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Blanco Brown performs during CMA Fest, Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee..
30 Nov, 2025 0

AI country hit built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions

LOS ANGELES (AP): When an AI-generated country song called Walk My Walk hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artiste named Breaking…
Actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt.
30 Nov, 2025 0

New date for Debra Ehrhardt’s ‘Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree’

Two performances of Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree, actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt’s newest play, have been rescheduled for January 17 and 18, 2026 at the University of Technology on Old Hope…
Jamaican vocalist Jodian Pantry.
28 Nov, 2025 0

Jodian Pantry drops holiday single ‘My Christmas’

Jamaican singer Jodian Pantry releases her new holiday single, My Christmas, a soulful love song produced by Paul ‘Patchy’ Wright for IslandYard Productions. With warm vocals and a contemporary…
Jimmy Cliff, the legendary reggae icon whose voice shaped generations.
28 Nov, 2025 0

Jimmy Cliff: The voice that still moves the world

Following his passing last Monday, Jimmy Cliff’s albums and singles took over both the iTunes Top 100 Reggae Albums and Top 100 Singles Charts. Music executive Maxine Stowe told The Sunday Gleaner…
Major Lazer musical group (from left) Ape Drums, Walshy Fire, America Foster and Diplo.
27 Nov, 2025 0

5 Questions With America Foster

This week, 5 Questions With… caught up with America Foster, the British-Jamaican artiste, content creator, and performer, who joins Diplo, Walshy Fire, and Ape Drums as the fourth member of Major…
Pairing up for a photo at the I Love Jamaica telethon and virtual concert are Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange and Lenford Salmon, executive director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.
27 Nov, 2025 0

Hurricane Melissa won’t rain on Jamaica’s Christmas parade — Minister Grange

Reggae music is “a music for all seasons”, and Hurricane Melissa “is not going to rain on our parade”. That’s the word from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange…
Legendary singer Jimmy Cliff, whose catalogue has dominated global charts following his passing, remains a towering figure in reggae history.
26 Nov, 2025 0

Jimmy Cliff dominates iTunes reggae charts after his passing

Since his death on Monday, the iTunes Top 100 Reggae Albums charts and Top 100 Reggae Singles charts have become the personal playground of legendary singer and cultural icon, Jimmy Cliff, and he has…
From left: Eric Hosin, chairman of the Come Alive Collective, and Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, present the symbolic cheque to Anthony Wood, chief executive officer of the Bustamante Hospital for Children,
26 Nov, 2025 0

More Than This Concert donates $28 million

Organisers of the More Than This Concert formally handed over $28 million in net proceeds to six charities on Wednesday. The announcement comes four months after more than 15,000 patrons filled the…
Thai business tycoon Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip.
26 Nov, 2025 0

Bangkok court issues arrest warrant for Thai co-owner of Miss Universe pageant

BANGKOK (AP): A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization in connection with a fraud case. Jakkaphong ‘Anne’ Jakrajutatip…