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Third World Ready for Summer with Feel Good Video

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Reggae Ambassadors Third World is gearing up to kick off the summer season in spectacular fashion with the release of their music video “Feel Good” featuring one of Reggae’s most prolific artiste Busy Signal. The visual captured comes from Third World’s 2019 Grammy-nominated album ‘More Work to Be Done’, produced by Damian “Jr Gong” Marley. Directed by Warrior Film Productions, the summer anthem ‘Feel Good’ was released on Ghetto Youth International‘s YouTube page on June 4. “The studio was abuzz when we composed the beat for “Feel Good”. Damian sought…

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Guinness Sound Clash Pulls Huge Numbers

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MORE than 50,000 dancehall fans across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram tuned in last Friday to watch the musical stylings of the island’s best sound systems on the Guinness Sounds of Greatness (GSOG) clash competition. Staged virtually for the first time this year with a media launch on May 11 and two clashes since then, GSOG has so far proven to be a success despite not having a physical audience. “When I heard the clash would be virtual I was very wary but, it turned out great. It was my biggest…

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UB40 surges with Labour of Love

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LABOUR of Love, a 1983 release by British reggae band UB40, debuts this week on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart. It enters at number nine. When it was first released, Labour of Love (the band’s fourth studio effort and first album of covers) went number one in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Netherlands. It made the top five in Canada and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Re-released in 1988 due to the global success of its lead single Red Red Wine, Labour of…

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June 2021: What’s new on Netflix for the Caribbean

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Users in Latin America and the Caribbean have a lot to look forward to on Netflix next month. This June, there’s a lot in reality, comedy and even action coming up on the streaming platform. Here are a few movies and shows, coming to a TV or phone near you: Kim’s Convenience – June 2 Kim’s Convenience is a sitcom that follows a Korean-Canadian family who runs a convenience store. The multi-season drop will allow you to see how they juggle entrepreneurship, family life and culture. Genre: Comedy, Immigrant Life…

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Peter Ram Apologises for Vulgar Lyrics in Trojan Riddim Track

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Following the public backlash and criticism of the Trojan Riddim Dancehall Mix, popular entertainer, Peter ‘Ram’ Wiggins has stepped forward to offer his “sincere and humble apology”. In a video published on his Instagram and Facebook, Ram apologised to his followers, fans and the public for his participation in the track. He is one of the ten artistes involved in the riddim produced by Dwain ‘Dwaingerous’ Antrobus of BassInk. The 16-minute music video for the riddim caught public scorn after retired Voice of Barbados talkshow host and moderator of Down…

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Caymanian singer, Maeve, makes it to British Vogue

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Singer-songwriter and Caymanian superstar, Maeve, says that fashion has provided her with another way to communicate. This revelation was made in an exciting #insidethewardrobe feature released in British Vogue today, that has made the Cayman Islands very proud. “I’ve always wanted to do one of these,” said Maeve of the feature, in which she reveals some of the pieces in her wardrobe that mean something to her. The artist, born Arianna Broderick, says that she is doing things her own way as a 100 per cent self-made do-it-yourself artist. Part…

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Antiguan songstress gets buzz with ‘Facts of Life’

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Music lovers who have been searching for a bolt of inspiration may just have found it with the lyrical stylings of 21-year old Melinda Semple, who is blasting the airwaves into submission with her debut single, “Facts of Life”. The reggae song extols the virtues of marijuana and tells a humorous story of how society often misjudges those who indulge in the smoking of cannabis. The theme of the song surprised her mother. “I was baptized at 11 years old. I live with my mother and she was surprised that…

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Sean Paul gets busy ‘networking’

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COVID-19 may have put a damper on entertainment activities globally, but there seems to be no slowing down for Sean Paul. He, along with Shaggy and Spice, is part of a Jamaican trio billed to appear on ABC’s concert series on Good Morning America ( GMA ) which starts on May 28. But according to Sean Paul, other US network gigs are in the works. “We’re also doing Jimmy Kimmel and Wendy Williams Show and a couple of others,” he told the Jamaica Observer. He, however, never gave the dates…

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Spice wants a collab with Rihanna and Nicki Minaj

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Hot off her most recent collaboration project with Jamaican veteran artistes Shaggy and Sean Paul ‘Go Down Deh’, dancehall artiste Spice wants a track with her voice, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. Her dream is to have Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago on one all-female track. Real name Grace Hamilton, the So Mi Like It singer is back home in Jamaica for the first time in two months. And for her that’s a long time away, but she has been touring for performance shows and recording new episodes of Love…

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Bounty warns fellow artistes

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BOUNTY Killer is no stranger to face-offs with fellow artistes. On Monday he put the spotlight on players in Jamaica’s entertainment industry who are funding criminality and warned that they too will meet their demise. His comments came via social media hours after police and gunmen traded bullets on the busy Trafalgar and Waterloo roads in Kingston on Monday. “Is this the Jamaica we all wanted?…But if this was the life I wanted, I wouldn’t bother to leave Riverton or Seaview Gardens…I stand with country,” said Bounty Killer in an…

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