World News – Grantie Asher

Covid-19

March 22, 2020 by admin

Album Launch, Album release, Coronavirus, Covid-19

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish us all Gods protection through out this testing & serious time.

We had scheduled plans for our album release the Flip Side, the brand new album from Grantie Asher as well as a planned album launch party to celebrate the release and a chance for his fans to attend a special evening watching Grantie Asher perform live with our band, tracks from this most anticipated new album, with support acts from the finest singers from the UK

No matter how long this Coronavirus pandemic last for, lets all pray to remain healthy and strong in mind, body & spirits as things get really dark.
I’m sure it won’t be long before things find its way back to some sort of normality but until such time all our musical activities are on hold.

But we’d like you to be reassured once we have an all clear from the government it will be all go go go!!

But for now please take care …. Jah blessings & protection !

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Grantie Asher Icons of Reggae 2020

February 26, 2020 by admin

World News

Barrington Levy, Icons of Reggae, Sanchez

Hi here are a few pictures that was taken on stage just before I went on to perform at Icons of Reggae with Sanchez & Barrington Levy,

For all of you that saw my performance @ the 02 Academy I hope you all had a great time and enjoyed yourself as much as I did.

And for those who couldn’t make it please enjoy these pictures.

Miley Cyrus settles $300M lawsuit with Jamaican dancehall artist Flourgon over claims she stole the 2013 track We Can’t Stop

January 6, 2020 by admin

World News

Miley Cyrus has settled a lawsuit over her 2013 track We Can’t Stop.

The 27-year-old singer was sued by Michael May in a $300 million lawsuit in March 2018 over the rights to the song, which he claimed closely resembles the lyrics to a song he released more than 25 years ago called We Run Things.

Michael, who performs as Flourgon, sang the lyrics: ‘We run things. Things no run we,’ while the Nothing Breaks Like a Heart hitmaker sings the line: ‘We run things, things don’t run we.’

Legal trouble: Miley Cyrus has settled a lawsuit over her 2013 track We Can’t Stop; seen in September

However, it has now been revealed that all parties have agreed that ‘this action shall be discontinued with prejudice … with each party to bear its or his own costs and attorneys’ fees.’

This comes almost one year after Miley failed to get the case dropped.

In the past: The 27-year-old singer was sued by Michael May in a $300 million lawsuit in March 2018 over the rights to the song, which he claimed closely resembles the lyrics to a song he released more than 25 years ago called We Run Thing

Michael, who performs as Flourgon, sang the lyrics: ‘We run things. Things no run we,’ while the Nothing Breaks Like a Heart hitmaker sings the line: ‘We run things, things don’t run we’

Despite Miley’s attempt to get the suit thrown out, a judge ruled in February 2019 that the case could proceed.

In documents obtained by The Blast, the judge noted: ‘In sum, analysis of the relevant factors strongly indicates that Defendants’ use of the Phrase is a fair use.

‘Factual questions remain, however, as to certain of the fair use factors, particularly the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the needs of Defendants’ transformative use, and the effect on the market, if any, for May’s work.

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It’s her party: In documents obtained by The Blast, the judge noted: ‘In sum, analysis of the relevant factors strongly indicates that Defendants’ use of the Phrase is a fair use. The suit, at the time, accused the Wrecking Ball hitmaker of rebranding herself from her ‘trademark good girl Disney Profile’ and becoming more ‘edgy,’ and suggested her new music took influence from urban and Caribbean sounds.

‘The current record suggests several ways in which Defendants may well prevail on the merits, from a determination that the Phrase was not original to May or that May made only trivial changes to a pre-existing strict Patois version of the Phrase, to indisputable proof that Defendants did not copy from May’s song, but instead adopted the Phrase from one of many other sources, to facts establishing fair use as a matter of law. Those determinations, however, must await summary judgment.’

The suit, at the time, accused the Wrecking Ball hitmaker of rebranding herself from her ‘trademark good girl Disney Profile’ and becoming more ‘edgy,’ and suggested her new music took influence from urban and Caribbean sounds.

May also claimed both tracks feature a theme of ‘defiant audaciousness in the realm of self-discovery and self-governance.’