WITH LADY SAW'S PLANNED RETURN, WILL DANCEHALL BE NICE AGAIN?
The very minute former dancehall DJ turned preacher Marion Hall aka Lady Saw or Minister Marion Hall made the announcement, the space has...
top of page
BLOG
Search
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
OVERDUE: ROBERT NESTA MARLEY -NATIONAL HERO
It is generally accepted that a hero is a person who is admired and acknowledged for their courage, outstanding achievements, and noble...
28 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
Gunman Shift. Is it a Celebration of Violence or Jamaican Reality?
As Jamaica continues to grapple with its spiraling crime problems, once again the issue of dancehall tunes promoting violence stepped...
397 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20228 min read
PETER TOSH, O.M.- He was indeed "The Toughest."
He likened himself to a " Stepping Razor” and at times with a ganja spliff dangling from his lips, his M-16 shaped guitar slung across...
102 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20223 min read
It is time to Recognize Joe Higgs' Contribution to Jamaican Music.
The name Joseph Benjamin Higgs is one that is hardly recognizable in Jamaican music circles unless it is stated as “Joe Higgs” in some...
25 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20226 min read
Jamaica's Yellowman is Dancehall's only King
From Rags Winston Foster also known as Yellowman , was born at 54 Chisholm Avenue, in Kingston 10 sometime in 1959. Essentially, Foster...
106 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20224 min read
The Burning Spear-Roots Reggae's Roving Ambassador
One of the greatest proponents of what we now know as Roots Reggae is the Jamaican artiste known simply as "The Burning Spear." In order...
32 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
BIG YOUTH-The All Conquering Dee Jay of the 1970s.
Big Youth's Beginnings Big Youth was born in the Rae Town area of Kingston, Jamaica on April 19,1949, and christened Manley Augustus...
11 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
TOOTS HIBBERT OJ, POSTHUMOUSLY COPS 2021 REGGAE GRAMMY
THE HONORABLE FREDERICK NATHANIEL "TOOTS" HIBBERT, O. J., posthumously copped the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae album with his...
10 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
SLIM SMITH –THE LOSS OF THIS VOCAL TALENT WAS A JAMAICAN TRAGEDY
The late 1950s to early 1960s was a defining period in the history of Jamaica music as the successes of the pioneering Higgs and Wilson,...
85 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Koffee is The Face of Jamaica's Reggae
Every year more than 33,000 kids graduate from Jamaica's secondary school system and are confronted at that time with the task of...
15 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
Tribute to Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford (09/21/1942-02/17/2021)
Jamaica lost another of its musical sons with the passing on February 17, 2021, of Ewart Beckford OD, better known to Jamaicans as U-Roy....
11 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20225 min read
Prince Buster OD, was THE UNSPOKEN “MUSIC KING” in JAMAICA
Prince Buster was born Cecil Bustamante Campbell on May 24, 1938, at Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, and as a youth he attended the...
102 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20226 min read
ROBERT NESTA MARLEY, OM- ROOTS OF A LEGEND
One of the most influential figures in global music history, and most certainly, one of the most important in Jamaican music and its...
37 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20224 min read
TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORIES left us by Dennis Emmanuel Brown, CD.
Today is the start of Reggae Month 2021 and it is also the 64th anniversary of the birth of Jamaica's Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis...
27 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20223 min read
JAMAICA REGGAE STORIES- Vere Johns
"If you made it on the Vere John's Opportunity Hour, you'll make it anywhere." Jamaica's capital city Kingston in the 1950s, particularly...
93 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20221 min read
10 REGGAE SONGS WORTH LISTENING TO
This February is Reggae Month and the 14th year of a month-long observance of the music that has placed the island on the global cultural...
10 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20226 min read
REGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 2)
Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs It was the relationship between Dennis Brown and Joe Gibbs that began in 1972, that would provide the most...
20 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20223 min read
REGGAE'S CROWN PRINCE- Dennis Emanuel Brown C.D. (Part 1)
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS He was from a family from which some of its members were accustomed to being in the public’s eye. His father Arthur...
6 views0 comments
Yaawd Media
Mar 25, 20227 min read
John K. Holt O.D. - A JAMAICAN LEGEND
John Kenneth Holt was born in the Greenwich Farm area of Kingston, Jamaica, on July 11, 1947 and made his entry into the Jamaican music...
56 views0 comments
Blog: Blog2
bottom of page