Music People Jamaican Star NewsBy Carl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer Patrick 'Tony Rebel' Barrett, whose Rebel Salute show has been sponsored over the years by Jewel Resorts and Hilton Rose Hall, was awarded the Key to the Resorts at the show's international media launch at Jewel Dunn's River on Wednesday night.... ...read more
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By Michael Reckord /Gleaner Writer A great test of quality is longevity; the longer something lasts, the better it is deemed to be. Since playwrights are judged similarly, it follows that Barbara Gloudon and Basil Dawkins are among our best.Gloudon has written and produced more than... ...read more
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By Sade Gardner/Gleaner Writer Grammy-winning superstar Buju Banton has promised to deliver an energetic 90-minute set at the Kingston leg of the Long Walk to Freedom tour on March 16.The artiste, who has not performed in Jamaica for nearly a decade, promised fans in a recorded... ...read more
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By Kimberley Small/Gleaner Writer Like Dorothy down a psychedelic yellow brick road, shining gold with each step, 18-year-old reggae singjay Koffee is charting her own path in the music industry. In almost a year, she has already become a local household name, with a steadily... ...read more
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The website for tickets to Buju Banton's Long Walk to Freedom concert crashed this morning minutes after it went live. Tickets went on sale on bujubanton.com at 11 o'clock for the long-awaited Jamaican leg of the entertainer's concert... ...read more
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By AssociateP NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys usually attends the Grammys, but this year she'll be there as a host. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the R&B star will host the February 10 show for the first time. The Grammys will air... ...read more
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LOS ANGELES (AP):Rihanna is suing her father over his use of their last name for a business. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, says that her father, Ronald Fenty, and... ...read more
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By Marcia Rowe/Gleaner Writer It was a series of interesting twists, and in the end, the player gets played. That's how the story unfolded in Aisha Davis and David Tulloch's What Goes Around, now showing at the Blue Room at the Phoenix Theatre Complex on Haining Road in New... ...read more
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Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price, or 'Mr Glass', as he prefers to be called, was by far the most compelling part of M. Night Shyamalan's slow-burn, comic-book send-up Unbreakable. A brilliant, tortured manipulator and superhero enthusiast, suffering... ...read more
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This Sunday January 13, 2019, 11: 30 am at Palace Cineplex, witness the work that marks a turning point in the genre and is the oldest and longest surviving of the classical ballets known... ...read more
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