Trench Town Culture Yard fights for survival
ALTHOUGH he was born in rural Nine Miles, St Ann, it is with Trench Town, an inner-city slum beset by poverty and violence, that Bob Marley is most associated. It was there that a youthful Marley began a music career which was to propel him to superstardom. ...
Cezair-Thompson makes a mark with 'The Pirate's Daughter'
DID Errol Flynn really father a child by a teenaged Jamaican in the 1940s? Or is it just another of the many sensational rumours affixed to the former Hollywood star's name?The answer to both questions is no. Flynn's fictional tryst with a Port Antonio girl is merely the plot behind...
Stephen Marley takes 2008 Grammy with 'Mind Control'
STEPHEN Marley's Mind Control won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Sunday, at the 50th Grammy Awards, held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. It beat out The Burning Spear Experience by Burning Spear; Anniversary by Sly and Robbie; Lee 'Scratch' Perry's ...
ICON: Black Uhuru
Claim to fame: Waterhouse roots-reggae group which won the first Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, with Anthem, in 1984. Classic line-up: Michael Rose, Duckie Simpson and American Puma Jones. Anthem heard Black Uhuru going for a crossover feel on songs like ...
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