By Dylan Kerrigan and Kwame Laurence ● Issue 60 (March/April 2003)
Sean Paul, Marlon Samuels, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Giselle Salandy
When it comes to dancehall, 2002 belonged to the uptown Jamaican performer Sean Paul and his Dutty Cup Crew. With a historic recording deal...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 60 (March/April 2003)
What’s Fun & Fresh in the Caribbean This Month (Mar/Apr 2003)
On the Shelf Steeling beauty Renegades: The History of the Renegades Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago Kim Johnson; Helene Bellour...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
What’s Fun & Fresh in the Caribbean this Month
Another life Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Carlos Eire (Free Press, ISBN 0-7432-1965-1) Growing up in a wealthy...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
The Connoisseur’s Caribbean
Every true wine lover hopes to someday tour France’s Bordeaux region, or California’s Napa Valley. Opera mavens head to Milan for...
By David Katz ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Crossover Rhythms
Sean Paul and Busta Rhymes. Wycliffe Jean and Beres Hammond. Alison Hinds and Elephant Man. No Doubt and Bounty Killer. No Doubt and Lady...
Culture, Music, Arts, United Kingdom
By James Ferguson ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice
For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...
By Philip Sander and Dylan Kerrigan ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Movers & shakers (September/October 2003)
Banking on success Omari Banks’s arrival on the international cricket scene during Australia’s recent tour of the West Indies was...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Tommy Cowan: backstage king
The first time I met Tommy Cowan, I ended up in one of the Caribbean’s most notorious prisons. The year was 1976. I was in the middle of...