The tragic news of the senseless killing of VP Records A&R and family member Joel Chin hit the reggae industry hard. Rising reggae artiste, Denno, who considered Joel Chin his mentor, release this tribute in song titled, “Gone Too Soon.” Denno stated, “The tragic circumstances in which Joel died have hit the industry like a ton [...]
REGGAE mega label VP Records is in mourning, following the murder of Joel Chin, grandson of the company’s founders, Pat and Vincent Chin. The 35-year-old producer and head of VP’s A&R department, was shot and killed as he drove into the driveway of his Stony Hill apartment in St Andrew on Tuesday night. There was [...]
Joel Chin, grandson of VP Records founders Pat and Vincent Chin and member of the legendary VP Records family, was shot and killed last night. Information is sketchy, but reports are that Chin, 33, was shot as he drove up into his apartment in Stony Hill, St Andrew, Jamaica. Chin reportedly died instantly in his [...]
The local dancehall community was jolted, if only for a few minutes, by news that popular selector turned recording artiste Tony Matterhorn had been shot and killed. The news spread like wildfire in the late afternoon via Blackberry Messenger and social networking sites that Matterhorn had been shot and killed along Barbican Road in St [...]
I have a healthy fear of dogs, especially the ferocious kind! My fear runs so deep, not only was I bitten on my foot by a rottweiler mixed with a pit bull but there was this neighbor pot-hound named Gunner, that would religiously wait for me every evening after primary school, to run after me! [...]