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Paul Crossdale with his awards at the Grammy Certificate Ceremony held last Saturday at the Audi Showroom in New Kingston.
September 2025 by Natasha Williams

‘It feels great to be recognised’

Multiple Grammy-certified keyboardist and arranger, Paul ‘Wrong Move’ Crossdale, was almost moved to tears after sharing his excitement on being finally recognised as one of the pioneer keyboardists,…
Tramell Tillman accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for ‘Severance’ during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
September 2025

Tramell Tillman makes Emmys history with ‘Severance’ win

LOS ANGELES (AP): Tramell Tillman is the first black man to win an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Severance. Tillman spoke backstage Sunday about the…
Playwright David Tulloch.
September 2025 by Yasmine Peru

Lasco Chin Foundation champions the culture

Award-winning playwright David Tulloch took just one week to complete a script about National Hero Sam Sharpe, a project which he found particularly fulfilling. The production will have its…
Diaspora Affairs Consultant, Donnaray Roc, is also the executive producer of the Echoes of Renaissance Summit to be held in Ghana in February 2026.
September 2025

Creatives eye opportunities at Echoes of Renaissance summit in Ghana

Jamaican creatives, filmmakers, musicians and music industry professionals are eyeing an upcoming event, the Echoes of the Renaissance Summit and One Love Xperience, which will convene in Accra,…
From left: Jason Sawyers; Katrina Grant-D’Aguilar; Andrei Roper; Basillia Barnaby-Cuff; Brian Cuff; Ingrid Banton; Demron Anderson; Gerald Gordon; and Wendell Lawrence at the launch of the 2025 Sterling Gospel Music Awards at the R Hotel last Thursday.
September 2025

Sterling Gospel Music Awards unveils 2025 nominees

The Sterling Gospel Music Awards (SGMA), which has become known as “the Caribbean’s premier gospel music awards show”, recently unveiled the official nominees for its ninth staging, set to take place…
This image released by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows a scene from ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle’.
September 2025

‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ claims top box office spot

LOS ANGELES (AP): Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle carved out a place in box office history this weekend as the Japanese anime film sliced straight to No. 1 – outpacing the horror…
Michelle Williams, VP Records’ regional director of Caribbean and Latin America, and Professor Densil Williams, principal of the UWI, Mona campus, at the launch of the VP Foundation ECEM Scholarship.
September 2025

VP Foundation and UWI launch ECEM Scholarship

On Tuesday, the Vincent and Patricia VP Foundation, in partnership with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona, officially…
This cover image released by Capitol Records shows ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’ by Calum Scott and Whitney Houston.
September 2025

A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made a song with late star

NEW YORK (AP): It sounds impossible, but that’s the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death. English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a…
KQualiti launched his recording career in 2018 and is currently working on projects with Blacker Dread out of the UK and Stackz&Brixxx Records.
September 2025

KQualiti kicks hard with ‘Van Persi’

The cultural synergy between dancehall music and football is undeniable, intertwined through shared origins in black culture, fashion and lifestyle. Football has always been a sport providing…