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LONDON: William Joseph White, a pioneering Jamaican multi-genre star who died in London recently, was a man whose musical creations will live on. ‘Joe White’, as he was popularly called, was born on September 4, 1941, in Kingston, Jamaica, and...
Lover’s rock singer Gregory Isaacs was the coolest ruler reggae has ever seen, and long before swag was even a thing, he embodied swag in every fibre of his being. In demand for live appearance, Isaacs travelled the world, and on that journey...
From Christian rock to reggae via soul, Chris Lane’s latest column follows the strange journey of a slept-on Jamaican classic
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...
Magic Circle: Meet the Tayside and Fife magicians who still have a few tricks up their sleeve © Supplied by Kevin Quantum As magicians celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous ‘sawing people in half’ trick, Michael Alexander discovers that magic is alive and well in Tayside and Fife with a few tricks left up its sleeve yet. One hundred years ago last month, English magician Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously “sawed” through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman. It was a sensation that has since become one of the world’s best known illusions, performed with ...