What’s going on in 2019?
Forever postage stamps commemorating the life of music
icons; Marvin Gaye and Gregory Hines.
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For starters Rhythm & Blues
singer Marvin Gaye who asked
the musical query in a song
titled “What’s Going On?”
will be getting his own Forever
postage stamp this year.
According to the United States
Postal Service, a commemorative
Forever stamp will be
introduced with his image to be
added to the music icon series.
Gaye who was born in 1939
died in 1984 after a domestic
dispute involving his father
who shot and killed him.
Acclaimed as the “Prince
of Soul” Gaye recorded love
songs and during the Vietnam
War released a sociological and
quizzical hit about the war asking
“What’s Going On?”
Actor / dancer / singer Gregory
Hines will also be immortalized
with a Forever postage
stamp.
His commemorative stamp
will be the 42nd of the Black
Heritage series.
Hines died at age 57 in
2003.
OSCARS UP FOR
GRABS
Feb. 24 is the anticipated
date movie fans will be able
to see and hear how voting
members of the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
(AMPAS) cast their ballots
when deciding the best actors
and best pictures of 2018.
Particularly interesting will
be the winners (and losers)
in “Black Panther,” the most
diverse Hollywood blockbuster
in history.
Although a winner at the boxoffice,
the film which featured
many Caribbean nationals is up
against crowd-pleasers “A Star
Is Born,” a revival production
which starred pop singer Lady
GaGa and Bradley Cooper.
In addition to acting, Cooper
also directed the hit movie.
Sunday, Lady Gaga won the
prize in the best actress category
at the Golden Globes
awards.
“Black Panther” must also
beat recent Globe winners
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Green
Book,” “Roma,” “Blackkklansman,”
“First Man,” “If Beale
Street Could Talk,” “Vice,”
“Mary Poppins” and others in
order to impact a revolution
for diversity within the film
industry.
DEPORTES
HEADLINES
One of Buju Banton’s biggest
hits was titled “Deportes.”
The song decried immigrants
who returned to his
island without making a contribution.
Now it seems, as a deportee
himself he is about to make
a major contribution after
returning to Jamaica.
Three months after his
return, the capital city of Kingston
may get a boost in tourism
from visitors when music fans
are expected to flock the island
to bear witness to his first live
concert appearance.
Mark Myrie AKA Buju Banton
is slated for an appearance
there to headline at the National
Stadium on March 16.
“Long Walk to Freedom” is
the title and maybe he will
render the telling track about
immigrants.
The concert also kicks off
a tour which has been booked
into Trinidad & Tobago, St.
Kitts, and other non-US territories.
IRAWMA TO MAKE 4th
OUTING TO THE ROCK
Also announced as a major
allure to the island’s tourism
industry, the 37th annual
International Reggae & World
Music Awards slates May 11
as the date to showcase and
honor Third World music often
ignored by commercial media.
According to Ephraim
Martin, the founder of the
honors, IRAWMA fills a void
overlooked when international
music awards pay tribute
to entertainment achievers.
Since establishing the
Inside Life
By Vinette K. Pryce
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