selah Marley wows with debut single 'Breathe'
“Essentially, that song for me is me standing up for myself–or more standing up to myself,” she said. “Because it’s clear I’m talking about some guy, some love interest that I’m not dealing with anymore, that I’m over it."
By Biko Kennedy