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Tanya Stephens to release new album and book later this year

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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Tanya Stephens is prepping the release of a new album as well as a book later this year. The artiste who was previously signed to New York’s VP Records, recently unveiled a new track called Nasty from the forthcoming disc at the Sex in the City live performance series held in New Kingston.

“The album is a continuation of the thought process and the frame of mind that I have been in. There won’t be any skits on the album, just some songs to make you think about real life situations,” Stephens told this column.

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Tanya’s tears win recognition

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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Tanya Stephens

Dancehall lyricist Tanya Stephens was hailed as a positive role model at the inaugural lecture at the launch of the Centre for Social Ethics held at the St Michael’s Theological College, last Saturday evening.

It was the first of a series of lectures on social ethics that are to be held at the college. Dr. Anna Perkins had the honour of making the first presentation, choosing the dancehall and one of its premiere entertainers on which to base her study. Dubbed ‘Tasting Tears and Not Admitting Defeat: Promoting Values and Attitudes through the Music of Tanya Stephens’ Perkins gave an interesting and well informed lecture basing her examples on Stephens’ last two albums: Gangsta Blues and Rebelution.

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