Etana the strong one
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- Etana the strong one
- Creative sector urged to widen its market
- Slain reggae star remembered
Etana the strong one
Jamaica Gleaner – Oct 28, 2007
Her life now involves a busy schedule of promotions and doing video shoots interspersed with shows in Europe the United States and most of the Caribbean islands. Her most amazing experience she says was in Ghana. “Reggae music in Africa is like food. In Ghana at the show the people were singing the music as if they know it already. When you sing a Bob Marley song in Africa the whole crowd sings it with you. “Her song Roots she says is an inspiration from her travels in this African country. She told her producer that she wanted the music to sound like a union of Africa and Jamaica.
Creative sector urged to widen its market
Jamaica Gleaner – Oct 28, 2007
And what we really should be looking at is how we can make more money and not concentrate so much on what we are bringing in now because there is a vast amount of money still left out there to be made. How much it actually brings in is different from how much it is actually worth as worth has to do with potential” he adds. International trendMcKenzie explains that “the problem is we don’t consume music like how the rest of the world does. ur thing is more on live music so we go to concerts more than how we buy records. ” He says this now has become an international trend. “We just need to put the necessary infrastructure in place to make the money because the music is popular people love the music. It will take some good partnership between the public and the private sector” asserts McKenzie… Everyone agrees there is money to be made from the music industry. And studies have shown it to be a very lucrative foreign-exchange earner but what of its actual worth in dollars and cents?According to Stanbury “There is no precise economic data on the value of the local music industry. html” >More News.
Slain reggae star remembered
Jerusalem Post – Oct 28, 2007
Four men arrested in connection with the murder appeared briefly in court Tuesday. “I regard Lucky Dube as a national symbol.
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