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Singer Tami Chynn has logged her first entry on any Billboard singles chart. "Frozen", her duet with hip hop star Akon has jumped from number 16 to number 11 on Billboard-s Dance Music Club Play listing. The track is also burning up dance radio, as it hops to number 20 on Billboard-s Dance Music Airplay tally.
She is signed to Akon's Kon-Live Label which is distributed by Universal Music's Geffen. Guess its a fruitful relationship seeing as she just scored a Pepsi commercial , which also features Akon's vocals. She will be going on tour with New Kids On The Blockm and Natasha Bedingfield.
Look out for her new album Prima Dona set for release in early 2009
MySpace MyAds program is available to the public. One group MySpace is aggressively targeting the service towards is bands, which will be able to create their own banner ads and then select which MySpace users will see the ads based on the users' listed interests. So far there are roughly 1100 categories of interests, ranging from hip-hop to rock to tattooing. There is a $25 minimum per campaign with advertisers bidding against one another for top placement in categories.
The service was available to large brands since last year and from three months ago via private beta to a small group of users.
Now all users can take advantage of MySpace Ads. Links in ads will be able to go to non-MySpace pages in addition to MySpace pages, an addition that was not in the original code. Users of the service will receive data such as hour-by-hour traffic figures. Uploaded ads will be screened for content before being posted to the site.
A definite qay to promote yourself...Take advantage hear!!!!!
VH1 Soul and Black Girls Rock Inc! (founded by DJ Beverly Bond) Pay Tribute to: Iman* Erykah Badu * Pam Grier * Estelle * Nicole Paultre-Bell * and many more..... at the 2008 3rd Annual Black Girls Rock! Award.
The event co-hosted by Regina King and Taraji P. Henson will take place on Sunday November 2nd at the Allen Room at JAZZ at Lincoln Center in NYC.
Here the award categories:
Becoming Legendary Award--April Holmes (paralympian)
Who Got Next! Award--Estelle (singer)
Shot Caller Award--Bethann Hardison (activist/fashionista)
Living Legend Award--Pam Grier (actress)
Social Humanitarian Award--Iman (model, global ambassador)
Rock Star Award--Erykah Badu (singer)
Community Service Award--Rachel Lloyd (founder of G.E.M.S)
Monument Award--Nicole Paultre-Bell and Valerie Bell
Keynote Speaker --Susan L. Taylor former Editorial Director of Essence Magazine.
Presenters and Performers include: BGR! Award recipients Tracy Reese and Sylvia Rhone, Floetry's Marsha Ambrosius, Universal Motown's Ashanti and Ryan Leslie, super model Veronica Webb, Star Trak recording artist Teyana Taylor and many more
for more info go to www.blackgirlsrockinc.com/awards
Go to www.numusiczone.com to check out Triple Kay Band’s new album Colors. I went to their band launch on October 4th and man o man was I impressed! Fete run from 11pm to 6:30 in de morning. MFR (Music For Real) Band was off the chain-extremely entertaining. Peter Ram definitely took care of the ladies. Dwayne Stephenson got maaaadddd love. Imagine when he started singing August Town he left the stage and the crowd sang de chuune, allu. I missed Caribbean Vibes but they are a great reggae band. Klockerz Crew had a mini reunion Dice, Skinny, Clint, Benji did their thing. It was pure niceness. So all these Dominican artists have music on this site so go there and check ‘em out!!!!
Check out the new riddim from Itation Records.
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It's called the 'World go Round' riddm and was made by Tune in Crew Artists lending their vocals to the track are Pressure (“Ganja Makes the World go Round”), Sizzla (“Goodness”), Delly Ranx (“Wish Good”), Turbulence, Jah Mason ( "My Queen”), Chezidek (“The Way You Live”) Kali Blaxx (“Free Up your Mind”) Niyorah (“No Pain, No Gain”), andMeru Matu (“Truth order and Unity”).
This is the third Riddim for the label. The previous two were the Higher Meditation Riddim in 2007 and Show Love Riddim earlier this year.
Itation Records
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Gyptians new album I can Feel Your Pain is coming out on October 21st. It features the title track “I Can Feel Your Pain” on the Cloud Nine Riddim. Other songs include . ‘Nobody No Cry’, ‘World is Caving In’ and ‘Where’s my baby’.
I know I already posted this video before when it just came out, but it's so nice, Imma do it twice! Enjoy
On Saturday October 18 soca's biggest and best will fill the Mariott events center in St Kitts for the 6th annual International Soca Awards.
Performers include Harella Tizzy & El A Kru, Crazy, Ricky T, Zoelah, Jamesy P, Nu Vybes Band Shal Marshall, Kerwin Dubois and Patrice Roberts.
The ISA will be hosted by DJ G.Cue of Winn FM and Suzanne Coy of CBC’s Heartland and Global’s ‘Da Kink In My Hair’
www.socaawards.com
(photo from Gramps MySpace page. Dis picture real sexy, don't it?)
Morgan Heritage (MH) has canceled their European leg of their world tour due to an injury sustained by band.family member Gramps. The tour which was to run from November to mid December was to promote their latest album Mission in Progress.
On the bright side, it does give them a chance to be home and with family. The band will do some shows in the region while he heals.
If he heals in time Gramps will join the band for their African tour starting in Sierra Leone in the middle of December. The tour is also scheduled to be going to Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal and Gambia," Morgan Heritage stated.
If you wanna leave him a comment go to thie rmyspace page
“Live Your Life” is the fifth No. 1 for Rihanna, moving her up on the list of the solo female artists with the most No. 1s on the Hot 100:
Mariah Carey (18)
Madonna (12)
Whitney Houston (11)
Janet Jackson (10)
Diana Ross (6)
Paula Abdul (6)
Barbra Streisand (5)
Olivia Newton-John (5)
Rihanna (5)
Here is a shot of her performing the song at T.I's MySpace Album Release Party at Key Club in Hollywood, CA. 
Rihanna’s previous four chart toppers were “Disturbia”, “Take A Bow”, “Umbrella” and “SOS”.
While T.I. owns the two biggest leaps to No. 1, Rihanna has four of the top nine biggest jumps to pole position:
80-1: “Live Your Life,” T.I. featuring Rihanna (Oct. 18, 2008)
53-1: “Take a Bow,” Rihanna (May 24, 2008)
41-1: “Umbrella,” Rihanna featuring Jay-Z (June 9, 2007)
34-1: “SOS,” Rihanna (May 13, 2006)
Congratulations Rihanna, on this astounding achievement!
Source: Billboard.com
BTW she is currently working on her 4th, yet to be titled album.
Seems she wants to go more into the punk rock realm so it will be more "Disturbia" and less "Take a Bow"…I just hope she maintains and keeps a couple reggae tracks like she usually does
Winter's almost heeeerrrreee!!!! Check out these ladies keeping fashionably warm.....
Alicia Keys is wurrking it in NYC!!
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Here's Naomi Campbell in Paris
Idris Alba is so bringing the heat!
Here he is with Thandie Newton at the RocknRolla Premiere in L.A
Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon post twins, was there too....
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Beyonce definitely did not have to worry about keeping warm at the recently concluded Bermuda Music Festival.
Can you believe people were straining to see a pregnancy bump...Helleerrreee (that's how Madea says it) she is wearing a babydoll...where u going and see bump.
Beyonce photos byHelen Jardine
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Formula one racer Lewis Hamilton is soon to be investing in the land of his father, Grenada. Well considering that he’s out 35 million for purchasing the Grenada Grand Beach Resort, I guess the investing has commenced. The government also gave him the land under the building worth an estimated 15 million dollars. In exchange for using his image and name for the next four years to promote tourisim.
I am really feeling Althea Hewits new video. She recently launched her album at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel . A former member of the group, Fourth Street Sister, she is now a solo act under the VP Records Label. This 15 track album is the first of three she will create under her deal with them.
Also launching his album (his fifth) at the same venue was Tony Green with his Midnight Blues.
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Best Of Shaggy:The Boombastic Collection came out on the Hip-O records label (it’s part of Universal Music Group). On the record you will find the tunes that made him not only a household name, but the most successful commercial crossover reggae artist to dat. Boombastic in 1995 earned him a Grammy for Best Reggae Album, with it he also became the first artist to top the Billboard 200 album chart. He had a diamond album with Hotshot in 2000. Currently he is promoting his most recent album Intoxication.
Skinny Banton has his Clockerz Krew, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Buju has his Gargamel Sound Bounty Killa running Alliance and Maka Diamond is joining the mix with her crew Galliance.
Apart form Maka members include Lady G, Queen Paula, Black Queen and Champagne,
She says"It is a group of friends who have come together for the advancement of female artistes as a collective in the business. We realize that the selectors are not playing the women deejays in the dance, so we felt that if we organised as a force, maybe it would change their attitudes towards females,"
Gwan Gyal...
So Beenie Man had to perform at a government-sponsored event honoring the Jamaican athletes who represented at Bejing. My boy Moses, not only was late, he got there when the show was over. I wish I could have been a fly inside is car...was he tripping? did he really give a damn? was he hustling the driver to put his foot on it????I mean what???????? of course his publicist, Ray Alexander, had to do damage control stating that the artiste "unreservedly apologizes to the Ministry of Culture, the Olympians and all his fans for his late arrival at the official function to honor athletes at the Trelawny "These meetings took longer than anticipated and resulted in the artiste leaving Kingston way past the scheduled 3:00 pm departure time."
Ooh and on top of that there were some showers and ting, ray ray ray, rah rah rah....Like Eddi Murphy's Mom told the King in Coming to America: "Put a sock in it" Beenie....
this is not a first. How many times has he missed a court date (oh by the way that tax case was trhown out, allu know how I feel about that one read this ) and he's missed performances too...
So here's another quote for you Beenie as said by MFR Band out of Dominica "I see you moving your mouth but you ain't saying nuttin....blah-blah-blah-blahblahblahblah.
For the first time ever in its five year history Jamaica has a Digicel Rising Stars female champion.
Cameal Davies from the Kingston 14 community of Denham Town beat out the final man standing (men really since it’s a five member group) Kahlil. She beat them in all three performances on Sunday September 28th.
Judge Nadine Sutherland told her that she did not win because she is a woman but because she is the best.
Not only great on the stage, her accomplishments include being appointed head girl, student of the year and valedictorian of her graduating class in 2003. That same year, she received a scholarship to attend a summer programme at Kettering University in Michigan. She now goes on to represent Jamaica at the Regional leg of the competition in Barbados.
The Live Television shows will take place at St Gabrielles school in st Michael and starts at 6pm every Saturday with the grand finale on November 15th. Grand prize is $10,000.00 cash USD, a recording contract and a Sony Ericsson phone.
Congrats to the Model Icon TV series winners Shereena Clarke (Montego Bay) and Armando Campbell (Kingston). The show is the brainchild of Saint CEO Dewight Peters.
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Among the prizes were Motorola SLVR/RAZR phones from Digicel, Model Development Contract with Saint International (with an international photographer and stylist), editorial photo-shoot with Jamaque Magazine.
This is a great opportunity for exposure on the international market. Past winner Anastassia Beckford, the first female winner, went on to do editorial appearances in Spain for Ibiza Style, Lee's Fifth Avenue Fashion campaign, and is now signed to Y Models in Capetown South Africa where she starts her international career in November.
The search for Jamaica's next Model Icon starts this month.
Congrats by the way to the winner of Caribbean Model Search (organized by Pulse Models)
Male Face of the Caribbean - Andre Swaby
Jamaica Petite Fashion Model - Michaela Ramlal and
Jamaica Fashion Model - Shermonique Ivey, (she is 13 which has caused some controversy)
They have a reality series too, so one of 20 jamaican ladies will be CMS Reality Star. It will air on CVM TV Fidays at 9 PM
click here to check out the events photo gallery at watever.comWe here at The Lime just want to express our condolences to friends and family and fans of the following:
Constantine Basil Pryce (father of Rodney "Bounty Killa" Pryce)
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From all reports Bounty was close to his father so this loss is not an easy one. He died on October 9th in a Jamaican Hospital.
Selman Vincent Lewis-August 4, 1948- September 29, 2008
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Selman Vincent Lewis of Trinidad recently passed in Miami. He worked for the government of Trinidad in various Ministeries eventually landing in Miami to work with the Tourist Board. He created Mega Marketing in 1988, playing a pivotal role in marketing Miami to the Caribbean Diaspora. He was instrumental in the creation and the longevity of Miami’s annual Caribbean Carnival.. As CEO of Miami Carnival Inc he was at the helm of North America’s third largest Caribbean Carnival.
Selman is survived by his wife Janet, two sons Christopher and Adrian, daughter-in-law Jerry, grandchildren Kai and Terrick and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made payable to the Selman Lewis Memorial Scholarship Fund. Mail to Miami Carnival office at 18425 NW 2nd Ave, Suite 335, Miami, Fl 33169.
Aton Ellis September 1 1938-October 10 2008
Reggae Icon Alton Ellis, 64,finally succumbed to his battle against cancer at Hammersmith Hospital in London hospital last Friday night. He was cited as being the creator of Rock Steady in the Mid-1960s (along with keyboardist the late Jackie Mittoo). If you don't know his music then check out this song made ever more popular by Sean Paul and Sascha. Data him chune....Respekkk!
Ermine Brammwell AKA Cherry Green AKA Cherry Smith
She backed up the Wailers when Junior Braithwaite left the band in 1964. she recorded seven songs with the group for producer Clement "Coxone" Dodd's Studio One label.
She died on September 24th of a heart attack.
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