The Beat goes on: Caribbean Beat turns 25
Caribbean Beat marks its 25th anniversary In early 1992, passengers boarding BWIA planes across the Caribbean, South and North America, and...
Wyclef Jean: Haitian sensation
He may be a multi-millionaire hip hop star, but soaring high on the international popularity scale has not made Wyclef Jean forget his...
Rihanna: “I try to remain true to who I am”
I was in Barbados, living a normal life, going to school at Combermere Secondary School, when I was discovered. A record producer from New...
Rihanna: just getting started
Bajan R&B artist Rihanna first showed up on the Caribbean Beat radar back in 2005. At the age of sixteen, she’d just signed with Def...
Hot Shots: Barbados’ Cover Drive
Take four Bajan teenagers, stir in pop music, instruments, and a dose of island energy, and you’d be lucky to come up with the compelling...
CD Reviews (September/October 2011)
Loud Rihanna Rihanna is not the Beyoncé lookalike we met four albums ago. She’s not a soundalike, either. In fact it’s hard to put the...
