Election songs logging on to a new beat
Remember back in the day when the main music associated with political parties were already hit songs? For example in 1993 when the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) used the Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland hit...
The evolution of 'Nine Night'
Before: Walk Holy, Walk Holy... A mixture of lively and solemn songs fill the night air until daybreak. The lovely harmony of voices take on a poignant quality as they reverberate over the hills and plains.
Making the video, making the break
The power of the music video is probably most cleverly wrapped up in the phrase 'The MTV Generation'. The term connotes that there is an entire generation of people who not only watch music videos...
'Belly buss' at JCDC awards
Guest Performers Jodi-Ann Bowen and Faith D'Aguilar caused laughter among the patrons at the Jamaica Creative Writing Competition Awards on a night when the judges' report on the competition had put a damper on the spirits of some of the entrants...
Debt crashes into 'Gospel Train'
The fourth staging of the annual Gospel Train concert series never 'choo-chooed' out of its station this year due to engine problems that were financially related. The Glory Music-promoted event would have usually travelled across the island...
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