Jah9, powerful songstress and yogi put her full spectrum of experiences and skills on display as she tackled some very tough but key social issues. Issues that tie squarely into the themes of her upcoming album Note To Self, scheduled for release March 13th.
“If you are conscious of the ability of Jamaican music, especially if you have seen my show, to project things so people can think about them. That is the way people in Jamaica think also, we have a lot of conscious people in Jamaica that think highly about our music.”
Had a conversation with my mother one day and she was explaining to me how cultural important Marcia Griffiths is to the Jamaican music scene and in extension to Jamaican women.
“You have to think like a boxer. Dis man ya bigga dan you and stronga dan you but, unuh still in the same weight class. Weh yaw go do. Pick my punches. Im gonna jab here, and move, but I’m gonna make sure that every punch I throw does damage. So every song I drop, must be powerful. Can’t drop weak music.”
The Backayard team is especially happy to congratulate Koffee as she became the first female winner of the Reggae Grammy in addition to being one of the youngest to receive this honour. Being the people we are the team decided to try and to share our own personal views on what this accolade now means for the starlet and the Jamaican music in general.
Seven years later, Damian “Junior Gong” Marley returns to us in his first solo effort
Sanley Spence known to the Jamaican music fraternity as Sanley Cruz was born to his late dad Winston Spence former member of the group the Melodians famous for their debut single ‘Chatty Chatty Mouth’
It has been said that change is the only constant thing in life. So with
