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Designer Erika Olivares closes 2024 with “Nude Collection”, a celebration of neutral tones

The vision of the U.S.-based Dominican designer is to use fashion as a tool for social change. Dominican designer Erika Olivares has made one of her biggest dreams come true this year by launching a [...]
Editorial

When “Chanté Nwèl” rhymes with money, sex and debauchery

30 or 40 years ago, “Chanté Nwèl” (Sing Christmas) consisted of going from house to house in the neighborhoods where we lived, singing songs about the birth of Jesus, clapping hands, banging on pots and [...]
Music

King Jammy’s Unites The World With Dub

So much trouble in the world….Elder Reggae statesman King Jammy returns to his Dub laboratory to forge a new sonic message of positive vibrations in Dub. Jammy’s hand-picked peacekeeping force of Kingston 11 stalwarts precision [...]
Forum

Embracing the Feral in the Concrete Jungle of Kingston

Story written by Isis Semaj-Hall As a Jamaican writer-scholar, I am inclined to begin a discussion of Chain of Love: Rice and Peas Bush in Lower South Camp (2024), an ecological public artwork by [...]
Music

Paulo Albin, the man with the golden voice, has joined the stars

With the death of Jean-Paul Albin, better known as Paulo Albin, a huge part of Martinican music has gone. One of the singers in the famous La Perfecta orchestra passed away at La Meynard university [...]
Singing

T-Stone, the serial lover, sends a “Texto”

T-Stone has just released his new single entitled “Texto”. Guadeloupean urban singer has signed to Polydor France. In this production, T-Stone denounces the lack of courage of those – particularly men – who prefer to [...]
Painting

Spanish-speaking Caribbean artists exhibit at the Fondation Clément

This high place of culture in the town of Le François (Martinique) is hosting two new exhibitions that deserve to be seen. The first is entitled “Diferentes Miradas” (Different Views) and presented by twelve artists [...]

Music

“Every Man Ought To Know” by Max Romeo

22 November 2024

To celebrate Max Romeo’s 80th birthday this year on the 22nd of November we are re-releasing one of his early albums, Every Man Ought To Know, produced by Bunny ’Striker’ Lee and mixed at King […]

Music

Bulova ignite the streets with “Ruleteo” and “Fiesta y problema”

12 November 2024

The singer is also preparing two albums to be released in 2025 and a tour that will take him to cities in Europe, the United States and Colombia. With the sound that characterizes the music […]

Singing

Slaï and Emma’a rekindle the “Flamme”

10 November 2024

The Florilège album, which made Slaï one of the most emblematic figures on the zouk scene, is reissued twenty years after its release, and its hits are remastered. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary […]

Singing

Sizzla’s Modern Day Classic ‘Black Woman & Child’ (2024 Edition) Out 8th November

8 November 2024

Black Woman & Child truly is a milestone in Jamaican music from one of the most important and influential reggae artists of the modern era, Miguel Orlando Collins, known to the world as Sizzla Kalonji. […]

Singing

Culture’s ‘Humble African’ Remastered And Extended For 2024

6 November 2024

VP Records is proud to present the 2024 remastered and extended version of “Humble African”, one of Joseph ‘Culture’ Hill’s most evocative songs. The title track from his penultimate album before his untimely death in […]

Music

Rosa Lee emerges with force as a bachata’s newcomer

4 November 2024

She is promoting the song “Amargura”, while preparing a new musical production. After debuting in music in bachata bands, singer Rosa Lee emerges with strength with her solo project and continues her rise in the […]