Forward Home: André Tanker revisited By Judy Raymond | Issue 26 (July/August 1997) Keeping away from the limelight, he has been one of the Caribbean's best-kept musical secrets. But now, with a hugely successful CD, is he threatened with serious international fame? Judy Raymond meets musician André Tanker
Crossover Rhythms By David Katz | Issue 62 (July/August 2003) In music shops, on the radio, and round the clock on MTV, Jamaica’s hottest dancehall artistes have triumphantly broken into mainstream pop music, via energetic collaborations of hip-hop, and rock performers. David Katz considers this thriving trend, and talks to the cross over king himself, Sean Paul
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice By James Ferguson | Issue 62 (July/August 2003) For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James Ferguson finds it’s harder than he expected to pin down the elusive LKJ
Riddem & Rhyme: Byron Lee By Garry Steckles | Issue 62 (July/August 2003) Byron Lee’s been a major player in the Caribbean music business for nearly 50 years. Garry Steckles says it’s time to give him his due
Carifesta Six: Singing in the rain By Nazma Muller | Issue 16 (November/December 1995) The sixth Caribbean-wide arts festival - Carifesta - was held in Trinidad and Tobago back in August 1995. Journalist Nazma Muller joined the crowds
Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd: “Just working on the feel” By David Katz | Issue 63 (September/October 2003) Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd, Jamaica’s legendary reggae producer and founder of the venerable Studio One label, as interviewed by David Katz
Kwamé Ryan: Classical Rebel By Kathy Ann Waterman | Issue 63 (September/October 2003) In the high-strung world of classical music, the young Trinidadian conductor Kwamé Ryan has earned a reputation as a brilliant maverick.
Wake the world: hip-hop’s Caribbean roots By Garry Steckles | Issue 64 (November/December 2003) Garry Steckles reminds us that hip-hop, the genre that’s taken over the world of music, started right here in the Caribbean
