She visited Sir Edward Elgar in 1918 and was promised the first performance of his piano concerto, then being sketched. Her technique was one of refinement rather than power. Her surviving recordings show her at her best in the smaller pieces of the romantic repertoire, where her impecc...
Makeda Silvera (born 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Caribbean Canadian novelist and short story writer. Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first ...
When the Museum of Modem Art in New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941, it was not well known, but it has since become one of van Gogh's most famous works.The HarvestersThe Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in ...
The result is a new style that was once described as 'wearable art" and since the 1980's her fashion business has bee a leader in the Aboriginal fashion industry. Her works and designs are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, were featured at the world EXPO 86 in ...
Bob Marley dreadlocks hairstyle. Photo by Bonita Jamaica. One of the most popular Ska and Reggae singers of all time, Bob Marley helped to introduce both these music genres and Rastafarianism to the world. He was born in Jamaica in 1945 and died in Miami, FL in 1961. Because he was a...
Churchill protested in private. Publicly, he only said that it was “a fine example of modern art”. His friends smiled: it was well-known that Sir Winston didn’t care for modern art. Churchill was so unhappy about the portrait that finally his wife had it destroyed. Churchill died at ...
Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica Died: July 1, 1999 Dennis Brown, a Jamaican reggae singer, started his career in the late 1960s at a young age. He recorded more than 75 albums and rose to fame in the lovers rock subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley considered Brown his favorite singer, dubbing ...
Legendary Run-D.M.C. DJ Jam Master Jay was murdered on October 30, 2002 after someone shot him in a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens.Though his murder remains unsolved, former NYPD detective Derrick Parker, also known as the Hip-Hop Cop, says he knows who killed Jam Master Jay and ...
Photo courtesy of Boston Jerk Center in Jamaica JERK CHICKEN (Jamaica) Jerk Chicken is a traditional dish you can find throughout much of the Caribbean, but in our experienceJamaicadefinitely does it best. The history of Jerk Chicken dates back to the 18th century, when the escaped former sla...
After Hornigold and Teach were voted out of command, Bellamy took a captured vessel as his own, before capturing a state-of-the-art slave trade ship, the Whydah Gally, in the early spring of 1717. Just two months later, however, the ship got caught in a nor'easter storm off the ...