NEW YORK (AP): It arrived in 2024. And it never left. Rosé and Bruno Mars’ massively popular, Grammy-nominated APT. topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2025 as the giant music streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners...
One of the defining cinema experiences of 2024 was watching Cynthia Erivo shatter the ceiling of theatres across the world, hitting high notes hitherto unknown with her climactic number ‘Defying Gravity’. Wicked: For Good has the unfortunate...
NEW YORK (AP): The holiday season has arrived, and so has Spotify Wrapped. Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has been named the platform’s most-played artiste for the fourth time, edging out Taylor Swift. On Wednesday, Spotify released its annual...
Netflix have defended their documentary about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after the rapper branded it “a shameful hit piece”. The streaming service released Sean Combs: The Reckoning on Tuesday and the four-part series includes “explosive” footage of the 56...
More than £20,000 has been raised by Jamaicans and other supporters in the UK for children’s homes, early childhood institutions, homes for the elderly, persons with disabilities, community groups, and first responders in areas most affected by...
What began as a celebration of music, culture and creativity has evolved into a powerful act of solidarity. Deh Yah, the showcase of young Jamaican talent, returns on Friday, transformed by purpose as its collective of organisers and artistes unite...
Vocalist Apryl Jaye Raymond returns on Thursday with the second staging of her signature production, Island Car Rentals Presents Jazz Must Be, an intimate two-hour jazz fusion showcase at The Summit in St Andrew. This year’s staging is proudly...
MOBO Organisation CEO and founder, Kanya King, launched the House of MOBO in south London last week, ahead of its award ceremony on March 26, 2026, at Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena. Done in partnership with national pub and drinks retailer, Greene...
Rihanna is loving seeing her children grow up. The Diamonds hitmaker and her partner A$AP Rocky welcomed daughter Rocki into the world in September, having already had sons RZA, three, and Riot, two, together, and the 37-year-old singer is loving...
LOS ANGELES (AP): The Super Bowl pregame show will open with a trio of standout performers in Northern California: Charlie Puth will hit the stage to sing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile will take on America the Beautiful, and Coco Jones will...
On her new single, which was released last Friday via VP Records, singer Shuga revisits Bobby Bloom’s 1970 classic, Montego Bay. Produced by Donovan Germain, the track reimagines the song in a reggae style and features a saxophone performance by...
A$AP Rocky has been appointed brand ambassador for Chanel. The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, will be representing the French fashion house because of his “talent, curiosity and limitless creativity” and the upmarket fashion...
Seventh-day Adventists are acknowledged as having the gift of singing, and, on the annual calendar of events for many churches is Music Day – that Sabbath when even the birds seem to pause and listen keenly as human songbirds lift magnificent and...
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 Road in St Andrew. The play stars Ehrhardt...
I met Jimmy Cliff in 1964 when he first stepped foot onto English soil. I had some Jamaican friends Carl and ‘Pepsi’ who had been given the job of meeting him at the airport, and they asked me to accompany them. I remember Jimmy being very...
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 Rust — a white, digitally generated avatar that...
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 that this posthumous dominance is “a testament to...
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 Christmas sound, Pantry offers a heartfelt performance...
For nearly two decades, event producer Dwayne Dacres has been creating experiences that bring people together. From the early days of his New Year’s Eve show, Absinthe, in 2006, to crowd-pulling series such as Daybreak and Allure, he has carved out...
Films That Move is hosting a winter edition festival dubbed ‘The Calm After the Storm’ to provide emotional, mental, and physical support to those affected by Hurricane Melissa. Dwayne ‘Stewy’ Stewart, director and co-founder of Films That Move,...
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 when The Gleaner asked if the usual Christmas...
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 Lazer. The charismatic Foster, who “brings fresh...
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 was charged with fraud then released on bail in...
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 East Lawn of King’s House on Emancipation Day,...
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 also dented the all-genre USA iTunes Album...
