DJ Christopher ‘Jillionaire’ Leacock: “You have to give them a good time every night”
My thing is, I’ve just always kinda been a lucky fella, you know. As a kid I didn’t have enough money to buy albums — I was buying...
Christmas skanking: Caribbean music for the season
I’m not, I have to confess up front, a huge fan of traditional Christmas music. I’ve heard Bing Crosby sing “White Christmas” more...
Chutney Soca Succession
It’s fitting that the man who created soca music, by combining soul with calypso, was the one who also birthed chutney soca. Back in...
Landship Ahoy
A uniformed group of men, women, boys, and girls march out in straight-line formation, to the rhythms of the drums and flute of a tuk band....
Lights, Camera, Animals: Christopher and Leizelle Guinness
When the great American comedian W.C. Fields quipped that one should never work with children or animals, he likely had both his tongue in...
Nicolette Bethel: “In the theatre, you never know what’s gonna happen”
Theatre was all around me when I was growing up. Every place you went — church, school — had a performance component. My mother Keva...
Jamaica’s Backup Stars
It’s hardly surprising that Jamaica has produced more brilliant players of musical instruments — on a per capita basis, that is —...
Wild words: Trinidadian poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Although Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné prefers to dwell in realms of possibility, rather than concrete certainty, the following is absolutely...
