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Reggae legend and icon, Marcia Griffiths, charmed her audience, while giving a talk at the 6th annual Jamaica Music Conference (JMC), held in Jamaica earlier this month. Speaking to an audience of upcoming artists, artist managers, fans and industry stakeholders, ...

It has been close to a decade since GRAMMY award-nominated Julian Marley delivered his critically acclaimed “Awake” album. And since fans and music lovers have been clamoring for another musical offering, the reggae star has announced the January 25 release ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 12, 2018 (CMC) – Veteran calypsonian, Calypso Rose, will be awarded the Grand Prize for World Music when she attends the Sacem Grand Prix in France, next month. Calypso Rose, 78, the holder ...

NEW YORK CITY, New York October 31, 2018 — Jamaica-born fashionista and celebrity blogger, Diva Madonna Williams, owner of the newly-opened Glamsense Divas Beauty Bar in Pelham, New York, is counting her lucky stars, as her fashion business continues to ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago October 23, 2018 (CMC) – The University of the West Indies (UWI) said, today, the honourary Doctor of Letters degree that would have been conferred on Winston Bailey, the legendary Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, ...

TORONTO, Canada October 16, 2018 — On Friday evening, Red Plastic Bag, the popular, 10-time Calypso Monarch of Barbados and one of the country’s four Cultural Ambassadors, plans to take the 400-plus patrons, expected at his upcoming concert, on a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica October 17, 2018 — Celebrated actor, singer, songwriter and social activist, Harold George Belafonte Jr., 91 —  born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. — was awarded, in absentia, with Jamaica’s fourth highest award, the Order of Merit (OM), for his ...

By Nadiya Ali Contributing Writer Muslim women in the West have been battling inaccurate stereotypes for ages. In the post-Sept. 11 era, Muslim women have come to be seen as one-dimensional figures in need of saving by the “West” and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 3, 2018 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government led the tribute to ace pannist, arranger and music composer, Ken “Professor” Philmore, who died at the San Fernando Hospital, south of here, yesterday, ...

By Leah Kardos Guest Writer It is no coincidence that two of Aretha Franklin’s celebrated contemporaries who travelled to Detroit to see the singer in the last stages of her illness were Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson. It is hard ...