Caribbean Music
After rolling her way to the top of charts all over the world with the trail blazing single, ‘roll it gal’ and the sizzling video that accompanied the track, Alison is doing it again! The queen of soca recently released two new videos for tracks from her album Soca Queen. It has been approximately two […]
Why Jamaica Should Make Bob Marley A National Hero It’s been almost 27 years since the death of Bob Marley, yet despite previous appeals by the Marley Family and a host of posthumous awards Jamaica still refuses to accord the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley national hero status, the country’s highest honour. Even when Bob was […]
Umalali The Garifuna Women’s Project presents the hidden voices of Garifuna women to the world Bearing the Stories of Their People in Songs of Joy, Sorrow, Strength and Beauty Umalali The Garifuna Women’s Project is an album overflowing with stories. There is the story of how it was made: a ten-year labour of love that […]
A great loss to Garifuna culture Dear all: We are heartbroken to report that Andy Palacio passed away on January 19th at 9pm Belize time. The cause of death was a massive and extensive stroke to the brain, a heart attack and respiratory failure due to the previous two conditions. After having been waylaid in […]
Unheard Voices: The Rise of Steelband and Calypso in the Caribbean and North America by A. Myrna Nurse The first scholarly work that offers a description of how the Steelband movement, which originated in Trinidad, West Indies. Unheard Voices will surely delight as well as inform you on facts about the movement revealed for the […]