The Jamaican star on staying humble, helping other artists and wishing he’d started his career earlier By Davina Hamilton YOU WAIT for over an hour to interview Beres Hammond and then get told it’s not going to happen because the reggae star has to leave promptly to catch the Eurostar train. You have two choices:…
By Ian Burrell Watching Chronixx perform for the first time was a physical ordeal. So dense were the crowds inside London’s Scala that scrummaging skills were needed to force a way from the bar area, through fire doors, into the auditorium. And from a teeming balcony, a sight of the stage could only be maintained…
Reggae Sumfest organizers have confirmed that they have booked Empire actor Yazz The Greatest. Yazz, whose real name is Bryshere Gray, rose to fame starring on the hit new series Empire. Last month, Summerfest Productions executive director, Johnny Gourzong, confirmed that they have booked the rapper/actor for his first overseas gig on the biggest reggae…
WITH A fledgling economy, business interests in western Jamaica are looking forward to this year’s staging of Jamaica’s premier national festival, Reggae Sumfest, in hope it will provide a much-needed boost. The event is a major revenue generator for Jamaica and has contributed significantly to the economy since its inception in 1993. Aside from being…
Jamaican dancehall artist was arrested at the Hyatt Hotel in Trinidad under the Absconding Debtors Act. It was reported that the promoters, Peppers Entertainment paid the artist a sum of U$37,000 as performance fee for a concert in May 2013. That concert was later cancelled. However the artist had agree to perform at a later date….
EVEE Hope is on a mission to eradicate poverty and oppression from Jamaica’s inner-city communities. The gospel singer/musician is originally from Westmoreland but grew up in Flower Hill, Montego Bay. She migrated to the United States 30 years ago. Hope is working on her debut album, Songs of Hope. The first single is expected to…
JAMAICAN REGGAE star Chronixx will be heading to the UK for series of shows of shows across the country this month. The tour kicks of July 9 in Manchester and finishes in Glasgow on July 19. A musician since childhood, Jamar Rolando McNaughton, better known as Chronixx, has evolved into one of Jamaica’s top reggae…
Jamaican reggae giants Bunny Wailer and Beres Hammond have confirmed they are to play a series of shows across the United Kingdom in July 2015. Beres will perform at the O2 Academy in Leeds on Saturday, July 11, before being joined by Bunny Wailer for a short run of joint-headline shows at the O2…
Rihanna gets gangster in her new music video “Bitch Better Have My Money.” Early Thursday morning after the release of the video ~ “Bitch Better Have My Money” there were 1,600,000 hits. The video starts out with Rihanna and her two female companions kidnapping a woman to unleash some unusual punishment. It turns out…
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that Rihanna has surpassed more than 100 million gold & platinum song certifications, elevating her to No. 1 on RIAA’s list of artists with the most digital single awards and making her the first artist to surpass RIAA’s 100 million cumulative singles award threshold, according to a…
The rights that a broadcaster or digital music company gets from ASCAP, BMI and SESAC (commonly called the “PROs” or performing rights organizations) deal with the public performance of music. The PROs license the “musical work” or “musical composition” – the lyrics and the notes that make up the song. They do not license particular…
by: Kathleen Parrish “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –Confucius Some of the greatest and most successful songs were written after heart-wrenching moments in life. When you’re actually in one of those scenarios, though – be it coping with a breakup, death, illness, or other serious…
This week, several notices of the intent to audit the records of several webcasters and other digital music services were published in the Federal Register, indicating that SoundExchange was planning on having the royalty payment records of these services reviewed. Notices were sent to services including Live363, iHeartMedia and CBS. Those notices have prompted several calls…
