Rose blooms again in Waterhouse
MICHAEL Rose has fond memories of growing up in Waterhouse, the second child of a 'litter' born to working-class parents. It's where he started a career that has made him one of roots-reggae's acclaimed singers. Last year, the 50-year-old Rose went back to his hometown to work...
Royal treatment for Tarrus Riley at Reggae Academy Awards
ROOTS-REGGAE singer Tarrus Riley, who captured the imagination with his sensational album, Parables, won four awards at the inaugural Reggae Academy Awards, held Sunday evening at the National Indoor Sports Centre. Riley won the Best Reggae Song, Best Solo Male Vocal Performance...
Coen brothers rule Oscar country
LOS ANGELES (AP): They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney's face.
Producer Joe Gibbs dead at 65
RECORD producer Joel 'Joe Gibbs' Gibson, whose partnership with singer Dennis Brown yielded a string of hit songs during the 1970s, died last Thursday at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Gibbs' son, Rocky, told The Gleaner that his father died...
Something extra
The stars of reggae music shone brightly for the inaugural Reggae Academy Awards at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday...
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