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Only ten minutes before the competition, DJ Coolie was still tinkering. He didn’t think his set was good enough to take the title of Stoli Mix Off DJ Champion and he desperately wanted the win over DJ Flava, DJ Mystro, DJ Fresh Kidd and Mista Genius....

Sh has shared the stage with a leading R&B artist, is featured on a track with one of Bermuda’s rising stars and now Brittany Cox is ready to make her own mark on the music world. The singer/songwriter, who goes by the stage name Brixx, has been work...

A trio of musical brothers have launched a schools programme to help to keep Bermuda’s entertainment traditions alive. The Simons Brothers — Jonathan, 18, Solomon, 16 and Leo, 12 — aim to visit nine primary schools and kicked off at the Gilbert Insti...

Things are starting to take off for Bermuda’s musical trio The Simons Brothers, who have just released their first album. Breakthrough, the culmination of years of hard work and dedication by Jonathan, 18, Solomon, 16 and Leonardo, 12, was completed ...

In the wake of #MeToo, women are finally being portrayed as what they always have been — pillars of strength. It is fitting therefore that next year’s Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts should include a number of shows with strong female leads. ...

There is no short cut to fame, as Gianluca Gibbons and Hannah Eggen have found out. Five years into it, they are still trying to get their soul/pop band Heritage off the ground. A near-complete album with “multi-platinum record producer” Tommy Daugh...

Chris West and Deni Hlavinka were having a drink in a Boston bar when another couple caught their attention. From their nervous awkwardness, the musicians deduced they were on their first date. Now engaged, it took them back to the breathlessness of ...

Chaka Khan, the “Queen of Funk”, and Grammy-winning jazz vocal group The Manhattan Transfer will star at the 2019 Bermuda Festival. Festival executive director T.J. Armand said Chaka Khan, whose well-known hits include I’m Every Woman, was the perfec...

The “Queen of Soul” was a “mesmerising” artist who graced the stage in Bermuda just before she soared to international fame, an island musician said yesterday. Aretha Franklin, a multiple Grammy winner, died yesterday at her home in Detroit aged 76. ...

Drummer Troy Washington Sr auditioned to play at the 2017 America’s Cup thinking it might lead to fame and fortune. At the very least, he figured, it would be tons of fun. JESSIE MONIZ HARDY spoke with him about his experience Troy Washington Sr joi...

For a month last year, Jesse Seymour’s life was one long adrenalin rush as he sang lead in 4-Forty-1, the eight-member band of the America’s Cup. Then it was all over. “At that point, I asked myself, ‘What now?’” the 29-year-old said. The end of the...

His fans knew Paul Lennox was into rock so the tropical beat coming from his new band had them confused. The drummer gave everyone who asked about the switch the same answer. “My music is really inspired by the time I spent living in Bermuda,” said M...