Entertainment
December 9, 2025
Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile, Coco Jones for Super Bowl 2026 pregame
LOS ANGELES (AP): The Super Bowl pregame show will open with a trio of standout performers in Northern California: Charlie Puth will hit the stage to sing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile will take…
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Powerful ministry in song at Meadowvale SDA Music Day
Seventh-day Adventists are acknowledged as having the gift of singing, and, on the annual calendar of events for many churches is Music Day – that Sabbath when even the birds seem to pause and listen…
December 9, 2025
by Barbara Blake
Jimmy Cliff, me and ‘The Harder They Come’
I met Jimmy Cliff in 1964 when he first stepped foot onto English soil. I had some Jamaican friends Carl and ‘Pepsi’ who had been given the job of meeting him at the airport, and they asked me to…
December 9, 2025
AI country hit built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions
LOS ANGELES (AP): When an AI-generated country song called Walk My Walk hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artiste named Breaking…
December 9, 2025
New date for Debra Ehrhardt’s ‘Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree’
Two performances of Look What Fell Out De Mango Tree, actress and playwright Debra Ehrhardt’s newest play, have been rescheduled for January 17 and 18, 2026 at the University of Technology on Old Hope…
December 9, 2025
Jodian Pantry drops holiday single ‘My Christmas’
Jamaican singer Jodian Pantry releases her new holiday single, My Christmas, a soulful love song produced by Paul ‘Patchy’ Wright for IslandYard Productions. With warm vocals and a contemporary…
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Jimmy Cliff: The voice that still moves the world
Following his passing last Monday, Jimmy Cliff’s albums and singles took over both the iTunes Top 100 Reggae Albums and Top 100 Singles Charts. Music executive Maxine Stowe told The Sunday Gleaner…
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
5 Questions With America Foster
This week, 5 Questions With… caught up with America Foster, the British-Jamaican artiste, content creator, and performer, who joins Diplo, Walshy Fire, and Ape Drums as the fourth member of Major…
December 9, 2025
by Yasmine Peru
Hurricane Melissa won’t rain on Jamaica’s Christmas parade — Minister Grange
Reggae music is “a music for all seasons”, and Hurricane Melissa “is not going to rain on our parade”. That’s the word from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange…