Davina Henry and Sadeke Brooks, Staff Reporters

( L – R ) Busy Signal, Miss Kitty, Asafa Powell, Tommy Lee Sparta

While reflecting on the year that has ended, popular figures have been making resolutions and hope to stick to them for 2013.

Having had a rocky year, athlete Asafa Powell says he wants to achieve a lot more.

“I want to be the best that I can be in all areas of my life, give everything I set out to do 100 per cent, including not being so shy and showing more of my personality and fun side,” he told THE STAR.

Media personality Miss Kitty has been making her mark in the industry and plans to advance her career for this year.

expansion and growth

“More progress and more advancement in terms of career placements. I’m also looking overseas for expansion and growth,” she said.

“I want to be happier, because sometimes we get so caught up in work that we don’t remember to enjoy the simple things in life. I also want to be more Godly and spiritual. I’m also working on a new show for 2013.”

Meanwhile, Busy Signal, who spent six months in an overseas prison last year, says he wants “to value the time spent with family more.”

Tommy Lee Sparta is also thinking about his family, as he wants to “focus on productivity, spend more time in the studio in an attempt to build on international success so I can provide for my mom and five kids.”

However, producer Rvssian is more focused on his career and marketing his record label to a wider audience “from social media to television and the street and to push the Jamaican music world-wide and keep thinking positive.”

With no specific resolution in mind, singer D-Major says his aim is to “ensure I’m one of the soldiers who don’t compromise making quality music.”

Title: Dancehall’s angry nature hurting acceptance, says Beres

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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/Dancehall-s-angry-nature-hurting-acceptance–says-Beres

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Beres Hammond has made a career singing ballads like One Step Ahead and Come Back Home, positive songs that have made him one of reggae’s great hit makers. But he believes foreigners are becoming turned off contemporary Jamaican music because of its negative content.
“Wi always sound like wi quarrelling, it’s as if these artistes don’t have any bright days,” said Hammond. He has some advice for his younger colleagues.

“Try a smile an’ the world will smile with you.”
The 58 year-old Hammond blames dancehall’s angry nature for the precipitous fall of Jamaican music sales in the United States, the world’s largest market. Last year was especially dismal, with year-end figures from SoundScan showing no dancehall performer making an impact in that country.
SoundScan is the company that provides music sales data for major publications like Billboard.
Hammond told the Jamaica Observer he felt the disenchantment with new music out of Jamaica while on the road late last year promoting his double album, One Life, One Love, which was released jointly in November by VP Records and his Harmony House Records.
“People say these artistes are angry all the time. You are angry on record but at the same time your personal life is not that bitter because you are making good money, so why the anger?” he asked.
Hammond wrote the 20 songs on One Life, One Love which consists of lovers rock and message songs. While he broke through as a balladeer in the late 1970s with the Willie Lindo-produced Reggae Soul album, Hammond notes he has been writing ‘conscious’ songs since his days with progressive reggae band Zap-Pow early that decade.
It is lover’s rock, however, that has made Hammond a dancehall force. He teamed with Lindo again in the mid-1980s for the massive dance hit, What One Dance Can Do, and has not looked back.
He was one of the 1990s biggest stars, making hit records for producers like Donovan Germain (Tempted to Touch), Tappa Zukie (Putting Up Resistance) and Phillip ‘Fattis’ Burrell (Full Attention).
Hammond plans to continue promotion of One Life, One Love with US promotional dates in January.

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Title: Alissa and Shaba moggal from Philly

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Mi would like fi know if this is not har second child? Everyday she a complain how she miserable and sick everyday.. For the whole 9 months diss girl bawl and complain bout di poor baby.. Me wah know if she did really think har Karma was going to be pretty fi go breed fi di woman husband?? Di worst part about it is she a Carry dis baby by har self cause Shaba affi run home to Nikk every nite fi rubb fi har 4 months belly . Dwl Alissa I pray you no teckk eenn when di Mafia dem a sleep cause dawg nyam u suppa den.. Shabba no have shit and you no have piss ,,poor unuh.. Weh you ago do when Nikki pack up Shabba and move him to Georgia wid har?? It sticky pan unuh ..

P.S Nikkii a wah kinda repayment you a gi you mate?? No man di gal sick di whole nine months. Mi fraid a unuh.. So m we pray for all a y’all.

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