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Burning Spear—- By Deon Brown—- New York: In the Caribbean and around the world, Jamaican music continues to be celebrated for its sound and its sweetness, and the principled activist spirit of reggae. But even as the appeal of reggae is being acknowledged, there is some quiet soul-searching taking place with serious reggae lovers asking,...
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BY RICHARD JOHNSON —– LESS than a year after British film director Kevin MacDonald mentioned plans to make a film about reggae icon Peter Tosh, talks to do so have begun with the singer’s estate. Niambe McIntosh, daughter of the late singer, disclosed that they are currently working out the finer details of the...
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By Howard Campbell—– February is officially Black History Month in the United States. Throughout the month, the Jamaica Observer will acknowledge the contribution of African-Americans to Jamaican pop culture. Stevie Wonder JUST about every big artiste in the music business experimented with reggae in the early 1970s. The Staples Singers cut the massive I’ll...
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By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston GERMAN film-maker Volker Schaner is seeking additional funding to complete his documentary on legendary Jamaican music producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. Schaner, 45, placed Vision Of Paradise (the name of the project) on the kickstarter.com website — an online platform for funding creative projects — hoping to attract investors. Top: Director Volker...
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By Richard Johnson—– For Ziggy Marley, the accolades for the 2012 documentary Marley, which looks at the life of his iconic father Bob, are welcome. The film by Scottish director Kevin MacDonald is vying for a number of awards. It is nominated for a BAFTA (the British Academy Awards) in the category Best Documentary....
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BY HOWARD CAMPBELL— IF there are reggae fans who believe the music will one day return to its classic period of the 1970s, Ziggy Marley is not one of them. In an interview for the latest issue of Spinner magazine, Marley said it is foolhardy to think the music his father Bob Marley and...
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By Steve Karras—- Photo: Mark Squires— Much has been made of Matisyahu since he took clippers to his dangling beard and side-curls, 86′d the black fedora and shockingly emerged from his Hasidic outer shell one year ago. Recent photos of the international hip-hop, reggae sensation now reveal a clean-shaven, hip rocker, looking more...
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Desmond Dekker (left) and the Aces performing their 1968 Festival Song, ‘Intensified Festival’.— ‘Honour your Father and your Mother that your days may be long in the land’ – an excerpt from Exodus 20 verse 12, is one of the commandments handed down on tablets of stone to Moses by the Almighty. It must...
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Richie Spice— By Curtis Campbell—- Reggae artist Richie Spice has been crowned the new Prince of reggae in Brixton, England. According to his manager, Sophia Campbell, Richie Spice, born Richell Bonner, was crowned after he pulled thousands of reggae fans to aconcert in Brixton and delivered two hours of captivating reggae music from his catalogue. For more than two decades, the...
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Jamaican high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Aloun Assamba, smiles with Mayor of London Boris Johnson (centre) and Trinidad and Tobago High Commissioner Garvin Nicholas, at a special reception hosted by the mayor at City Hall on Monday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Independence for both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago—— Mayor of...
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