Richie Stephens debuts music video via WorldStarHipHop website

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Richie Stephens in a scene from the ‘Everybody Dancing’ video.

Richie Stephens highly anticipated music video for the single Everybody Dance, will have its world premier on the popular WorldStarHipHop.com web site on Friday.

“I feel blessed to have the world premier of the video on an international platform like WorldStarHipHop,” an elated Stephens gushed. “This is a historic moment in my career and I am truly excited.”

Stephens chose to go in a new musical direction with Everybody Dance, which was recorded on the new Ska Teck Ova rhythm which fuses ska, which originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and electronic dance music which pop acts like Rihanna and Lady Gaga have incorporated in their songs.

The video features more than 40 dancers of all ethnicities and Stephens will make his international debut as a dancer.

“I have been practicing some exciting new dance moves that I will unleash for the first time in Everybody Dance,” he said.

For the music video he worked with director Anthony Slaney and Jamaica‘s most experienced cinematographer Chris Browne. Browne is best known as director of Third World Cop and has worked on such Jamaican feature films as Dancehall Queen, One Love, Ghett A Life, KLA$H and several international productions that were filmed in Jamaica.

On October 11, Stephens is set to join international acts Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, Dru Hill, Silk, Jeffrey Osborne, Peabo Bryson, Regina Belle, Freddie Jackson, Howard Hewitt and LUST at the inaugural Soul In The Sun concert which take place at the Aqueduct in Rose Hall, Montego Bay.

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Website claims ...Management team unaware of incident

Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter

News reports out of Zimbabwe say dancehall artiste Kalado got a rude awakening during his debut tour of the African nation when several missiles were flung from all directions during his set last Saturday at the Old Hararians Sports Club.

Despite his songs receiving airplay on stations in that country and on the clubbing scene, his performance was lacklustre, reports www.newsday.co.zw.

In addition, the news website reports that the artiste’s performance was reduced to some pornographic show when he got up close and personal with local female dancers one after the other.

The website also claims that the artiste believes that patrons hurling missiles in his direction was an appreciation of his performance quoting him as being impressed by the crowd.

“It was my first time performing in Zimbabwe and I was impressed by the crowd. On the cans, I thought it was a form of appreciation since I don’t understand the Zimbabwean language,” Kalado said.

NewsDay continued that the artiste was not affected by the behaviour of Zimbabwean fans and if invited again he would return for a second show.

A disc jockey rushing to Kalado’s defence says the Zimbabweans should be patient with foreign acts. He also said that while dancing with the girls would have been acceptable elsewhere, the environment in Zimbabwe would not have called for that kind of behaviour.

Publicist for the artiste, Ray Alexander, when contacted, said the artiste being bottled was news to him. He therefore could not deny or confirm that he had been bottled.

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Website lists Life and Debt tops

BY RICHARD JOHNSON Observer senior reporter johnsonr@jamaicaobserver.com

Sunday, February 02, 2014    

THE American website atlantablackstar.com has compiled its list of the top nine Jamaican films, with Life and Debt by American Stephanie Black, topping the list.

The 2001 documentary, which examines the impact of globalisation on Jamaican manufacturers and farmers, beat Perry Henzell’s classic 1972 film, The Harder they Come and Storm Saulter’s Better Mus’ Come.

Black told Splash that although she is appreciative, there are reservations.

“The Harder They Come remains the number one Jamaican movie of all time,” she stated. “However sadly, Life and Debt is still all too relevant not only in Jamaica but throughout the world, as the economic imbalance of the fundamental principles of globalisation are the accepted norm,” she continued.

Starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come — a drama co-written by Henzell and Trevor Rhone — took second spot.

In third is Third World Cop the 1999 flick starring Paul Campbell, directed by Chris Browne and produced by Chris Blackwell of Island Jamaica Films.

Dancehall Queen, starring Audrey Reid as a street vendor struggling to raise two daughters, took fourth spot, with 1978′s Rockers by Theodoros Bafaloukos in fifth place.

Shottas, which starred Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz, was sixth followed by Smile Orange and the Kevin MacDonald-directed documentary Marley in eighth.

Saulter’s Better Mus’ Come — a love story set in the political turmoil of 1970s Jamaica, rounded out the list.

Black first came to local attention with her documentary H2 Worker, which examined the plight of Jamaican farm workers. She says she is working on two documentaries similar to Life and Debt.

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