With past collaborations with artist such as Jay-Z and Wyclef Jean, Mavado is looking forward to working with some of the worlds most established musical acts as well as producers. Through this deal with Khaled he will have an unlimited access to the best of everything including radio. Undeniably Khaled has an ear for talent and hit music which Mavado wants to incorporate in his newly inspired music. One of Khaled's achievements include 2010 hit "All I Do is Win," with T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross and Snoop. This single even achieved heightened success through a remix with Sean "Diddy" Combs, Nicki Minaj, Jada Kiss, Fat Joe and Fabolous. Recently this year Khaled has released the smash single "I'm On One" featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne which has become a street anthem for all.

Recently the Gully God has recorded a street banger featuring fellow WTB artist rapper Ace Hood called "Emergency." Thursday night DJ Funkmaster Flex premiered the record on HOT 97 to positive reviews from people across the entire tri-state area. While a single sure to rise to the charts and a new music family in his corner Mavado is on the continued road to musical success. With his growth as an artist he will never forget his heritage and undoubtedly will bring Jamaica's presence with him wherever he goes. 
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Dancehall artiste Mavado is again being sought by the police.

This follows an attack on a man and his son in St. James Saturday night, July 23.

It is understood that the complainant parked his car along a section of the Belmont Road about 7:00 p.m. when Mavado, whose given name is David Brooks, and his friends drove up.

The artiste reportedly demanded that the man move his vehicle further down the road so they could pass and avoid a pothole.

But the man refused.

Members of his entourage then reportedly emerged from the vehicle and began attacking the man and his son with a machete.

The man reportedly received face, back and foot injuries.

His son was also reportedly injured.

He lost several of his teeth and also sustained injuries to his hand.

The matter was reported to the Anchovy Police and the injured man and his son were treated at hospital.

The police are asking Mavado and his entourage to report to the station.

The incident occurred less than 24 hours after the artiste performed at the annual Reggae Sumfest Show at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay.

Vado flys again...

People, Mavado swag tun up yah now. The Gully God get back him visa and fly go foreign and come back and the ting tun all di way up. We spy him uppa di studio Tuesday night and Vado have a entourage that bigger than the whole a Cassava Piece. Him can work a foreign now so the US dollars a go start stock and pile again. Artiste, you hot like Peppa

July 17, 2011:- There is definitely excitement in the air as the date draws near for the annual Red Label Wine International Dancehall Queen Contest 2011. The much anticipated contest will be held on July 30, 2011 at its usual home - Pier One in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Promoted by Big Head Promotions, the International Dancehall Queen Contest is the premier and only authentic dancing contest for dancehall queens from across the world.

Already the contestants have been chosen and with the event now numbered in days, the big question is: Who will wear the4 crown of Miss Red Label Wine International Dancehall Queen 2011?

Last year's show featured queens from Jamaica, Austria, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, England, Martinique, Trinidad, USA, Canada and France. The winner was 23-year-old Kristal Anderson from Falmouth, Trelawny.

She was crowned by 2009 winner Tavia Morris from Montego Bay, Jamaica.

The crown has been in Jamaica for two consecutive years, Will Jamaica be able to keep a grip on the coveted Dancehall Queen trophy for a third straight year?

The celebration of Fifty Years of Jamaican Music, incorporating The Wailers and The Skatalites

, will provide the soundtrack for a worldwide movement designed to develop and activate strategies to reclaim and take control of reggae music, while positioning it for the next Fifty Years.

Under the theme "Free Jah People With Music", Bunny Wailer's Solomonic Productions, in association with Talawa IndiGenius, will create the illuminating backdrop designed to inform and empower singers and players of reggae music, producers and its adherents.

 Simply entitled Jamaica Music 50, this movement aims to secure representation with the approval for reclaiming 

this great musical wealth and legacy presently qualified for public domain.  This approaching reality encourages and motivates the purpose, will, reason and challenge for Talawa to transform the past and present experience into a beneficial, progressive and prosperous future going into the next Fifty Years of Jamaica's music.

Talawa IndiGenius, spearheaded 

by Maxine Stowe and incorporating a team of qualified like minded creative professionals, is the qualified management capable of implementing this change.

As Bunny Wailer pointed out, "Jamaica's music 

surviving the first Fifty Years of its 

existence as an industry was only mainly due to the faith, devoted love, respect, hope and expectation that the freedom and liberty agitated for on behalf of the African oppressed people would be possible to achieve due to the constant pounding of Reggae Music,"

Members of the music fraternity have been reacting to the 10 year sentence handed down to Buju Banton on Thursday morning.

Gramps Morgan of Morgan Heritage fame who was at Thursday's hearing said the sentence although not the maximum penalty, will be challenging for the artiste.

 "The Lord was kind because it could have been worse, it could have been up to 25 years. It's still rough for any man to be away from their children for 10 years," he said.

And fellow artiste, Tony Rebel says the sentence should not be seen as the end for the reggae star's career.

 "It doesn't have to be a setback, you can use all the setbacks and go forward. He has enough time to meditate, reflect and to put things into perspective and he can always chart a path to the future,"

 "Prison doesn't have to be a setback, remember our first national hero went to prison; Mandela left from prison and became president, Malcom X, Martin Luther King a lot of great people went to prison. Prison was not made for dogs, nor rabbits nor cats it was for humans, so it's just for you to turn a negative into a positive and I hope he can do that," he said. 

In the meantime, Senior Lecturer of Reggae Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr. Donna Hope-Marquis says although Buju Banton's absence from the music scene will be a big blow to the industry, she hopes he can rise above this major setback.   

 "I believe that this is a really significant blow to the reggae and dancehall industries because Buju Banton has been an icon of both reggae and dancehall and has really held the flag high and for him to be convicted of drug related offences which means that the Jamaican music industry will have another kind of light shining on it, a negative light. I am really saddened at what happened to the Gargamel I can only hope and I know that he will use this leg of his journey to produce music," Dr. Hope-Marquis said.

Big Ship artiste Chino will feature as a judge and performer later this month as some lucky high-school student will get a chance to record a jingle for Freshhh Juices and take ho4me $50,000 cash.

Over the past year, Trade Winds through their Freshhh brand of drinks, embarked on a school tour that, among other things, was designed to unearth untapped talent. Students were encouraged to create a jingle that they would then perform before their fellow students and a group of independent judges who would then decide which ones were the best.

"All the best jingles were posted on Freshhh Juices' Facebook page Facebook.com/Drink Freshhh where people can hear them," said Kim Lee, marketing manager for Trade Winds. "The winner will be chosen at the end of this month - June 28 - before a live audience and a group of judges, including Chino."

Lee said the winner will get to record his/her jingle at Big Ship Studios and will be used in Freshhh's next campaign. The winner will also get a cash prize of $50,000.

Popular Jamaican Reggae artiste, Mark Myrie, more commonly known as Buju Banton received a 10-year sentence this morning in a Florida courtroom.

United States magistrate, James Moody handed down the ruling in the Sam M Gibbons US Court in Tampa, Florida within the last two hours. The internationally acclaimed artiste will now serve his time the FCI prison facility in Miami.

Buju calmly accepted the verdict in front of a packed courtroom which included members of the artiste's family, manager Traci McGregor and his close friend and fellow Reggae artiste, Wayne Wonder. Other artistes and friends such as Delly Ranks and Gramps Morgan attempted to enter the courtroom but were turned away due to the crowd & the fact Judge Moody had already been seated around quarter to 9am.

Buju was convicted this past February of conspiracy to organize a drug deal in a police controlled warehouse in Florida in December 2009. This followed a mistrial that occurred following the first trial proceedings in 2010 & also followed co-conspirators Ian Thomas and James Mack pleading guilty after being held for attempting to purchase cocaine from undercover law enforcement officials. American federal government officials based their case off video and wiretapping evidence which caught Buju tasting cocaine and talking about possible sales points. The gun related charge of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug offense against Buju was dropped.

The Broadcasting Commission is recommending that a range of fines, with a maximum $15 million, on persons found guilty of engaging in the illicit practice of payola.

Payola is defined as the practice of paying bribes, particularly to radio personalities, for airplay to the recordings of unknown artistes, as a means of giving them exposure.

These recordings often include songs deemed inappropriate for airplay.

Professor Hopeton Dunn, the Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission, who was speaking at the monthly meeting of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday (June 21), said imposition of the fines was among several recommendations the Commission made to the government, for enactment into law.

The other significant recommendation, he said, was updating the regulations governing the broadcast media, to give the Commission the power to impose the fines.

According to Dr. Dunn, this was, "something which we do not now have, and which would provide a kind of intermediary step, in terms of how we actually regulate the industry".

Professor Dunn said the information forthcoming to the Broadcasting Commission indicated that persons are paying or taking bribes amounting to as much as $350,000 to have their music played.

"It is with a heavy heart that we announce the tragic passing of Conroy Edwards AKA Connie, a close friend of Mavado.

"Mavado and Connie's family are asking for time to grieve in private and reporting to be respectful."

Not relying on solely older means of marketing his album Chino, singjay Chino McGregor hosted his own social media listening party at the Big Ship studios to get the buzz popping around the album's May 24 release.

Social networking sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com got a sneak peek from social media insiders from the listening party, as persons tweeted their views on the album, track by track. Last Wednesday night, popular twitter persons Toniann Lindo, Wayne Jones Jr, as well as Jamaicansmusic.com, Skkan Media Entertainment, Miss Jamaica Universe Yendi Phillipps, singer Denyque, Laden, Shema, Stephen McGregor and STAR of the Month Chino were all present to share in the excitement.

give-aways

The listening party was streamed live online as fans logged on to their computers to hear the songs, some of which have never been heard before. Representatives from Guinness were also present at the studio doing give-aways as Chino soon kicked off the night by giving a little introduction to each of the songs.

The album started off with known hits such as From Mawning and Protected as Chino commented, "this song is wid me and Di Genius, di baddest producer in dancehall and reggae music." The recently released I Am followed after which Yeah Yeah from the Pepper rhythm. Then it was on to the new songs such as Badness which Chino explained was recorded live at Tuff Gong Studios, and was a big hit with those present.

Another exclusive was God Nah Sleep as Chino explained, "This is probably one of my favourites if not my favourite from the album. It's a deeply story telling song, two verses, with two different (but) similar stories ... listen keenly to every single lyric." Another song which got a strong forward from persons at the listening party was My Soul which talks about persons selling their souls for fame.

More popular songs followed such as Ruff It Up, Before Dem Gone and another new song Driving Me Insanewhich features Denyque. Driving Me Insane has a Shabba-like sound, which Chino says he wanted to make the first release but was outvoted.

Judging by persons who followed the response on twitter www.twitter.com/jamaicastar and facebook, the social media listening party was a huge success. A pleased Chino reminded fans online that the album is available for pre-order on iTunes. 

Want to be a part of the launch of Chino's upcoming album?

The Big Ship artiste will be launching his album on Tuesday, May 24 at Devonshire, Devon House. To win two passes to the launch and a VIP table as the special guest to Chino's album launch, all you have to do is answer the following questions!

1) What is Chino's real name?

2) What are the titles of the two albums he released in Japan?

3) What is the name of his upcoming album?

4) What do you love most about Chino and his music?

Email your answers to: ChinoMay24@gmail.com!