The promoters of the popular Dream Weekend event has announced that this year’s staging will be postponed, and instead will now take place August 5 to 9, 2021.  In a statement on their Instagram page, the promoters announced that after numerous meetings and continuous dialogue with the various Ministries of Government that govern entertainment in Jamaica, they […]

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 […]

For those who missed Buju Banton’s performance at the National Stadium last Saturday, the chance to see the Gargamel in his element will roll around again this summer at Reggae Sumfest 2019. The Sumfest team made the revelation on Sunday morning after the Long Walk to Freedom concert wrapped up inside the National Stadium. ‘Sumfest […]

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 […]

Spice’s lawyer set for legal showdown Ayisha Robb, attorney-at-law representing Spice, says her legal team is ready to defend the Grammy-nominated dancehall act in court against any allegations by the Chug It team. “If they’re suing, they just have to do what they have to do. We can’t do anything about that. We’ll just defend […]

DURING the 1970s a wind of social change swept Jamaica and film-maker Lennie Little-White wanted to capture that transformation for a global audience with his movie Children of Babylon. “In the 70s Jamaica went through a social revolution when uptown ‘brownings’ were attracted to the downtown dreadlocks inner-city yuteman. This reached its pinnacle when Miss […]

He has been dead for nearly four decades, but the music of reggae icon Bob Marley shows no sign of dying. The musical legacy of the man born Robert Nesta Marley of modest means in Nine Miles, St Ann continues to be a force on global music charts. Marley, who died in 1981, continues to […]