Kenny Phillips reimagines Wack Radio, streams shows online
Thursday 18 February 2021
Kenny Phillips, founder and CEO of Wack Radio 90.1FM. Phillips began the move from radio station programming to a streaming business after live audience performances were banned because of covid19 lockdown restrictions. - Mark Lyndersay
Typher was walking back and forth backstage. The veteran calypsonian, born Cuthbert Blackett, was thinking through his delivery of True Dignity, his calypso response to the late Singing Sandra s Sexy Employers.
The show was supposed to be a livestream of the 2021 Klassic Ruso tent experience, but had quickly evolved into a vibrant and sometimes emotional tribute to the oeuvre of Sandra Millington-Des Vignes.
Tributes continue to come in for Singing Sandra
Friday 29 January 2021
File photo: Sandra Des Vignes-Millington better known as Singing Sandra after she was presented with the award of recognition at the Women of Substance show held at Little Carib Theatre on Saturday night. - Vidya Thurab
Tributes continue to come in from many sectors honouring the contribution Sandra “Singing Sandra” Des Vignes Millington made to Trinidad and Tobago, the region and the world.
Singing Sandra died on January 28. She was 64. She won the Calypso Monarch contest in 1999 and 2003.
Regional media, including the Jamaica Observer and Nation News, Barbados, also recorded her passing.
King Jab Jab comes to Little Carib Theatre
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Paula Hamilton-Smith will portray the Midnight Robber in Brown Cotton Outreach s The Revenge of King Jab Jab on February 6 and 7 at the Little Carib Theatre in Woodbrook. - Photo courtesy Brown Cotton Outreach
Not-for-profit NGO Brown Cotton Outreach’s (BCO) presentation of The Revenge of King Jab Jab promises to deliver a Carnival theatre social satire on February 6 and 7.
The NGO will partner with the Little Carib Theatre and WACK90.1 to bring the theatre to live and virtual audiences.
In the play, King Jab and his cohorts from the Land of Mamaguy play mas with the Shakespearean tradition as they replace democracy with dictatorship by devising the most dastardly and ridiculous plans to create a new and improved Hell-On-Earth.
Entertainer, hairdresser, LGBT+ mentor Anthony Medina dies at 75
Anthony Medina -
Anthony Medina had an exuberant enjoyment of life. His joie de vivre was reflected in his love of theatre, dance, hairstyling and gender-bending performances. He died on Thursday at his Diego Martin home from prostate cancer at 75.
His brother Gregory Medina said eight years ago he had an enlarged prostate and had that treated. This year, Medina discovered he had prostate cancer.
“He stood a lot as a hairdresser. He got back pains. Eventually, he went to the hospital to check it out and found out the cancer spread though his body,” Gregory said,