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Dinthill Technical High School, which returned as the judges' choice for season 18 of Television Jamaica's All Together Sing, has emerged the winner of the competition. The announcement was made on Sunday evening inside the studios of...
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Don’t call it a comeback. Keisha Patterson was always here. Just selective with her performance appearances, and with good reason. It has been an emotionally taxing seven-year stretch for Patterson, a multihyphenate creative who has been a well-...
Wherever theatre people converge, the atmosphere is usually quite festive, and that was definitely the case at the launch of Sounds From Yaad, a celebration of Jamaican and Caribbean culture and live theatre, powered by the creative force that is...
A woman who accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean 'Diddy' Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show after-party has acknowledged certain inconsistencies in her story, while her lawyer said he will continue to vet her...
Three stalwart Jamaican gospel pioneers– Dr Lester Lewis, Shirley Willis, and Minister Sandra Brooks– are expected to receive lifetime achievement awards at the inaugural Reset The Nation concert set for January 4 at Manchester High School....
WESTERN BUREAU: When the Young Jamaica Ensemble of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) stages its annual ‘Sounds of the Season’ concert on Sunday, December 15, in the Black River Theatre at the Iberostar Suites, Rose Hall, one of the SSTC’s...
LOS ANGELES (AP): GloRilla has gone from choir girl to husky-voiced rap queen, climbing the hip-hop ranks so high that she’s earned a trip to the White House. The Memphis-born performer has become one of industry’s most promising voices with her...
Jean-Andre Lowell Lawrence, better known as J.L.L, is part of a new class of producers from Jamaica. Born and raised in Kingston, J.L.L attended Ardenne High School, where he was first introduced to music. Since then, he has been toiling away in...
Members of the entertainment fraternity are absorbing the shock of the passing of Robert Russell, the co-founder of Reggae Sumfest and organiser/co-producer of the now defunct Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. Russell, who was 76, died at the...
LOS ANGELES (AP): When it comes to music, there’s one person in particular Snoop Dogg trusts enough to steer the ship without question: hit-making producer Dr Dre. Their bond, built over 30 years of brotherhood, began when Dr Dre shaped Snoop’s...
Genesis, the flagship event for the Jamaica Youth for Christ (JYFC), had its media launch at the Hyundai Jamaica Showroom in New Kingston on Tuesday, and the organisers are promising another fun-filled, uplifting and God-centred staging of the...
UNIVERSAL CITY, CalifORNIA (AP): Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey – bridging Motown’s old and new school – are lending their voices during a holiday special to honour the groundbreaking record label that changed music forever. Robinson and Bailey...
The inaugural Jamaica Book Festival culminated in a vibrant celebration of creativity and literacy with the highly anticipated launch of Here Comes the Morning, a children’s book co-authored by Grammy-nominated reggae artist Protoje and The...
For more than 30 years, the theatre and acting have been the truest passions of comedian Stede Flash, more commonly known as ‘Jooky Jam’. However, with the changing entertainment industry, Flash has had to find creative ways to keep doing what he...
OPENING TODAY KRAVEN THE HUNTER is the action-packed, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai...
NEW YORK (AP): Jay-Z says a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. A woman who previously sued Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she was 13, amended the lawsuit Sunday...
