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Jamaican reggae and roots reggae star Max Romeo passed away today in the company of his family. He had been hospitalised over the past few days, but died earlier today (April 11). He was 80 years old. The Chase the Devil singer passed away from heart complications. Romeo achieved chart success in Jamaica and in […]
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Dancehall star Skeng was robbed by men at gunpoint during a dancehall event dubbed All White Party held in Villiers-Le-Bel in Paris, France on March 14th. Villiers-Le-Bel is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris where several blacks and Arabs are trapped in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods where gangs are known to operate with […]
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Reggae legend Colvin ‘Cocoa Tea’ Scott died this morning following a cardiac arrest. He was 65 His wife, Malvia Scott, confirmed to The Gleaner that the veteran singer passed away at 4:46 this morning at a hospital in Broward, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. He was initially diagnosed with lymphoma in 2019, but for the last six […]
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Vybz Kartel is set to make his return to the U.S. stage next month with a show taking place at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Many may have to be ‘band their bellies” to afford the exorbitant cost of the tickets. They took to social media to express their shock and comparing his seat rates to another […]
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Dancehall star Squash may be deported to Jamaica as he is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 33-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Andrae Maurice Whittaker, is being held at the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami as of March 5. This development follows his February 24 arrest […]
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Now, more than ever, ska great Derrick Morgan will have to be “rougher than rough, tougher than tough” as the onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s has been hit with a dire cancer diagnosis. Music sources have confirmed that ska great Derrick Morgan is currently undergoing treatment for […]
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Just a few years ago, reggae singer StaceyAnn watched a woman take her last breath right next to her while hospitalised in Annotto Bay hospital. StaceyAnn had been suffering from breathing problems associated with COVOD-19 which she had caught three times. “There was nothing more the doctors could do. I cried and wondered is this […]
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Emerging reggae artiste Wesrok is pleased with the feedback to his country-influenced single ‘True Love’ featuring American reggae band Big Mountain that has generated quite a buzz in the reggae world. “The song says it all. Love is the answer to a world that is lost and full of hate. Only Jah love can save […]
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Claude Mills is a news journalist who writes articles for the Jamaica Observer, Loop and DancehallMag, publications based in Jamaica. In 1998, Claude Mills,who was at that time a reporter for the Jamaica Gleaner, won his first Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) award for an article he wrote about his experience flying into the eye […]
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Well-known reggae singer Determine, known for the iconic Kette Drum song, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. Paula Francis, one of his closest friends and mother of some of the singer’s children, confirmed his passing in a tearful conversation. “I cannot talk now, but it’s true, he had cancer,” she managed to […]
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