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Jamaica Gleaner

  • Kartel and Mavado give full course meal at A Taste of Sumfest

    Notwithstanding a change of venue from its usual home in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, to Plantation Cove in St Ann, and the festival being scaled down to one night only, A Taste of Sumfest, the crowd support for the annual showpiece event did not falter. By the time headliners Worl’Boss Vybz Kartel and Gully Gad Mavado were ready to grace the stage, the venue was spilling over with patrons eager for what many had waited years to witness.

  • Excitement builds for Festival Song Competition Results Show

    The countdown is on as preparations intensify for the highly anticipated 2026 Jamaica Festival Song Competition Results Show, set for this Saturday, July 25 at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre.
    Produced by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the 60-year-old competition is the longest-running event of its kind in the country.

  • Fantan Mojah was ‘a powerful voice for conscious reggae music’

    Reggae singer Fantan Mojah was born Owen Moncrieffe on August 5, 1976, in St Elizabeth. After a start in the dancehall scene under the moniker Mad Killer as a tribute to Bounty Killer, whom he admired, he soon came to embrace Rastafari.

  • Lady G still gets ‘Nuff Respect’

    Having started deejaying on sound systems at just 16, Lady G says those early years taught her the discipline needed to build a career that is sustainable rather than seasonal.
    “My first hit song happened when I was around 19, which was Nuff Respect,” she told The Gleaner.

  • Fire energy at ‘Heights of Fire’ listening party

    One of the fiery moments of Capleton’s listening party for his Heights of Fire album at Janga’s Soundbar & Grill Sports Bar on Wednesday was the reaction when the selector dropped track No. 7, Babylon So Evil. It was a pull-up moment when the sounds of Dennis Brown’s voice on Love and Hate came through the speakers, followed by those of Capleton, Stephen Marley and Damion Marley.