Actor Idris Elba and director of the movie, ‘Yardie,’ has endorsed British-born vegan reggae superstar, Macka B, on Twitter.
“Good advice from a real Yard man,” Elba tweeted with a video of Macka B speaking about the necessity of drinking water.
Greensleeves/VP Records artist Macka B has become a viral online sensation with his Medical Mondays and What Me Eat Wednesdays, with many celebrities such as Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman, Naomi Campbell and Traci Ellis Ross among his 31 thousand followers.
Macka B is set to tour Australia from March 16th to April 1st. The singer, born Christopher McFarlane to Jamaican parents in the UK, has a career spanning thirty years in the United Kingdom and Jamaica. Macka B follows the Rastafari Ital diet, and is also a vegan.
In 2012 he became a patron of The Vegan Society.
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— Idris Elba (@idriselba) March 8, 2018
Rihanna – world’s most streamed female singer
A Caribbean-born artist is now the world’s most streamed female recording artist on Apple Music. Barbados-born Rihanna took the title, ahead of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Ariana Grande.
Apple recently announced that ‘Riri’ surpassed two billion streams worldwide on Apple Music on International Women’s Day, Thursday, March 8, 2018.
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley for St. Pete performance
Grammy winning artist, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, is coming to St. Petersburg’s Vinoy Park, as Reggae Rise Up gets into its fourth year.
The event’s founder Vaughn Carrick, 33, says the March 16th
through 18th event is expecting up to 10,000 fans daily and will see performances from Matisyahu, J.Boog, Rebelution, Jesse Royal, Collie Buddz and SOJA.
Marley will perform on Sat. night from 8:30 to 10 p.m.
Queen Ifrica to drop new single
Jamaican reggae singer, Queen Ifrica, is set to drop her new single “Black Woman,” next month.
“My reason for doing ‘Black Woman’ is the mere fact that women today are stepping up and becoming more stronger in themselves,” said the singer, born Ventrice Morgan.
“Whenever we see that black women are behind, it is because she is left behind. Now is the time for the black woman to realize her purpose, her worth and what she is about in this space,” she said.
