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SMALL ISLANDS IN THE DMV

This after party has top artists with plenty of vibes, fun, and nonstop energy!! Featuring: Pumpa SKINNY BANTON TALLPREE MANDELA LINKS VIKING DING DONG KO Event Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caribbean-fest-tickets-159775062513      

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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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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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