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Fun in the Son to stream live on July 11th amid COVID-19 pandemic concerns

Organizers of Jamaica Fun In The Son, Tommy Cowan and Carlene Davis are looking to host a virtual staging this year on July 11th, amidst setbacks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cowan hopes to achieve this goal by streaming the annual Gospel music festival on various radio and television stations and social media platforms […]

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Teejay mourns friend gunned down in Marl Road

There was a quadruple shooting on Rosalee Avenue in the Marl Road community yesterday. Four men were shot – two of whom succumbed to injuries – as shooting accounts escalate islandwide. The deceased have been identified as 27-year-old Romario Wallen, otherwise called ‘Bassa’ of Rosalee Avenue and Phillip Lewis, otherwise called ‘Afro Man’. “We can […]

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First Lady of Lover’s Rock Sharon Forrester is ‘Simply Falling’

Don’t call it a comeback. The heart of reggae-soul singer Sharon Forrester never departed from reggae and lover’s rock music. In fact, Forrester’s latest release, ‘Simply Falling’, a cover of American singer Iyeoka, shows off the full range of her vocal prowess on this catchy tune. She said that Iyeoka’s original song spoke to her […]

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RT BOSS BURNS OUT LUDACRIS ABOUT ‘MURDER CAPITAL’ REMARK

Dancehall artiste RT Boss has taken issue with the controversial comments made by rapper Ludacris that dubbed Jamaica ‘the murder capital of the world’. “Even though I feel that he is joking, Ludacris needs to check himself. Jamaica is not the murder capital of the world, we have our problems just like any Third World […]

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DIVINE RITES – POPULAR MUSIC PULLING THE YOUNG

Claude Mills LOUD MUSIC. Dance. Dramatic interpretations. All of this battened onto a religious superstructure means Sunday service has never been this loud, this dramatic — this hip. While anguished shouts of praise the Lord, tambourine, organ and piano music have always filled Jamaican Sunday mornings, church leaders today are enticing the young with more […]

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