Shaggy won the award for Best Dancehall Album for his newest album Intoxication on the International Reggae Academy Awards as well as the award for Best Dancehall Video for Church Heathen Remix video, produced by Jay Will, at the Reggae Academy Awards. Congratulations Shaggy!
Sources: United Reggae and Jamaica Gleaner
Church Heathen Remix video
Intoxication Best Dancehall Album at International Reggae Music Academy Awards
Sunday night the Reggae Academy Awards were held at the Indoor Sports Facility in Kingston, Jamaica. Shaggy won the award for the Best Dancehall Album for his latest studio album Intoxication. Congratulations Shaggy!
You can view a picture of Shaggy and Rik Rok at the Reggae Academy Awards here at Yard Flex.
Shaggy at EURO 2008 Party
The UEFA EURO Soccer 2008, for which Shaggy and the official mascots Trix & Flix made the single “Like A Super Star”, will take place from February 28 until June 7 2008. Shaggy will kick off the festivities at a EURO 2008 party in Bern, Switzerland, on Thursday.
Source: ARD.
The Negril Spring Break Jamfest 2008 will see Mr Lover Lover perform on March 17. You can get more info about Negril Spring Break and Jamfest on the Jam Fest 2008 official site which has finally opened.
Shaggy performed on Jamfest before and it was a hoooot show! Here’s a 25 minutes (280 MB) video of Shaggy, Rayvon, Brian & Tony Gold, Robert ‘Dubwise’ Browne, Michael Fletcher and Ninja Man thanks to Caribbean TV!! Enjoy!
Shaggy on Jamfest: Wild 2Nite, Hot Gal, Bashment Party, Boombastic, Hey Sexy Lady, Strength of a Woman, It Wasn’t Me, Angel and Church Heathen
It’s hot, it’s sexy, it’s different, it’s classy, it’s Shaggy’s new hit single, it’s on MySpace! You can watch this new video by Akon, Shaggy and Hype Williams from Shaggy’s latest studio album Intoxication right here!
Shaggy’s hot new video What’s Love will be shown to the world an exclusive on the MySpace front page tomorrow, Wednesday February 20, starting at 12 pm PST / 3 pm EST!
What’s Love is the third hit single after Church Heathen and Bonafide Girl from Shaggy’s latest VP/Big Yard studio album Intoxication and features none other than Akon. Shaggy recently performed What’s Love on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and currently the reggae/dancehall single is receiving the most U.S. radio air play for its genre.
The video was directed by the legendary Hype Williams, who is well-known for his video clips with Kanye West, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Missy Elliot. His production perfectly complements “What’s Love” with his colorful and bold direction. Moreover, a special behind-the-scenes making of this high concept, high fashion video will be shown.
Watch the new video by Shaggy feat. Akon What’s Love here on Wednesday February 20
The first single from Iranian artist Arash’s new album is called Donya and features Shaggy! Shaggy and Arash presented the video for Donya yesterday at club Ritual Hollywood (click here for a picture thnx to Mike Soltano and Nyla Magazine).
Arash’s second studio album features collaborations with Shaggy, Lumidee, Rebecca and Helena and will be released soon (source) as well as the first single featuring Shaggy, Donya.
Where in the World is Shaggy Part I
DJ Kue made a documentary about Shaggy’s whereabouts on his current Intoxication promotion tour. New videos will be added every two weeks! So if you wanna know what Shaggy and the Big Yard crew have been up to lately, check this cool video!
It features Shaggy, Rik Rok, Rayvon, Paul “Rossy” Lee and DJ Kue from places where the Big Yard crew went for the last couple of months: Backstage at MTV, Germany, MTV Europe Music Awards, Monaco, World Music Awards with Patty Labelle, Miami, Los Angeles City Walk, New York Bloomberg TV with Mike Schneider, CW11 Morning TV, Japan, Belgium, Malaysia, Istanbul, Turkey, Stefan Raab TV Total, on a plane back to Germany from the UK Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and the Stefan Raab Stock Car Challenge. Big up DJ Kue / Big Yard for this behind the scenes look!
Reggae Academy Awards
The Reggae Academy Awards 2008 will be held on Sunday, February 24 at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, Jamaica. Shaggy will be one of the artists to perform at the Awards Show, as well as Sean Paul, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Morgan Heritage, Junior Reid, Elephant Man, Diana King and Toots Hibbert. Official site.
Natalia Meets…En Vogue feat. Shaggy: even more videos
Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy compilation video
Natalia & Shaggy Drop a Little
Natalia & Shaggy Drop a Little 2
Shaggy on Groove Mobile
Business article.
Mr Lover Lover won the Dancehall Role Model of the Year Award at the Hot 102 FM Excellence in Music and Entertainment Awards (EME 2008). Congratulations Shaggy! Source.
Shaggy for Afrika Karibik Festival
Shaggy will headline the opening night of the Afrika Karibik Festival in Aschaffenburg, Germany on August 14. Other acts that will perform on the festival which will take place between August 14 and 17 2008, are Gentleman and the Far East Band, Jan Delay and Disko No. 1, “Mr. No-Monkey” Wally Warning, Ohrbooten, Sambodromo, Jah Sesco, Yah Meek and Anthony Locks. The tickets are for sale already, the first 2000 tickets go for special prices. You can read all about it the Afrika Karibik official festival site.
Shaggy at 1Xtra
Shaggy (yellow shirt) on the 1Xtra Carnival After Party 2007 – Shaggy on the 1Xtra annual Bob Marley Day.
Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy live in concert in Antwerp, Belgium, video links
Boombastic – Strength of a Woman – Strength of a Woman 2 – Drop a Little
Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy in concert in Antwerp, Belgium, the end of the show video
Courtesy of Shaggy’s MySpace, here are two new upcoming February dates where you can see Shaggy perform:
Shaggy’s Platinum VIP Intoxication Album Release Party
February, 8 2008 at Club Pinnacle
720 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February, 9 2008 at Club Passions
Providence, Rhode Island
Interviews
Thanks to clothesdrop over at the Big Yard Message Board, I didn’t know about the magazine before: Shaggy’s on the cover of the Posh Magazine!
You can view or download pages from the Caribbean Posh magazine for free at the Caribbean Posh site. Fill in your data then go to the Digital Flipbook, Shaggy is on the cover, contents, there’s a large interview with Shaggy including big pics at page 27 to 30, Shaggy’s “All About Love” from his new studio album Intoxication is mentioned as a Valentine’s gift on page 43 and Shaggy’s on the 5 Most Stylish List a couple of pages from there. You can also read the entire interview if you go to Entertainment / Culture. Thanks Ben for the email once again, thnx and big up clothesdrop for the find!
Like a Superstar official UEFA video presentation
The UEFA officially presented the Like a Superstar video clip by mascots Trix & Flix, feat. Shaggy and you can watch a high quality version of the video at the UEFA site. There’s an article in German about the Trix & Flix feat. Shaggy “Like a Superstar” UEFA Euro Soccer 2008 single and video on AppenZell24.ch. It also has a small interview with Shaggy!
Sean Kingston’s Birthday Party
Shaggy was the guest of honor at Sean Kingston’s (Beautiful Girls) 18th birthday party! He performed Boombastic and Church Heathen and fellow Big Yard artist Christopher Martin also hit the stage. Sounds like a special birthday party to me, even for a star! The celebrations were captured by MTV, which will air it in their upcoming Celebrity Super Birthday series. Source: Jamaica Observer.
Shaggy at Riddim Sound Clash 2007 in Dusseldorf, Germany video
Shaggy and Rik Rok Boombastic, Church Heathen and It Wasn’t Me at the Riddim Soundclash 2007 (between David Rodigan, Sentinel and Black Scorpio) in Dusseldorf, Germany
Natalia Meets…En Vogue feat. Shaggy
Here are more pics of the concert series at Indymedia.be. Below you can also find a report (interview, Rising, Oh Carolina) on the Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy concert series from a Belgian tv show – sorry I don’t know what station
More YouTube videos
The Drama Queen for PNC TV interview with Shaggy is on YouTube again, if you haven’t seen it yet or wanna see it again here‘s your link. Pics of Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy by Laprincipessa and the Temptation Island “In Jamaica we say go get it” – full Temptation Island video here.
Reggae Report Shaggy interview
Reggae Report did an interview with Shaggy, which covers a lot of personal, music and business questions. The article also includes a couple of Shaggy and Rik Rok pics!
More new pictures of Shaggy
Rex Features has pictures of Shaggy at the Jay Leno show. Here’s also a picture of Shaggy and Jay Leno at The Tonight Show thanks to Bajan Reporter. Miss Items.be has a pic of the Belgian Miss Sports 2007 and Shaggy from a couple of weeks back when Shaggy performed at the Natalia Meets… En Vogue feat. Shaggy concerts.
Shaggy at Machel Montano concert
Shaggy did a surprise performance at Machel Montano’s big show in Port of Spain a couple of days ago. After Wining Season, he performed Big Up, Church Heathen and Criminal. Read more about it in articles 1 and 2.
Negril Spring Break
On request… more information about Spring Break Jamfest 2008 where Shaggy, Sean Paul and Beenie Man will perform. The official Spring Break Jamfest site isn’t functioning but there’s a lot of info in this article. Sounds pretty cool!
E! Online updated its schedule, so if you wanna know when Shaggy will be on E! here’s the updated schedule. The episode of Chelsea Lately that features Shaggy, Carrie Ann Inaba (from Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann), Carrie Keagan (host on No Good TV), and Heather McDonald (comedian) will be broadcast on
Saturday, Jan 26, 11:30pm,
Sunday, Jan 27, 2:30am,
Thursday, Jan 31, 11:30pm,
and Friday, Feb 1, 2:30am.
Shaggy’s label, Big Yard, has a new item about Shaggy’s other primetime appearance on US TV. You can read more about Shaggy’s hot performance of his brand new single What’s Love feat. Akon on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC on the BigYard site or watch the video here.
Shaggy to perform at Heineken Sint Maarten Regatta
Shaggy will perform at the largest sailing event in the Caribbean, the 28th St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, on Sunday, March 9th 2008. Article.
Shaggy is #1 in Aruba!
Shaggy’s Those Days feat. Na’Sha from the Intoxication album is currently number one in Aruba! Jamaica Observer.
What’s Love video shoot
The video for Shaggy and Akon’s new single, What’s Love, is soon to be released. Do you wanna see a photo from the video shoot? There are a couple of pictures online thanks to Big Yard, among others on Toronto Lime.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – US visitors
If you’re from the US (or if you know how to), you can watch Monday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno featuring Shaggy, Simon Cowell, Ryan Seacrest and Tavis Smiley on the Tonight Show’s My Space Channel. If you can’t see the video, you can watch Shaggy, Na’Sha and Tony Gold perform Shaggy’s brand new single What’s Love ft. Akon here as well.
St Kitts Music Festival 2006 Recap
If you haven’t seen the video recap yet, it’s now on YouTube featuring Shaggy, Akon, beautiful pictures of the tropical island St Kitts and more.
Live at Chiemsee Reggae Summer 1998 Audio
Audiomaxxx has as of yet the MP3s of Shaggy live at Chiemsee Reggae Summer 1998. If you didn’t get a bonus cd with your Shaggy live at Chiemsee Reggae Summer 1998 DVD – or if you haven’t had a chance to pick up a copy, you can listen to small parts of Sexy Body Girls – Midnite Lover – Something Different – My Dream – Nice & Lovely – Oh Carolina – Big Up – Heartbreak Suzie by Shaggy, Rayvon and Brian & Tony Gold on the same page as well.
The fourth annual Excellence in Music and Entertainment (EME) Awards nominations have been announced. Shaggy is nominated for “Male DJ of the Year (for a solo vocal performance)”, “Top International Artist of the Year”, “Recording Artist of the Year”, “Best Collaboration of the Year” for his collaboration with Rik Rok on Bonafide Girl and “Best Song of the Year” for Church Heathen. Shaggy’s manager and producer for the Big Yard Music Group, Robert Livingston, has been nominated for “Best Producer of the Year in Reggae” and “Best Producer of the Year in Dancehall”.
The EME Awards will kick off on Thursday, February 7 with a live broadcast on HOT102 FM from the Gardens of the Jamaica Pegasus hotel. The show will also be recorded and broadcast on CVM TV. Thanks to Source.
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