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 […]

AMAICAN-BORN entrepreneur and musician Levi Roots is the headliner of Music & Food For Friends scheduled for Redbones Blues Cafe in New Kingston on Friday. Enola Williams, manager of the popular eatery and live entertainment venue, said the occasion is a unique opportunity for patrons to see both sides of the British-based entertainer. “It’s a […]

Aidonia is riding the charts with Big Baller, a song produced by 4th Genna Music. It is his third major hit of 2018, his previous hits being VVS and Breeze (featuring Govana). “ Big Baller is definitely about a vibe. You can feel the energy just listening to the song…if you know you know. It’s all about […]

prison. An officer at the McRae Correctional institution, where Buju spent the last eight years, said the entertainer was let out on Friday. The United States embassy in Kingston is tight-lipped about when reggae superstar Buju Banton will be returned to the country. Buju, 45,was arrested in December 2009, months after he was met by […]

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 […]

Singer Christopher Martin will be part of Apple’s new in-store Today At Apple series in New York tomorrow. He will perform an acoustic set at the new Williamsburg location in Brooklyn. Also tomorrow, British singer Estelle does a live set at Soho in Manhattan. She will debut her song, Love Like Ours (featuring Tarrus Riley) […]

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange has said that Buju Banton’s Long Walk to Freedom concert, held on Saturday, has proven that reggae music is still one of Jamaica’s main attractions. Speaking with The Gleaner minutes before the Gargamel’s first performance on the island in over eight years, Minister Grange expressed joy at […]