In it’s first week of release Shaggy’s latest Album titled Intoxication debuted at number 1 on the Billboard to Reggae Albums chart.
Other interesting albums on the charts include Ky-Mani Marley’s Radio, I Wayne’s Book of Life and Movado’s Gangsta For Life / The Symphony Of David Brooks.
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Friendsation.com is a free online dating site that offers free personals to members all over the world. It offers regular and advance dating site features such as buddy lists, free chat, blogging, voice personals and much more.
Friendsation is in beta stage but offers a popular location to find friends and online dating via an easy to use dating site.
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After finding broad success and mass appeal with her string of catchy singles and her last studio album, Fyah Mumma, royal reggae empress Ventrice Morgan (known to fans as Queen Ifrica) says she is now poised for greater heights in the music industry. And we believe her. As soon as she kicks the first verse of her 2007 runaway chart-topper Below The Waist, you immediately recognise an artiste in great lyrical form. But hearing her deliver her thought-provoking messages on tracks like Daddy and Rasta Nuh Chat Rasta, it becomes clear that the Kingston native, now 32, is certainly not the same artiste she was five years ago. Was she holding out on us all along? At its core, Queen’s music is still reggae with a ‘toops’ of dancehall, yet it gives a taste of her singing talent, which, contrary to her I’m-not-a-girly-girl persona, is surprisingly sweet.
She recently sat down with the Sunday Observer to talk about spreading messages through her music, handling harsh criticism, her Rastafarian faith and her hopes for Jamaica and the future of her career.
Sunday Observer: With all the love you’ve been getting from fans and music lovers in recent times, how are you handling all the attention?
Queen: It’s all good. When you work hard at something, you feel good when you get the reward. I guess people are just rewarding me for the good music I have been putting out. I write all my music so that makes it even more special (Laughs).
Sunday Observer: Your hit single Below The Waist touches on the issue of domestic violence. Why such a topic?
Queen: It’s just another reality of everyday life. Everybody knows that in relationships you are going to have ups and downs but it is important for the lovers to remember why they decided to be together in the first place. Fighting and quarrelling doesn’t solve anything. It is even worse when the children might be affected. We have to be especially careful and remember to take care of the kids. [...]
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The annual Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival will be taking place for the 11th next year. From January 24 – 26, 2008, music lovers at home and from abroad will be welcomed to the beautiful Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay for the 3 day musical presentation. World famous musicians like Dianna Ross, Billy Ocean and Anita Baker to name a few will put their musical talents on show for patrons of one of the most anticipated entertainment events of the year.
Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival 2008 Website
Visit the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival website for information about next year’s staging, the full line-up, ticket information, the history of the show and much more.
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The words of ‘Daddy Don’t Touch Me There’ might not be Queen Ifrica’s personal experience but she had no problem delivering the song convincingly on Monday during the launch of ‘Get the Picture: Drawing the Line Against Child Abuse’.
The launch, which took the form of a candle-light vigil, was put on by the Child Development Agency (CDA) as part of the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Those in attendance were asked to march around the park with glow sticks for the 279 children who have been killed since the start of the year. Additionally, 279 balloons were simultaneously released in the air in recognition of the deceased children.
“These are some serious things taking place in our society; we can do something about it by speaking up. Today, November 19, I want the abuse against our youths to stop,” said Ifrica near to the end of her performance. [...]
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Intro
stop it daddy
daddy stop it nuh
a going to tell on you enuh
CHORUS:2X
daddy don’t touch mi there
i’m gonna tell on you one day i swear
can’t you see i’m scared
you suppose to be ma father
VERSE:1
everyday a wonder why ma daddy had to be di one to take away my innocence
oh sometimes a wanna die feels like no one cares for me and it’s evident
that something must be wrong with me
i’m not as happy as i seem to be
the long showers i take don’t wash away the memories
why do i have to face these tragedies
we go thru struggles in life i’m aware
but to have ma daddy touching me that’s just not fair
stop him from destroying ma future
believe me he’s behaving like a creature
RPT CHORUS:
VERSE:2
to all you mothers out there
give a listening ear
pay attention even if di man a pastor
yuh affi mek sure before yuh trust him wid yuh daughta
plus him will even try fi tek yuh son as brawta
watch it mek mi duck him wid some dutty watah
yuh cyaah hide nuh more now yuh affi meet yuh karma
if yuh know seh it a gwaan and turn a blind eye
den yuh judgment ago pile up bout a mile high
get suicidal if yuh tink it ago save yuh
because mi sure seh yuh naah guh get fi si di saviour
mi just cyaah find a name fi yuh behaviour
is a lucky ting wi got a nosey neighbour
RPT CHORUS:
VERSE:3
when yuh feel like giving up
just shake it off and live it up
di most high will deliver you
cyaah jump di rope if yuh nuh try
suh wipe da tears deh from yuh eye
get di wings of confidence fi mek yuh fly
tribulations a just fi mek yuh stronga
love yuh self and it will help yuh fi get ova
any flesh weh hurt a likkle yute will neva prospa
a passing on di message from di masta
RPT VERSE:1
RPT CHORUS:
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Alicia Keys performs her latest hit “No One” at the 2007 American Music awards. He performance was peppered by Jamaica’s reggae and Dancehall music and featured Junior Reid, Chaka Demus & Pliers & Beenie Man.
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Recently, at the end of an interview with Empress and Steven Golding on NewsTalk 93 FM’s On The Corner, I was asked the programme’s question of the day, “Do we own Reggae?”
Unfortunately, because the programme was wrapping up for the main evening news, I did not have enough time for a comprehensive answer. I instinctively and nationalistically gave the simplistic one word answer of ‘yes’. This issue, however, is a complex one deserving a more in-depth response. In any dispassionate examination of the question, the music business will have to be addressed separately from the music itself. Even so, in today’s context, no discussion of the ownership of Reggae music can ignore the fact that its international appeal and dimensions have penetrated all the continents.
Did you know that the latest major Reggae star is Matisyahu, a Jewish kid from New York who does a sub-genre called Hasidic Reggae? His album Youth was nominated for the 2007 Reggae Grammy, alongside Buju Banton, Ziggy Marley, UB40 and riddim-duo Sly and Robbie, who had collaborated with him in late 2006 on the digital single version of Jerusalem, originally featured on Youth. [...]
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It is the first-ever Academy Awards to take place in Jamaica and already hundreds of artistes producers and other reggae music interests have been signing up to participate in next February’s first staging.
The Reggae Academy has been established through the initiative of the Recording Industry Association of Jamaica (RIAJam), with a view to create the necessary infrastructure for the planning and presentation of the Reggae Academy Awards, an annual event geared towards the Jamaican and international reggae music communities.
The organisers of the academy felt there was the need to create an award event to recognise and celebrate excellence in reggae, which would encompass producers, songwriters, vocalists, engineers and music video directors.
And those who applied before October 1 will be entitled to participate in the process of determining the recordings, artistes and producers that will be up for consideration in 34 proposed categories. Plans are already in high gear, as RIAJam had been encouraging practitioners in the music industry to submit their applications by then.
So far, says entertainment lawyer and member of the organising team, Lloyd Stanbury, “Just over a hundred persons made deadlines and we still have a few that we are processing.” [...]
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Kingston is Jamaica’s largest city and the international capital of reggae and dancehall music. Everyone knows that music is one of the main reasons why Jamaica is instantly recognized and so many visitors come far and wide to experience Kingston and the entire Jamaica. A Hotel Guide is very vital to any visitor looking to prepare well for a visit and the city travel guides provided by hotelsbycity.net does a wonderful job of giving visitors a proper synopsis on what kind of experience they can expect from visiting Kingston.
The guide covers the entire Kingston area, attractions and events inside and on the outskirts of the city and much more. Looking to visiting Kingston? This hotel guide provides all the information you need about Jamaica’s capital.
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