Kingston, Jamaica: The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's (JCDC) 2019 Jamaica Gospel Song winner, Joanna Walker has released a soulful Reggae cover of the international Gospel hit Excess Love.

In.Digg.Nation Collective, the label and artist management company founded by GRAMMY-nominated Jamaican artist Protoje and also home to Lila Iké and Sevana, announces a deal with Six Course/RCA Records. All three artists will release projects through a multi-album venture. 

Singer/songwriter Bob Andy, the voice behind several popular hits in the 1970s including “Young, Gifted and Black” in a duet with Marcia Griffiths, died late last month at his home in Jamaica. He was 77.

NORTH MIAMI, Fl. —  The City of North Miami’s 2020 Black History Month Celebration will conclude at The Rap UP, the official NoMi Music Fest After Party. The Rap UP will take place Saturday, Feb. 29, at 10 p.m. at the NoMi Red Garden, 12351 NW 7th Avenue, North Miami.

Reggae Films in the Park, a signature event series on the Reggae Month 2020 calendar, will be showcasing a free film-screening of the Jamaican music documentary Inna De Yard, the Soul of Jamaica, at the Emancipation Park in Kingston, this Friday, February 21, beginning at 7:00 p.m. 

St.George’s Grenada – Billed as one of the seven designers to watch at this year’s New York Fashion Week by Elle magazine, designer Fe Noel brought her new collection to life at New York’s Spring Studios Gallery Wednesday. Grenadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Keisha McGuire, celebrity publicist, Yvette Noel- Shure, Chief Executive Officer of the Grenada Tourism Authority, Patricia Maher, US Director of Sales, Christine Noel-Horsford, Sales Executive, Zachary Samuel, and General Manager at Silversands Grenada, Narelle McDougal, were seated front and on hand to provide support to this daughter of the soil.

The Kingston Waterfront came alive last nightat the opening night of the second annual staging ofAmateur Night on the Mound, a Roots, Rock and Reggae based talent competition series unearthing hidden talent in the Downtown Kingston area.

OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA – The 27th staging of Rebel Salute is being hailed as a resounding success. Approximately 20,000 local and international fans attended the two-day festival, billed as The People’s Show, at Grizzlys Plantation Cove in Ocho Rios. The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) was among the sponsors of the festival which for nearly three decades has made a significant contribution towards the preservation of reggae music.

Regal and radiant, Jah9 delves into an introspective sonic journey that enlightens its listeners along the way on her third studio album Note To Self, due March 13, 2020 on VP Records. As one of the leading forces in contemporary Jamaican music, the multi-talented artist and yogi blends her signature “jazz on dub” with reggae, soul and afrobeat funk into a rich warm concoction that celebrates self-care and love through Jah9's lens of clarity and strength.

The Jamaica Gospel Song Competition, will kick off its 2020 cycle with a series of four regional auditions,aimed at unearthing upcoming Gospel artistes from all 13 parishes across the island.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a San Francisco contemporary ballet troupe renowned for its superb, diverse dancers and for artistic leader Alonzo King’s distinctive blend of expressive, cutting-edge choreography with classical beauty.

Crystal Fox is no stranger to fans of Tyler Perry’s “The Have and the Have Nots.” Since the show premiered in 2013, it has remained one of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s most popular series and Fox’s character, Hanna Young, the prayer warrior mother of Candace (Tika Sumpter) and Benny (Tyler Lepley), is one of the show’s most popular and recognizable characters. So much so that Fox shared, during an exclusive phone interview with Urban News Service, that “people who meet me on the street love Hanna so much that [they] ask me to pray for them.”