Yaawd MediaMar 254 minMikey Bennett Jamaican Songwriter and Music Producer In the corridors of Jamaica’s music industry, Michael “Mikey” Bennett has one of the most solid of reputations both as a songwriter and...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minWITH LADY SAW'S PLANNED RETURN, WILL DANCEHALL BE NICE AGAIN?The very minute former dancehall DJ turned preacher Marion Hall aka Lady Saw or Minister Marion Hall made the announcement, the space has...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minOVERDUE: ROBERT NESTA MARLEY -NATIONAL HEROIt is generally accepted that a hero is a person who is admired and acknowledged for their courage, outstanding achievements, and noble...
Yaawd MediaMar 254 minGunman ShiftThe issue of dancehall tunes promoting violence stepped once again into the spotlight after reports that upcoming Dancehall DJ Skeng's...
Yaawd MediaMar 258 minPETER TOSH, O.M.- He was indeed "The Toughest."He likened himself to a " Stepping Razor” and at times with a ganja spliff dangling from his lips, his M-16 shaped guitar slung across...
Yaawd MediaMar 253 minIt is time to Recognize Joe Higgs' Contribution to Jamaican Music.The name Joseph Benjamin Higgs is one that is hardly recognizable in Jamaican music circles unless it is stated as “Joe Higgs” in some...
Yaawd MediaMar 256 minJamaica's Yellowman is Dancehall's only KingFrom Rags Winston Foster also known as Yellowman, was born at 54 Chisholm Avenue, in Kingston 10 sometime in 1959. Essentially, Foster...
Yaawd MediaMar 254 minThe Burning Spear-Roots Reggae's Roving AmbassadorOne of the greatest proponents of what we now know as Roots Reggae is the Jamaican artiste known simply as "The Burning Spear." In order...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minBIG YOUTH-The All Conquering Dee Jay of the 1970s.Big Youth's Beginnings Big Youth was born in the Rae Town area of Kingston, Jamaica on April 19,1949, and christened Manley Augustus...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minTOOTS HIBBERT OJ, POSTHUMOUSLY COPS 2021 REGGAE GRAMMYTHE HONORABLE FREDERICK NATHANIEL "TOOTS" HIBBERT, O. J., posthumously copped the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae album with his...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minSLIM SMITH –THE LOSS OF THIS VOCAL TALENT WAS A JAMAICAN TRAGEDYThe late 1950s to early 1960s was a defining period in the history of Jamaica music as the successes of the pioneering Higgs and Wilson,...
Yaawd MediaMar 252 minKoffee is The Face of Jamaica's ReggaeEvery year more than 33,000 kids graduate from Jamaica's secondary school system and are confronted at that time with the task of...
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minTribute to Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford (09/21/1942-02/17/2021)Jamaica lost another of its musical sons with the passing on February 17, 2021, of Ewart Beckford OD, better known to Jamaicans as U-Roy....
Yaawd MediaMar 255 minPrince Buster OD, was THE UNSPOKEN “MUSIC KING” in JAMAICAPrince Buster was born Cecil Bustamante Campbell on May 24, 1938, at Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, and as a youth he attended the...
Yaawd MediaMar 256 minROBERT NESTA MARLEY, OM- ROOTS OF A LEGENDOne of the most influential figures in global music history, and most certainly, one of the most important in Jamaican music and its...
Yaawd MediaMar 254 minTRIBUTE TO THE MEMORIES left us by Dennis Emmanuel Brown, CD. Today is the start of Reggae Month 2021 and it is also the 64th anniversary of the birth of Jamaica's Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis...
Yaawd MediaMar 253 minJAMAICA REGGAE STORIES- Vere Johns"If you made it on the Vere John's Opportunity Hour, you'll make it anywhere." Jamaica's capital city Kingston in the 1950s, particularly...
Yaawd MediaMar 251 min10 REGGAE SONGS WORTH LISTENING TO This February is Reggae Month and the 14th year of a month-long observance of the music that has placed the island on the global cultural...
Yaawd MediaMar 256 minREGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 2)Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs It was the relationship between Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs that began in 1972, that would provide the most...
Yaawd MediaMar 253 minREGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 1)HUMBLE BEGINNINGS He was from a family from which some of its members were accustomed to being in the public’s eye. His father Arthur...