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CNW said.
“Now in her early 50s,
she is the eldest child for
Marley and his wife Rita,” it
added, stating that Cedella
Marley won three Grammy
Awards with the Melody Makers,
which included her sister
Sharon and brothers Ziggy
and Stephen.
CNW said Samuels is “one
of Jamaican theater’s enduring
stage personalities.”
It said that he has appeared
in numerous hit plays and television
shows such as Oliver
and Pinocchio and Oliver At
Large. ‘;
CNW said Donaldson’s nod
is “long overdue.”
“Dubbed ‘Mr. Festival,’
due to seven victories in the
annual Festival Song Competition,
Forte said Sweetz, whose real
name is Musulyn Myers, is an
international singer and songwriter,
who “has constructed
a lane for herself and does not
plan on switching lanes while
she roves this very long road
to success.
“After spending some time
in and out of shoddy record
deals, Sweetz has decided to
take her career into her own
hands,” said Forte, whose agency
represents Sweetz. “And this
comeback will prove that she
can’t be stopped.
“Despite the fact that her
stage name is Sweetz, the
carefree, yet, audacious young
woman isn’t afraid to speak
up,” Forte added. “This time
around, she has way more to
say and will be heard.”
Very certain of what she
wants these days, Forte said
the Liberian native “goes back
to her Afro-Caribbean roots to
convey that you can’t keep a
good ‘Wombman’ down.”
Sweetz said: “Africa is up
next, and it’s time I expose a
little more of what we have to
offer musically to the world.
“While pursuing this dream,
I refuse to become a watereddown
international artist who
conforms to society’s standard
of what great music is supposed
to sound like,” she affirmed.
“Wombman” is available
on major platforms. You can
watch the video on Youtube:
https: //www.youtube.com/
watch?v=5sxR4gpeImc.
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his songs include
the 1971 winner ‘Cherry Oh
Baby’ and ‘Land of my Birth,’
which won seven years later,”
it said.
CNW said Big Youth (real
name Manley Buchanan) is
one of the forerunners of
modern dancehall.
He began recording in the
early 1970s and has several
hits, such as “Screaming,”
“Target,” “I Pray Thee” and
“Hit the Road Jack,” according
to CNW.
It said Stewart made his
name with the Third World
band, recording and touring
with them for 21 years.
“A longtime South Florida
resident, he is best known in
the region for organizing the
successful Rhythms of Africa
show,” CNW said.
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property into derogatory political rhetoric,
further encapsulated in a video production
that can only be construed at
best as being wicked, thereby causing me
considerable emotional distress,” said the
Barbados-based Grant.
He said that his legal counsel, Wallace
E.J. Collins, on Aug. 13, issued a cease
and desist letter to the Donald Trump
campaign team, stating that Grant is “the
singer/songwriter and sole and exclusive
rightful copyright owner of the musical
composition and sound recording of
‘Electric Avenue.’”
“You have made an unauthorized use of
our copyrighted work in connection with
the political campaign of Donald Trump,”
said Collins in his letter. “As a result of
your wrongful, unauthorized infringing
use in connection with your controversial
political campaign, substantial damage
and irreparable harm has (have) occurred
and will continue to occur to my client
and his reputation as an artist when affiliated
in any way with your campaign.”
Grant said he is “just one in a line of
musicians demanding that Trump and/
or his campaign, cease and desist from
using his words and music for political
purposes.”
The signer said it is his understanding
that “all of the Trump campaign team’s
transgressions with regard to the use of
other people’s music, have taken place
during political meetings.
“I can understand the flagrant abuse
of my rights being attributed to the worst
Third World nation in the world, wherever
that can be found; one that does
not preach democracy on every available
occasion, but I fail to understand, however,
that such an organization dedicated
to the promotion of the President of the
United States could so seriously abuse
my rights as an artist, composer, arranger,
producer and, ultimately, the owner of
these abused rights,” Grant said.
In the letter to Trump’s team, Collins,
a leading copyright authority, also
said that, “as a result of your wrongful
unauthorized infringing use in connection
with your controversial political
campaign, substantial damage and irreparable
harm has (have) occurred and will
continue to occur to my client and his
reputation as an artist when affiliated in
any way with your campaign.”
Collins said that Grant “has always
had a reputation for standing for truth
and justice for all, and that this will be
seriously undermined by any affiliation
with the name Trump in this political
context.
“Such damage will extend to the value
of my client’s musical catalogue,” he
said.
According to Collins, the Trump campaign
team neither asked for nor received
permission to use “Electric Avenue”
under U.S.C. Section 101 et seq., and
that “they should be held liable for statutory
damages as set forth in Section 504
(c)(2) therein.”
Collins is demanding that
the Trump campaign “immediately cease
and desist from any further use or exploitation
of the song.
“If you know my client’s reputation,
then you know that this infringing use in
connection with the name Trump in a
political context is a serious transgression,”
said Collins in his letter.
The lawyer also demanded that
the Trump team “hold any monies arising
out of or relating to your campaign
and attributable to the infringing use of
‘Electric Avenue’ until the matter is fully
and fairly resolved.
“We prefer to resolve this dispute
expeditiously, in order to avoid timeconsuming
and costly litigation, and
the negative publicity that can surround
the unauthorized use of such an iconic
musical composition, especially where
the use indicates a fundamental misunderstanding
of the very meaning of
the underlying work, ‘Electric Avenue,’”
Collins said.
Grant also called upon “such arbiter,
as is responsible for this sordid abuse, to
come forward like a man and let’s sort
this thing out, in the way that America
demands when such issues are to be sorted,
especially when they are wrong.
“Mr. Trump, I am calling on you,”
Grant urged. “You are the final arbiter,
and I await the word from you.”
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Cedella Marley participates in the Q&A panel at the Marley Brunch with Marley Family
Members at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in West Hollywood, Calif.
(Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
‘Woombman’ Grant takes action against Trump’s campaign
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