Dance Jamaica Academy’s Latonya Style says a lack of opportunites for up-and-coming talent has inspired a new venture called Premiere Wednesdays. The dancer has joined forces with professionals in the entertainment industry, including recording artiste R-Tadax, who has taken on the role as the executive producer for the event under his brand Talent Promotion and […]

REGGAE singer OMI is currently working on his sophomore album in London, England.Splash caught up with him during a recording session earlier this week. “I’m really loving not only the direction of this album but also the vibe because I get to be more instrumental in the creation of this one. I also get to […]

TOP-SELLING reggae band SOJA is the winner of the Best Reggae Album in the 64th Grammy Awards held on Sunday. The Virginia-based outfit won for its Billboard-charting 15-track album Beauty in the Silence. The award was handed out during the pre-Grammy telecast at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.   During his […]

An article in the Hollywood Reporter, disclosed that a high-profile production team will oversee the project, led by Melina Matsoukas as director and executive producer. The 47-year-old James is also involved as executive producer. Other executive producers are Malcolm Spellman, whose credits include the hit television series Empire, and Jill Soloway, the creator and driving force behind Transparent, another Amazon […]

Veteran sound system operator Jack Scorpio wants to revamp his esteemed Black Scorpio brand with millennials. For the new year, he is extending invitations to young selectors, audio engineers and artistes to join his sound system and record label. “I am personally investing back in my sound system, which is being remodelled, and my studio, […]

MICHAEL Prophet, one of the many roots singers who emerged from the Jamaican dancehall during the 1980s, died in London last Saturday at age 60. Best known in Jamaica for the 1980 hit song Gunman, Prophet (real name Michael George Haynes) succumbed to cancer. Typical of artistes who worked the dancehall circuit, Prophet recorded for a […]

shot dead LAURA DOWRICH-PHILLIPS CREATED : 6 JULY 2020CARIBBEAN NEWS Pictured: Kyle ‘Rebel Sixx’ George A popular Trinidadian dancehall entertainer and member of the Jamaica-based ‘6ix’ dancehall crew, Kyle ‘Rebel Sixx’ George was gunned down at his home in the eastern Caribbean country on Sunday night. According to reports, around 11.45 pm, a woman was at the back […]