Singer Bar-Bee, who was yesterday (Thursday) released from hospital, says as soon as she gets some rest, she will be returning to Jamaica. The singer spoke with THE STAR in a telephone interview shortly after her release from a private hospital in New York. "I got out of the hospital this morning (Friday), but they (doctors) were really concerned about the hit to my head on the windshield - but I'm okay now and happy to be out. The hardest […]
Singer Bar-bee is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a New York hospital after being involved in a motor vehicle accident on Friday. Bar-Bee was in a coma for two hours after the accident. Her Mercedes-Benz car was totalled. Reports are that the singer was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, being driven by a female friend, travelling along the Taconi Parkway en route to the Jamrock Reggae Fest at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NY, where she was […]
A MEMBER of Mavado's almost 30-strong entourage who travelled with the popular dancehall artiste to Saturday's Digicel Jamaica Derby at Caymanas Park is now behind bars after assaulting a policeman in the racetrack's official car park. Fans were ecstatic throughout the artiste's performance, some lighting newspapers in the stand on a day of record turnout at the racetrack in Portmore, St Catherine. However, it was while Mavado and his entourage were leaving the track that things got really heated. Reports […]
Self-proclaimed King of the Dancehall, Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis, has voiced his obvious dislike for members of the prestigious reggae clan, the Marleys. In a taped interview with radio personality Chris Goldfinger on the British-based radio station BBC Radio 1 (97-99 FM), Beenie Man spoke about an alleged run-in with Stephen Marley. The video of the interview is available on the Youtube website entitled Beenie Man Interview Exclusive Part 2. The feud between Beenie Man and the Marleys is reported […]
Doubt on Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III selling nearly a million in first week sales may cease as the New Orleans, Louisiana rapper's first-day sales have rounded out at about 423,000. According to Billboard, the album will easily gain the number one spot on the Top 200 charts and is still expected to sell between 850,000-950,000 at the end of the first week. As previously reported by, Tha Carter III may outsell both Mariah Carey and Usher's first week sales […]
A cross and angry Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Price spoke out for the first time about his recent European tour that saw three shows being cancelled ,allegedly because of gay activist groups. It was reported that gay human rights groups had coordinated a European-wide campaign to halt Bounty's Deadly Alliance tour of the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, England and Switzerland, and were successful in stopping concerts in Bradford and Birmingham, England, and another in Essen, Germany. Successful tour However, Bounty Killer […]
Fans of the self-proclaimed King of the Dancehall Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis will get the chance to read his life story in the forthcoming biography Who Am I? The Untold Story of Beenie Man. Written by Jamaican journalist Milton Wray, the sensational biography is scheduled for release in Jamaica in July, just in time for Reggae Sumfest. Wray spent 11 years documenting and researching the scandals and untold past of the popular figure in the more than 400-page biography. When […]
Having achieved so much in life and in his musical career, Rodney Price aka Bounty Killer says he is satisfied. "I can live with what I've got, I don't have no crave right now, I've filled all my craves so it's just long life and prosperity right now," Bounty told The STAR yesterday. Come June 12 this year, the self-proclaimed 'Grung God' will celebrate his 36th birthday and already he is taking a more mature outlook on life. "Musically mi […]
Miss Global Jamaica 2008 Jody-Ann Wallace (centre) is flanked by (from left) Jodane Russell, first runner-up, and second runner-up, Natasha Brown. - Photo by Denise Reid Even before the first-place winner was announced, the disappointment among members of the crowd that had gathered at the Kool Runnings Water Park for the 4th annual Miss Global Jamaica pageant was evident. It was third-place winner Natasha Brown, who had delivered a spell-binding talent piece and answered her question eloquently, that the crowd […]
It may seem as if Erup has fallen off the scene for a while, but having formed his own record label, 'Fully Governed Inc', producing new artistes, performing at various shows overseas and doing collaborations with the likes of Taurus Riley and Anthony B, his actions have proven otherwise. Erup says he has been touring in the United States and performing at a number of shows, the most recent being 'The Return Of Supercat' held at the Madison Square Gardens, […]
