Sean Paul debuts
new music video
for ‘Dynamite’
By Nelson A. King
The multi-award-winning
and Billboard chart topping
Sean Paul has released his new
visual for his latest, indisputable
pop banger “Dynamite,”
featuring Sia.
Directed by Storm Saulter,
the music video matches the
energetic single with its lively
choreography and “Sci-Fi setting,”
according to Jamaican
Ronnie Tomlinson, a Brooklynbased
entertainment publicist.
“The fun and futuristic video
gives viewers a peek into the
new tech fueled- and chromefilled
world of Kingston, Jamaica,
in the future,” Tomlinson,
chief executive officer of the
New York-based Destine Media,
told Caribbean Life.
“The video sees dancers
decked out in elaborate colorful
costumes, as they are swayed by
the infectious rhythm of ‘Dynamite’
while competing in an
epic dance battle,” she added.
Tomlinson said the track
marks a “highly anticipated follow
up collaboration between
the genre-bending artists”
since their smash hit “Cheap
Thrills,” also produced by Greg
Kurstin, which has racked up
over 1.6 billion YouTube views
since its 2016 release.
This summer, Sean Paul
shared a cheeky new single
“Only Fanz” featuring Ty Dolla
$ign.
Empowering women who
creatively earn their living,
“Only Fanz” garnered acclaim
from Vibe hailing it a “tropical
banger,” while Hot New Hip
Hop declared it “one of the
most fun songs of the summer.”
Earlier this year Sean
released “Live N Livin”, a collaborative
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celebration of his
Jamaican heritage and dancehall
roots in which he trades
the microphone with Buju
Banton and Mavado. Sean Paul.
Curtains up! Miller Theatre at Columbia is back
By Nelson A. King
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
School of the Arts says its 2021-
22 season has returned to in-person
programming for the first time since
March 2020, a boon to New York City’s
cultural landscape.
Executive Director Melissa Smey,
lauded for the integrity of her curating,
has produced an invigorating season
of “immersive, cutting-edge work
that sets the bar high”, according to
The New Yorker, through four classic
Miller series: Composer Portraits, Early
Music, Bach and Jazz.
“There are few series as satisfying
as the Miller Theater’s signature dives
into one composer,” states The New
York Times about Composer Portraits.
Miller Theatre said in a statement
that this season’s lineup, originally programmed
for the 2020/21 season, features
five distinct voices from around
the world, “whose music deserves to be
heard more in the city.
“Large-scale evening-length pieces
for big forces, numerous premieres,
and three Miller commissions fill the
programs and the stage,” it said.
“The ensembles—all blue-chip newmusic
champions that call Miller home,
a place where they can put on ambitious
dream concerts—have close ties to the
composers they delve into,” it added.
Miller Theatre said Ensemble Signal
showcases Italian electronic composer
Luca Francesconi; International
Contemporary Ensemble performs
Portraits of Brazilian-American electroacoustic
composer Felipe Lara and
the trailblazing musician/composer
Matana Roberts; Yarn/Wire plays music
of Australian composer Thomas Meadowcroft.
The season opens with a Portrait of
Kati Agócs, featuring singer Lucy Dhegrae
and Third Sound.
Miller Theatre said it is also home
to “exciting” Early Music and Bach
concerts, having “pioneered the mix of
antique and avant-garde that the bigger
organizations now emulate” (The
New Yorker).
England’s venerable Stile Antico and
Simone Dinnerstein’s Bach return this
year.
Jazz is also a passion of Smey, and
the stage welcomes three fabulous bandleaders:
Lionel Loueke, Miguel Zenón,
and the Miller debut of Kenny Barron
and his esteemed trio.
After the COVID shutdown, Miller
Theatre said it was far from silent. It
continued to commission music and
Matana Roberts. Evan Hunter McKnight
support composers and musicians,
throwing itself into digital innovations
with the critically-acclaimed
podcast Mission: Commission (Season
Two debuts this spring) and Live from
Columbia, an extension of Pop-Up Concerts
that brings the campus to the
people through state-of-the-art concert
films.
“World-class musicians ranging from
the JACK Quartet to Brandee Younger
performed in places like Columbia’s
famed Butler Library and The Lantern,
and the public got to watch from
the front row—at home,” Miller Theatre
said. “These digital ventures have
already reached people in 80 countries
and 50 states.”