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Digicel Talent Stage delivers great experience at Reggae Sumfest |
Source: Jamaican Gleaner
Date: 28th July 2010
The experience that the organisers market as the "greatest Reggae Show on Earth", Reggae Sumfest, was made bigger and better for patrons thanks to the Festival's official telecommunications partner Digicel. The mobile phone company, for the fourth year in a row, presented its exciting Digicel Talent Stage, which featured upcoming artistes in performance during the night.
Denyque, Raine Seville, Natel, D-Major, Tanto Blacks, Keida, Princess Tia and more, were among the young talented stars on stage.
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Reggae, Sugar Minott and Nahki — the Japanese experience |
Source: Jamaican Gleaner
Date: 23rd July 2010
IT would seam nothing short of divine providence, a week after the passing of reggae/dancehall kingpin Sugar Minott, that a Japanese professor in music presented a paper in Kingston, Jamaica on the birth and impact of reggae in Japan in which the role of the departed crooner was highlighted.
Under the theme 'Locating the Japanese and the Jamaican in Japanese Reggae/Dancehall', Professor Noriko Manabe's paper, presented in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre, UWI, Mona on Tuesday, focused on the indigenisation of the Jamaican music in Japan.
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Ripe mangoes and reggae for Charles and Camilla |
Source: London Today
Date: 21st July 2010
Shoppers and stall owners were amazed as the royal couple stopped to discuss vegetables, meat and clothes on sale.
Hairdresser Vivian Alle, 40, said: “Charles asked me lots of questions about how I was. I fell in love with him straight away. He's not proud — some people wouldn't come to Brixton.”
Fruit seller Derek Chong, 50, gave the Duchess of Cornwall a box of 10 mangoes in a reusable hessian bag. He said: “She asked me what was good, so I told her the mangoes were ripe and gave her a box.”
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Reggae artist Sugar Minott dies |
Source: CBC News
Date: 12th July 2010
Jamaican reggae artist and producer Sugar Minott died Saturday at age 54.
His wife Maxine Stowe said he died unexpectedly in a Kingston, Jamaica, hospital after complaining of feeling ill earlier in the day. No cause of death was released.
Minott had cancelled a string of Canadian concerts in May because of health problems, reported to be angina.
The smooth-voiced singer helped popularize reggae in the 1970s and 1980s with hits such as Good Thing Going, Vanity and Mr. DC.
He also was a pioneer of the Jamaican dance-hall scene, and known as a mentor to young Jamaican artists.
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