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The 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony is two days away, to be held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, California.
In the Best Reggae Album category,Buju Banton, Gregory Isaacs, Julian Marley, Stephen Marley, and Sean Paul.
Who will win?
Update:The winner in the Best Reggae Album category for the 2010 Grammy Awards is Stephen Marley for the album Mind Control on the Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong Label.
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Stephen 'Di Genius' MacGregor
The next time you are in the club winin’ and grindin’ to a hot dancehall tune chances are the man behind it is one of dancehall’s hottest and youngest producer, Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor, son of veteran reggae great Freddie McGregor.
Since the age of 12, Di Genius now 19, has been making hit riddims after hit riddims collaborating with artists such as Elephant Man, Bounty Killer, Mavado, Vybz Kartel and Sean Paul, to name a few. Di Genius also demonstrated his versatility by working with American Hasidic Jew reggae artist Matisyahu on his Life album.
Recycled riddims of the 60’s and 70’s once dominated the dancehall scene, thanks to fresh new producers like Di Genius, dancehall will revive itself and appeal to a more wider audience while keeping its Jamaican roots.
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The 2009 Soul Train Music Awards will, for the first time since it began in 1987, introduce a “Best Reggae Artist” category.
The Soul Train Music Awards is scheduled to take place on November 03, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. The show will air Sunday November 29, 2009 on both the BET and CENTRIC (formerly BET J) cable channels at 9:00PM ET.
The nominees for the “Best Reggae Artist” category are:
The nominations were announced in October 2009. Check your local Cable or Satelite listings.
Update (11/04/2009): Sean Paul named winner in the “Best Reggae Artist” category at the ‘CENTRIC PRESENTS: 2009 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS.’
Photo:allseanpaul.com
The show was taped last night (Wednesday, November 03, 209) and is set to air Sunday, November 29, 2009 on both the BET and CENTRIC (formerly BET J) cable channels at 9:00PM ET.
Yasmine Peru
jamaicaobserver.com
Irie Jamboree 2009 will surely go down in history as the show that Sean Paul took. The platinum-selling artiste took it to a new level of boring and started the trickle out of the York College venue in Queens, New York on Sunday. It is amazing how an artiste who goes on stage with all the right ingredients for success – big hit tunes, wicked backing band, healthy body dancers and two hype men – could have fared so badly. Hit song after hit song, there was still zero connect between Sean and the audience during his close to 30 minutes on stage. Read more…
Michael Brunton
time.com
In the steamy dancehalls of northwest Jamaica in the 1950s, Lee “Scratch” Perry was a teenager fresh from the sugarcane fields, scooping up prizes with his energetic renditions of dances like the Yank and the Mashed Potato to the hottest boogie-woogie and R&B tracks newly washed in from the nearby U.S. Half a century later, the tide has turned — as it did in the ’60s and ’70s — and it’s the rhythms of the Jamaican dancehall that are now storming the U.S. (and European) charts. Leading the charge are young guns like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, who are bending America’s native hip-hop with new sounds. And so Perry — at 67 still the inspired lunatic-producer of reggae — finds himself in possession of his first Grammy (for last year’s album Jamaican E.T.), and encamped at London’s plush Royal Festival Hall, where his three-week stint as curator of the 11-year-old Meltdown festival kicked off on Sunday. Read more…
One Minute Spotlight:Busy Signal
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These artists are the new young faces of reggae/dancehall music and for reasons unknown they just do not get the push required to elevate their talent to that of other mainstream artists like those who have gone before them, Super Cat, Beenie Man, Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Sean Paul and now Mavado.
It begs the question whether the Jamaican reggae/dancehall scene is organized enough to facilitate artists development. More below the fold…