Minister Marion Hall With a musical fusion of gospel, soul and R&B, with flavours of rap, and dancehall, Minister Marion Hall’s latest single I’m Doing Better was released on the Downsound Records label. It has been described as a powerful message of triumph, praise, and faith delivered in an engaging package. The song is a joint project by Hall, Downsound Entertainment CEO Joe Bogdanovich, and exceptional Jamaican musician and producer Gramps Morgan. Hall attributes the vision and rendering of … Read entire article »

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Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer Controversial dancehall artiste Bounty Killer believes that the rising genre of Afrobeats, when compared to dancehall, “has no lyrics”. Bounty Killer, who made the comments during a viral interview with I Never Knew TV, drew a comparison between Afrobeats and dancehall. He said dancehall’s problem is its “topics”, which are now only limited to scamming, and this the dancehall veterans said, is the reason Afrobeats is “taking over.” “Afrobeats have no lyrics; they have … Read entire article »

Abdullah el-Faisal NEW YORK (AP) — A cleric arrested in his native Jamaica and extradited to New York to face state terrorism charges on accusations of recruiting support for the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison. Abdullah el-Faisal was convicted in January in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on counts including soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism. The state law he was prosecuted under was put in place after the … Read entire article »

The deceased Carlton Livingston (Photo: Facebook/ Neville Livingston) Carlton Livingston, the patriarch of the Livingston family and brother of the late reggae superstar Bunny Wailer, is dead. Born March 25, 1945, Livingston died on Thursday, two days short of his 78th birthday. Donna Carradice, the sister of the late Bunny Wailer, made the announcement on Facebook Thursday evening with a heartfelt post under the name ‘Neville Livingston’. “Carlton Livingston, the first son of Thaddeus Livingston and elder brother of … Read entire article »