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December 7, 2009

Shaggy to Dubai, Long Time #1, Top 25 Reggae Albums of the Decade, Festival Kreol Mauritius, La Réunion, interviews and more Italian coverage

Shaggy to Dubai
Shaggy will perform at Chi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on December 17 16! The official Chi @ The Lodge Facebook has more info, as does Time Out Dubai.

Win tickets to Shaggy in Dubai
You can win tickets for Shaggy’s concert at Chi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on December 17 16 at Time Out Dubai, Mumtazz Dubai and Ahlan Live!

New collaboration: Bob Sinclar & Shaggy
Costi Ionita announced he’s collaborating with Sahara, Bob Sinclar and Shaggy. Article (in Romanian).

Shaggy on the charts: Hot Shot #1 reggae album of the decade and Long Time
Top 25 Reggae albums of the decade #1
Shaggy’s Hot Shot is the number 1 most successful reggae album of this decade! Two of Shaggy’s other albums are also on the list: Mr Lover Lover, The Best of Shaggy, part 1 is at number 4 and Lucky Day is at number 17 as well. Jamaica Observer.

Long Time #1 on the German Reggae Charts
Shaggy’s tune on the Street Bullies Riddim, Long Time, is the number one reggae song in Germany! Trend Charts: Deutsche Reggae Charts.

Shaggy at Festival Kreol in Mauritius live videos
Shaggy & crew performed at the Festival Kreol in Mauritius last weekend, here are the first live videos of the concert: Crowd Teaser and Feel the Rush and fireworks at the island of Mauritius!

Festival Kreol interview, review and photo
Grand Baie review and photo of Shaggy’s concert in Mauritius. Défi Media interviewed Shaggy before his performance at the Festival International Kreol at the island of Mauritius on December 5. Shaggy said he’s proud to perform at the festival and talks about his heritage, Mauritius, dancehall music and his responsibility towards the new generation of artists. More? Interview article.

Crowd Teaser: live concert video at the island of Mauritius

Shaggy at La Réunion
Antenne Réunion met up with Shaggy while he was at the island of La Réunion for a concert. Interview article and press conference video.Shaggy talks about his concerts at La Réunion and Mauritius, his new Jamaican single Never Let me Go feat. Tessanne Chin, being a “good boy” and his new collaboration with Bob Sinclar!

Shaggy at La Réunion press conference and interviews
Shaggy performed at the Ravine Saint-Leu the island of La Réunion last weekend. Clicanoo interviewed Shaggy. Interview article and interview video. Le Quotidien also has an interview article and a backstage video shout out by Shaggy!

Shaggy & Friends Channel on Flow
Jamaican telecommunications provider Flow and the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation launched a Shaggy & Friends channel, Shaggy & Friends TV, on FLOW 394. The channel will broadcast music videos of the artists who will perform at the Shaggy & Friends charity concert and show updates on the events leading up to the benefit concert.It will also broadcast scenes of last year’s charity concert and behind the screen clips of production meetings with sponsors, visits to the Hospital and much more. I Dancehall Reggae.

Shaggy interviews
Gully and Gaza, the music industry and parenting
Shaggy talks about his background, Gully and Gaza – this interview was held just before Vybz Kartel and Mavado ended the feud – as well as lyrics, making it in the music industry and parenting in the second part of the Jamaica Gleaner interview. Interview article. The first part of the interview is also online and has been linked before.

Shaggy interview about the Shaggy & Friends concert and Shaggy’s charity foundation
Shaggy talked to the Jamaica Observer TEENage about his involvement with the Bustamente Hospital for Children and the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation. Interview article.

Shaggy interview about traveling
Shaggy travels a lot for his concerts. The Jamaica Observer spoke to Shaggy about what he likes and dislikes about traveling and how he prepares for it. Interview Q&A article.

Italian concert photos and videos
Shaggy performed in Bari, Milan, Napoli and Venice last week. Here are photos and photo galleries of the concerts Venice (by Rasta Snob), Napoli (Kinky Klub), Milan (Antonio) and more (Stey)!

Venice and more Napoli concert video
Fucina Controvento has a video (Boombastic, Bonafide Girl, the crowd teaser and Big Up) of yesterday’s Shaggy, Rayvon and Groove Society Band show at the Fucina Controvento in Marghera, Venice. La Casa della Musica in Naples, Italy: Get Up, Stand Up and Fight and Fly High.

More Milan concert videos
More concert videos from Shaggy, Rayvon & band show at the Leoncavallo in Milan, Italy: Church Heathen, Bonafide Girl, Long Time, Oh Carolina part 1, Oh Carolina part 2, Wild 2Nite and Big Up, It Wasn’t Me Boombastic and part of the encore: Fly High as recorded backstage.

More Bari concert videos
A lot of good videos of the concert at the Demodè Club in Bari, Italy are online! You can watch them on the Bari 2009 videos page. A couple of them have been embedded below!

Long Time and Angel at the Demode Disco Club in Bari, Italy

Hear Dis, Boombastic, Bonafide Girl and Angel

Big Up, Hot Gal, Bashment Party, Wild 2Nite, Strength of a Woman and It Wasn’t Me

Herbs Come Around, Church Heathen, What’s Love and Feel the Rush

More videos from the concert in Bari

November 29, 2009

Shaggy in Milano, Italy live videos and photos

Milan concert videos
Shaggy performed at the Leoncavallo in Milan, Italy yesterday. Giulia Montecelli has photos of the show. Here are a lot of concert videos from the sell off concert, the ones without links are the videos you can watch below: Fly High, Hey Sexy Lady, What’s Love, I Can’t Fight this Feeling, Get Up, Stand Up and Fight, In the Summertime, Bonafide Girl and the Intro, Hear Dis and Boombastic!

I Can’t Fight this Feeling

Shaggy & Rayvon In the Summertime

Shaggy & Jaiden Bonafide Girl

More videos from further away: Fly High 2, It Wasn’t Me and Angel.

One more Napoli video
One more video of the Shaggy & crew concert at La Casa della Musica in Naples, Italy: Hey Sexy Lady!

Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation interview
What started as a visit with a friend’s sick child, has now evolved into the Shaggy & Friends concert. Read more about in the Jamaica Gleaner interview article with photo! Shaggy’s daughter Sydney is also in the photo with Shaggy, she’s so cute!

A video overview of the Shaggy, Rayvon & crew concert in Milan, Italy.

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November 25, 2009

Italian club tour, Dance 4 Climate Change Concert, Shaggy & Akon backstage, win tickets to Shaggy & Sean Paul in Hollywood

Shaggy in Italy
Shaggy’s official Myspace confirms the Italian tour dates! Here’s the list:

November 26 Demodè Club, Bari
November 27 La Casa della Musica, Naples
November 28 Leoncavallo, Milan
November 29 Fucina Controvento, Marghera, Venice

More info about these concerts and where to get tickets

Win tickets to Sean Paul & Shaggy live at Seminole Hard Rock Live Hollywood
93.9 MIA is offering a pair of tickets to see Sean Paul and Shaggy in concert at the Hard Rock Live Hollywood on December 11! You can win tickets here by entering your email address (or buy them from Ticketmaster).

More info about the Dance for Climate Change concert, Denmark
Water for Life Concerts has more info about the Dance for Climate Change concert on December 7 at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. Shaggy, Akon, Youssou N’Dour, Europe, The Dreams, Anggun, Angelique Kidjo, Cheb Khaled, Danseorkesteret, Rasmus Seebach, Nabiha and My Excellence will perform!

The concert takes place on December 7, which is the first day of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP15. At the COP15, world leaders will meet to discuss how to respond to climate change. Seal the Deal and the Dance for Climate Change concert try to broaden the support for a comprehensive global climate agreement. Do you agree with the cause? You can sign a petition on Seal the Deal 2009. Tickets to the concert are available at Billetlugen.

Chain of Hope charity
This week, medical volunteers from the Chain of Hope charity will perform heart surgeries for four days in the Bustamente Hospital in Jamaica on children who have had complex cardiac problems since they were born. Shaggy, who performed at the Chain of Hope fund raiser in the UK last week, spent last Sunday relaxing with the children and their parents ahead of the surgeries. That’s so nice! Jamaica Gleaner article.

Shaggy & Akon backstage making the video of What’s Love
DJ Kue recorded and uploaded footage of Shaggy and Akon talking backstage at the What’s Love video shoot!

Shaggy & Akon backstage at the What’s Love video shoot

Back to 2008 video: Summerjam medley
Here’s a tv video of Shaggy & crew live in concert at the Summerjam 2008 in Cologne, Germany.

Summerjam medley: More Woman, Boombastic and Love the reggae!

Another back to back video: (more…)

November 23, 2009

Interviews, charity event photos, movie trailer and Italian concert tour in November

Shaggy interview about Shaggy & Friends and new music
The Jamaica Observer talked to Shaggy about his upcoming Shaggy & Friends benefit concert and his latest music! Wanna know more? Here’s the interview article with photo.

Gleaner Honour Awards photos
For his charity work, Shaggy received the Gleaner Honour Award! Usain Bolt was awarded Gleaner Man of the Year Award for his achievements for the second year in a row. The Jamaica Gleaner has photos of the ceremony.

Chain of Hope
Shaggy performed at another charity event, the Chain of Hope fund raiser, last week at the Natural History Museum in London. The Jamaica Gleaner has a photo of the event, as does Celebrities Worldwide.

Gaborone concert photos
WeSSide Entertainment has a large photo gallery with photos of the Shaggy & crew concert in Gaborone, Botswana, earlier this year.

Couples Retreat trailer
Shaggy’s official UEFA EURO 2008 single Feel the Rush, which was a number one hit in Germany, is featured in the Couples Retreat movie trailer. You can watch the trailer right here.

Demodè Club, Bari, Italy concert commercial
Here’s a commercial for Shaggy’s I Wanna Fly High Party featuring Shaggy, Rayvon, Gibroltar Music, Golden Bass and High Grade at Demodè Club in Bari, Italy on November 26!

Shaggy’s commercial for the I Wanna Fly High Party in Bari, Italy on November 26

The party is presented by High Grade, you can listen to a dedicated Church Heathen dubplate on High Grade’s MySpace.

More info about Shaggy’s concert in Naples
Shaggy will perform at the Casa della Musica Federico 1‘s Kinky Klub in Naples on November 27. Kinky Jam’s official Facebook has more info.

Milan and Venice concert info
Shaggy, Rayvon, Golden Bass and the Groove Society Band will do a concert at the Leoncavallo in Milan on November 28. They will perform at Fucina Controvento, Malghera, Venice, Italy on November 29. You can get more info at the Fucina Controvento site.

More: Shaggy’s full 2009-2010 concert tour dates schedule as known so far

November 14, 2009

Classic 1992 Shaggy performance

Classic 1992 Shaggy performance
Wanna see a classic Shaggy video? Shaggy, Rayvon and Screechie Dan performed at the Pre-Labor Day West Indian Carnival Show at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City in 1992. In a first video of the show, that you can watch here, Shaggy and Rayvon sang Old Foot. In this video you can see Shaggy, Screechie Dan and Rayvon perform Mampie, Pose Off (Pum Pum Shorts) and Big Up! Enjoy!

1992 Shaggy, Rayvon and Screechie Dan Mampie, Pose Off and Big Up video by G.B.T.V.

The Scene interviews Shaggy
The Scene interviewed Shaggy about his music career and his aspirations. Interview article.

MTV Italy
MTV Italy writes about Shaggy’s upcoming tour dates in Italy:
November 26 Demodè Club, Bari
November 27 La Casa della Musica, Naples
November 28 Leoncavallo, Milan
November 29 Shaggy and Rayvon at Fucina Controvento, Marghera, Venice

November 5, 2009

Shaggy & Friends Dare to Care continues, Save a Life live, Glow Club photos, Shaggy to Italy

Shaggy and Friends I Dare You 2009 and 2010 videos
Shaggy organized a benefit concert for the Bustamente Hospital for Children in 2009. In 2010, a new Shaggy & Friends concert in benefit of the children’s hospital will be organized! More info.

Here are two new videos for the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation, courtesy of DJ Kue. One has live footage from the Shaggy & Friends 2009 charity concert! The other video is a PSA for the Shaggy & Friends 2010 Dare to Care concert and the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation, his charity in benefit of the Bustamente Hospital for Children!

Shaggy & Friends concert footage 2009 Save a Life
Shaggy, Elephant Man, Tesanne Chin, Etana, Sean Paul, Lady Saw, Macy Gray, Marcia Griffiths, Luciano, Freddie McGregor, Gramps Morgan, Tony Rebel, Rayvon, Rik Rok, Christopher Martin and other artists sing Save a Life live on the Shaggy & Friends concert in 2009!

Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation Dare to Care 2010 PSA

Glow Club photos
Shaggy, Rayvon and DJ Kue performed at the Glow Club in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Saturday October 31. Before that, they visited The Box club in St. Gallen (photos). Here’s a photo gallery of the performance at the Glow Club! Looking pretty cool, right?

Laut und Spitz also has a three pages photo gallery of Shaggy’s and Rayvon’s performance at Glow Club, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Photos on page 7-9.

Shaggy to Italy
It looks like Shaggy will perform in Italy this month!

Shaggy, Rayvon, Gibraltar Music (this is Shaggy’s tour manager Paul “Rossi” Lee, I guess, Shaggy started out as a dj on this sound system!), Golden Bass and High Grade will perform at the Demodè Disco Club in Bari on November 26.

Shaggy will play Teatro Palapartenope / Casa della Musica in Napoli, Italy on November 27, according to Go2 and Campania Tickets, as well as Rastasnob.

Shaggy, Rayvon, Golden Bass and the Groove Society Band will do a concert at the Leoncavallo in Milan on November 28.

Shaggy, Rayvon and band will perform at Fucina Controvento, Malghera, Venice, Italy on November 29! You can get more info at the source: the official Fucina Controvento site.

Update: These concerts have been confirmed on Shaggy’s MySpace!

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