Absent from the music scene for over one year, Marcia J Ball returned on September 1 with ‘This Man of Mine’, a song produced by Trevor Elliott for Musical Ambassador Production.

 Written by Dwight Oliver, it is about a woman…

One of the leading lights of the 1990s dancehall movement, General Degree is still rocking dances with fresh material including ‘Touch Me’, a song produced by Delroy “Phatta” Pottinger.

Recently released, General Degree says it was recorded three years ago.

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For most of the past 20 years, Jah Silent helped care for his mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. When she died four months ago, he and producer Damion Nelson (aka TheRealTraxx) released a song the singer drafted several years…

‘Voltz Of Holt Vol. 2’, an album of songs by brothers Junior Holt and Brian Holt, and Junior’s son Bamm, is tentatively scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2024.

 Junior Holt made the disclosure recently, saying the songs…

Between the darkness of Covid-19 lockdowns and personal challenges, the past three years have been largely retrospective for gospel singer Chris Da Ambassada. He credits his Christian faith for seeing him through and helping to write some of his most…

The ‘Millenium Movie Star’ is the title of a compilation album produced by veteran deejay Sister Carol, tentatively scheduled for release in late September.

‘Be Alone’, its lead song, is scheduled for release on September 8. Produced by Black Cinderella…

A veteran of the Spanish Town sound system circuit, Hitman Walle has been recording music since the 1980s. A bona fide dancehall artist, he sees nothing wrong with experimenting with different sounds.

 Which is what he does on ‘Pump Up’,…

Once he launched his recording career in 2000, Nyjah went the route of many Jamaican artists and recorded songs for a number of producers, some of whose names he cannot remember. Frustrated that his songs were not given justice, he…

Twelve years ago, singer Richie Flo left his beloved home in rural St. Thomas parish, Jamaica for Toronto, Canada where he gradually made a name on that city’s reggae scene.

While he enjoys his adopted home, St. Thomas is never…

South Florida is the home of jerk festivals and Afro-conscious events like Rhythms Of Africa. On August 12, roots-reggae visits the region in the form of Culture Fest, which takes place at Lallo’s in Lauderhill.

Etana, Bugle, Fantan Mojah, Natural…

Throughout his 45-year career, Clement Gordon has worked with or watched some of the best producers in the music business including Clement Dodd, Jackie Mittoo and Sly and Robbie.

The ‘lessons’ he got from those legends served him well when…

Because of the danger associated with Covid-19, it has been some time since Warrior King went on tour. The roots singer breaks that drought this summer with shows in Costa Rica, United States and the Caribbean.

He does so with…