Grammy-nominated reggae artiste Protoje releases homage-paying Like Royalty video single to further tease his hotly anticipated upcoming fifth full-length album, and first Six Course/RCA debut project, In Search Of Lost Time. The seasoned multi-hyphenate performer, […]
On Episode 21 of Reasonings With Odessa podcast, Nigeria and Jamaica connect. Odessa catches up with British/Nigerian actor Wale Ojo to talk about his latest movie Kassanoa now on Netflix, the Black Lives Matter movement […]
Nigeria dancehall artiste Patoranking releases a video for the infectious lead single Abule, from his upcoming album, Three. The project is the collaborative effort of his Amari Musiq imprint and US-based EMPIRE label. The mesmeric […]
Singer-songwriter Sevana releases second video, Mango, from her six-track major label debut, Be Somebody. The saccharine visuals of the J.L.L.-produced earworm help to assertively petition the summer banger inventory. The Mango imagery – comprising vibrant […]
Multi-hyphenate performer and musician Tessellated has impressively insinuated himself into the ‘summer banger’ discussion with the entrancing No Ansa, which features afrobeats rising star Crayon. The pioneering producer and performer is best known for skillfully […]
Grammy award-winning recording artiste and international pop chart mainstay, Sean Paul, recently achieved a major musical milestone with UK electro-pop band Clean Bandit‘s Rockabye, on which the Jamaican features with British singer-songwriter Anne-Marie. The wildly […]
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Chronixx releases new Cool As The Breeze/Friday single, with an accompanying video, ahead of his highly anticipated Soul Circle Music album, Dela Splash. “Memba everyday ah summer when yuh deh ah Jamaica,” […]
Reggae legend Bob Marley’s more-than-four-decades-old beloved unity anthem, One Love, has been aptly reinterpreted for the recently launched United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund’s #Reimagine global campaign. “Over forty years ago, my father wrote One […]
Grammy award-winning artiste Koffee releases new Lockdown single, with an accompanying video that is directed by Yannick Reid. The catchy quarantine-inspired love song pours out clever lyrics meant to effect an otherwise mundane and largely […]
The upcoming summer staging of the popular Sumfest annual event will take on an all-virtual production, having had to abandon the usual venue-patron-artiste trinity. This new operating protocol has been adopted to observe safety measures […]
Beloved western Jamaican songbird Sevana took time out for a tête-à-tête with OAJ. The young but sophisticated vocalist is delighted at the upcoming release of her major label debut, before delineating the nuances of shooting […]
Team OAJ caught up with journalist-turned-entrepreneur Debra Edwards (DE) to talk about brand DAE, among other things. For some time you were best known as a journalist. Have you always been a designer, as well? […]
Grammy Award winning record producer, and all-round music maven, Salaam Remi has curated the talents of several iconic musicians for his Louder Than Life Records release stylised Is It Because Im Black, from the upcoming […]
New York-based deejay Ajji heads into the warm season with the release of the aptly titled single, Live For The Summer. The artiste elicited a little help from dancehall luminaries Busy Signal and Stylo G […]
Westmoreland-born Reggae singer Khalia releases new lover’s rock single and video for track Love Is Real. The singjay belts “love is reaaaal, and I can feeeeel it” on the feel-good, catchy chorus of the Tony […]
Grammy nominated Jamaican vocalist Etana releases 12-track Gemini album, her sixth full-length offering. Two singles, Bubble and Truly, had been released prior to the Freemind Music-Zojak World Wide collaboration’s debut. The project showcases the singer’s […]
Grammy award-nominated reggae artistes Junior Reid and Julian Marley team up for a social commentary tribute to the Earth, on the single Mother Nature. The single unambiguously poses questions about the wide-ranging abuse meted out […]
Fifteen-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter-producer Alicia Keys (AK) teed up with fellow virtuoso, and lone black male EGOT, John Legend (JL) to celebrate the Juneteenth staging of the wildly popular Verzuz set. The string maestros, and […]
Grammy award-winning singer Buju Banton releases Blessed, following an exclusive listening session for his eagerly anticipated studio album, Upside Down. The single drips 90’s dancehall elements. Understandably so, since Banton managed to reassemble ‘the dream […]
Multi-hyphenate musician Dre Island releases his 13-track debut on his namesake Dre Island Music imprint, along with New York-based DubShot Records. The album, Now I Rise, is a potpourri of life songs, love songs, redemption […]
International soca monarch Fay-Ann Lyons took to social media to reassure black people, in the United States of America, that Caribbean nationals are sympathetic to, and do understand, their enduring struggle. The performer offered words […]
Jamaican singer-songwriter Chronixx stopped by Rolling Stone to recount some of his “first times” in their series which shares a similar name. The son of Spanish Town said his foray into music initiated with sounds […]
Gramps Morgan‘s People Like You is an enchanting heartsong, curated to soothe disquiet and inspire hope across the globe, during a time that it is most needed. The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter told OAJ that the […]
“Loco, the guns coming in by the boatload…,” songwriter-deejay, Sasco, artfully introduces his latest single. Loco partly narrates unsavoury, ill-advised and generally destructive paths people choose to gain popularity. Sasco illustrates a cataclysmic ending, designed […]
Billboard chart mainstay Jamaican artiste Sean Paul got a little help from his friends to pull off a spirited Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2020 gig. The deejay, a couple of dancers, and his technical crew […]
Grammy award-winning Jamaican artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer headline a historic first in-person and, arguably, the most memorable (and glitch-free) staging of the wildly popular Swizz Beatz–Timbaland Verzuz series. More than 460,000 fans logged […]
The OAJ team caught up with Bronx-honed dancehall artiste HoodCelebrityy for 5 Questions With… The 20-odd-year-old Jamaican-born performer, who is currently signed to US recording label Epic Records, has been using the prolonged quarantine down […]
Local and international music fraternities are mourning the loss of revered Jamaican record-engineering maverick Robert Dixon, who is best known by his moniker ‘Bobby Digital’. Dixon began his foray into music production, in the Waterhouse […]
British supermodel Naomi Campbell recently posted the cover to the 50th anniversary issue of Essence, which bears her image. Just a regular day in the life of the ageless figure of beauty, right? No, not […]
Skip Marley etches his name into the history books with Slow Down – on which he is joined by R&B songbird and two-time Grammy award-winning musician, H.E.R. – by moving to the top of both […]
Episode 19 continues the reasoning with Canadian/Jamaican rapper, DJ, Producer and music executive Kardinal Offishall. In Part 2 Odessa and Kardi reason about Canadian hip hop as well what A&R projects he is working on […]
The aptly titled The ExPerience debut, from Jamaican singer-songwriter Lila Iké, is here. The EP is the first from In.Digg.Nation’s recently inked Six Course-RCA multi-project deal. Iké, along with mentor and In.Digg.Nation chief, Protoje, led […]
Perennial favourite and prolific hit-maker, Sean Paul, drops a new single and accompanying video for the track Back it Up Deh. The Grammy award-winning artiste released the Kieran Khan-directed visual spectacle to feed his ever-present […]
West Indies and Jamaica cricketer Chris ‘Universe Boss’ Gayle slammed Tallawahs’ CEO Jeff Miller and former West Indies teammate-turned assistant coach Ramnaresh Sarwan, after not being retained by the local franchise. The Jamaica Tallawahs assistant […]
Young Kenyan designer David Avido has been featured in Vogue for lending his artistry to provide free masks for the people in the village of Kibera, in Nairobi. The artist being raised in that low-socioeconomic […]
Diamond-selling and multiple-Grammy award-winning reggae artiste Shaggy was joined in a jam session by British pal Sting and The Last Bandoleros‘ Jerry Fuentes, to provide entertainment for people who are stuck indoors, for an In […]
Dancehall singer Dexta Daps has released new music after being freed from jail on April 30. The perfectly timed release, kudos PR team, targets his main demographic, women. On the track, the artiste encourages women […]
US-based Jamaican recording artiste Kranium participated in a fun stint on Elle.com‘s popular #SongAssociation online series. Before challenging the clock, he rated his chances at doing well, highly; he would eventually score 12 out of […]
Episode 18 of Reasonings With Odessa features Canadian / Jamaican rapper DJ, Producer and music executive Kardinal Offishall, this podcast was so good we had to do it in 2 parts. So check out […]
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