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VETERAN SINGER/SONGWRITER STRANGER COLE, TO RECEIVE THE “ICON AWARD” FROM THE JAMAICA REGGAE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (JaRIA)!

February 25th, 2016 | Add a Comment

Stranger Cole– FOR veteran artist Stranger Cole, being recognized by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA), is overwhelming. The singer, born Wilburn Theodore Cole, will receive an Icon Award at JaRIA’s honors ceremony at Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston, on Sunday. “I feel so honored to be getting something for the work that I have done,” he told the Jamaica Observer. “What makes me feel even better is that I am receiving this honor while I am still alive. So many of the vintage music artistes are recognized after we pass on. So this makes me feel very special, especially since I am still working after all these years.” Cole recently returned from Australia and Germany. Next month, he heads to England and Japan for more shows.He got his break in the early 1960’s, around … Read entire article »

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VETERAN SINGER/SONGWRITER ERNIE SMITH, IS GRATEFUL FOR HIS JaRIA AWARD!

February 14th, 2016 | Add a Comment

BY RICHARD JOHNSON— Ernie Smith— FOR a second year, singer and songwriter Ernie Smith is being recognized by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) at their honor awards. And, like last year, he’ll be unable to attend. Smith, 71, is being lauded for his exceptional contribution as a songwriter. The ceremony is slated for the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston on Saturday, February 28. “I was like oh man! It’s the second time and I can’t make the show. But I am so grateful and just want to thank JaRIA for considering me. I also just have to be thankful to God and everybody out there for still giving me work to the extent that unfortunately, it conflicts with the awards…I am really just so grateful,” Smith told the Sunday Observer. Smith — who is … Read entire article »

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THE JAMAICA REGGAE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (JaRIA) TO HONOR 17 NOTED STALWARTS, FEBRUARY 28!

January 28th, 2016 | Add a Comment

Top: Yellow Man Bottom: Alan Magnus—- SOME of Jamaican music’s noted stalwarts will be honored by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) during its annual awards at Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston on February 28. Pioneer artist, sound system operator and producer Prince Buster tops the list of awardees. He is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Born Cecil Campbell, Prince Buster is responsible for some of reggae’s early iconic songs. They include his Wash, Wash and Judge Dread, as … Read entire article »

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THE HISTORY OF REGGAE IN TORONTO!

December 29th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Posted by Guest Contributor— Louise Bennett— The history of reggae in Toronto, one of the strongest cities in the world for this genre and its offshoots, can’t merely be a rundown of notable bands — it’s bound up in an infrastructure of musicians, venues, promoters and record stores. It’s also about the tension of artists trying to succeed in both Canada and in the reggae universe with Jamaica as its axis. Most of all, unsurprisingly, it’s tied to Jamaican people in Canada. Jamaicans came to Toronto in large numbers in the 50s and 60s, and since then have somewhat determined the tenor of Toronto’s black community while spreading their music to a multicultural fan base in Toronto, all the while maintaining possession of it. Caribbean immigrants’ arrival in Toronto goes back well over 100 years … Read entire article »

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STRANGER COLE: THE PROLIFIC, THE BRILLIANT!

July 1st, 2012 | Add a Comment

Stranger Cole is easily one of the longest-serving entertainers in Jamaican popular music. His entertainment career stretches as far back as 1961 when he auditioned for producer Duke Reid with his composition In And Out The Window. But the Duke wasn’t impressed, believing that Stranger would do better as a songwriter or singing in duet. That first composition – a tuneful patchwork of nursery rhyme fragments, was instead successfully recorded by the more colourful, Eric ‘Monty’ Morris that same year. Cole’s recording career would not … Read entire article »

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