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[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Miranda Collinge (Esquire) writes, “Fifty years after his breakthrough album, ‘Catch a Fire,’ Bob Marley is the latest megastar to receive the Hollywood biopic treatment, with a new film coming to cinemas in January. An enduring symbol of youthful idealism, a style icon…

Fifty years after his breakthrough album, “Catch a Fire”, Bob Marley is the latest megastar to receive the Hollywood biopic treatment, with a new film coming to cinemas in January. An enduring symbol of youthful idealism, a style icon and a songwriter whose music still resonates decades after his death, Marley’s flame continues to burn. For Esquire, photographer Kate Simon looks back on her years capturing the reggae legend and his associates, on stage and off

'Nyahbinghi Celebration For Bongo Joe', an event marking the work of percussionist Eric "Bongo Joe" McDonald, is scheduled for November 18 at Cyprus Hall in Belvedere, Red Hills, St Andrew. T...

Celebrating the ‘History, Culture and Music of the Rastafarians in Ethiopia’  Zela Gayle   It was the legendary spirit of Bob Marley that magnifi

James Samuels James Samuels, bass vocalist of The Aces who sang on Desmond Dekker's Israelites and 007 (Shanty Town), died on January 29 at age 78. He passed away at the St Ann's Bay Hospital fro...

Barbara Gloudon The veteran broadcaster and theatre legend died at the University Hospital of the West Indies May 11. She was 87. She wrote the radio drama Wrong Move, which aired on Radio Jamaic...

EUPERT "Ras Kidus" McFarlane, a stalwart of San Francisco's reggae scene for 40 years, died in that city on November 27 at age 74. His wife, Steffi, told the Jamaica Observer that he succumbed to ...

WHILE working as a journalist in the newsrooms at Irie FM and the North Coast Times Andre Hinds-Allen would write songs in his spare time. At some point he had to make a choice between covering or...

If UMNO was hoping to avoid constant reminders of its criminal connections and the global 1MDB scandal during GE15 then maybe November was not such a clever time to call it after all? The celebrity trial of the year is due to set off the fireworks on November 5th in Hollywood. If that was not in the UMNO PM's diary then someone slipped up.....

The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 47th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. THE history of Jama...