She was once, the “Queen of the Dancehall”, and not just nationally, but internationally, her music, climbing the Charts everywhere. Making the diminutive figure, larger than life, when she hit the stage and belted out her chart-topping songs, and her electrifying stage performances, setting her apart from the pack. The pack following a distant furlong …
All too often, what passes off as a critique of our “cultural heritage’ and offerings, is nothing more than institutionalized affectations, especially, when it comes to our theatre and our music. And it seems, with each graduating generation, that self-indulgent abasement just gets worse, rather than more enlightened. Today, there’s lots of supposed educated chatter …
Much Has Been Said and is being said about Reggae/Dancehall, Its Future, and its purveyors. It’s not as if the commentators, purveyors, producers, and promoters are ignorant of the problem dogging the music. They all do, The problem is, even though, the Pioneers of Reggae and Dancehall, have left the templates for the future of …
And just when one thought Kingston was becoming even more , bored with international and national political shenanigans, the Spanish Embassy here in Kingston, and the Spanish-Jamaican Foundation, decided on throwing what proved a spectacular musical soiree starring international award-winning Spanish musical songbird Carmen Paris, in a concert under the theme “En Sintesis”, at the Little …
Too often, what passes off as a critique of our cultural heritage, is nothing more than institutionalised affectations, especially, when it comes to our theatre and our music. And it seems, with each graduating generation, that self-indulgent abasement just gets worse, rather than more enlightened. Today, there’s lots of supposed educated chatter from many …
