Black Star Foundation is an all round organisation in reggae/dancehall music. The foundation is working with both Dutch and foreign artists with the main focus on reggae, dancehall and African music.

Black Star Foundation is a non-profit organisation, specialised in promotion and support of (yet) unknown talents.

NEWS:

• New reggae album 'Dub & Dwars' by Brainpower
  Dutch hiphop artist Brainpower and Black Star Foundation are releasing the reggae album 'Dub & Dwars'! The CD contains 6 reggae versions of Brainpowers biggest hits, plus the new title track 'Dub & Dwars'. Available from July 16th for € 10 only! Order the album here!
• Brainpower ft. Poor Man Friend at PoléPolé Beach Festival
  Brainpower, DJ TLM and reggae band Poor Man Friend will also perform in Belgium. On Friday Augsut 6 they will be at the PoléPolé Beach Festival in Zeebrugge. Before the show: Black Star Sound. We start at 20:00!
• Radio promotion for reggae
  Recently released a reggae tune or album? Get in contact with Michelle to promote your single at all Dutch radio stations!
• Recommendation by Black Star: Album NAS & Damian Marley
  The album 'Distant Relatives' by NAS and Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley is out! Available now, order here!

AVAILABLE MUSIC ON BLACK STAR LABEL:

• OSAGYEFO (Ghana) - BLAZE FIRE (album)
  Debut album of Osagyefo (Ghana), produced and recorded in Holland by Asher E / Black Star Foundation. Released: 2007
• LADY K-WIDA – LOVE CAN MAKE YOU BLIND (single)
  Debut single of Lady K-Wida with 2 tracks, ‘Love Can Make You Blind’ and ‘So Much Trouble’. Released: 2008
• LADY K-WIDA feat. KING YELLOWMAN - ONE MAN WOMAN (single)
  The second single of Lady K-Wida holds a live version with backing band Poor Man Friend and a combination style version with the legendary Jamaican singer Yellowman. Released: January 2009
• BRAINPOWER - DUB & DWARS (album)
  Reggae album by Dutch rapper Brainpower, produced and recorded in Holland by Asher E / Black Star Foundation. Released: 2010

Order: All the above music is available through Black Star Foundation. Both albums (Dub & Dwars by Brainpower and Blaze Fire by Osagyefo) costs €10 and both singles by Lady K-Wida cost €4 or €6 for both.
The whole package is only €25!! Check here how you can order this music!

Check out the videoclip of Lady K-Wida feat. King Yellowman:

Wanna check out some nice music? Listen for free to different Black Star mixes!

BACKGROUND BLACK STAR FOUNDATION:

Black Star Foundation is started up because of idealistic ideas of the founder Michelle Boekhout van Solinge. She graduated in Geography (University of Amsterdam, 1997), travelled a lot in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and in the year 2002 she lived and worked in Ghana (West Africa). There she got the idea to stimulate the communication between Western and non-Western countries and to bring people with different cultural backgrounds a little closer to each other.

Through art and culture (especially music) the foundation wants to contribute in the cultural integration, in bringing people together with different cultural backgrounds and work together on one project. Music is perfect for that, it is a shared interest from people all over the world, a language we all speak, no matter where you are from. Based on that, Black Star Foundation has developed her activities.

THE GOAL OF BLACK STAR FOUNDATION:

The goal of Black Star Foundation is to promote and stimulate artists from abroad and, more in general, to promote the exchange of western and non-western art, music and culture.

The foundation tries to achieve their goal by:

• Organising multicultural concerts and other events whereby the artists themselves will exchange experiences, skills and understanding;
• Obtaining financial means and credit facilities for promoting artists from countries outside of Europe;
• Cooperating with other organisations with corresponding goals.

ACHIEVED GOALS AND ACTIVITIES:

• Talent development and launching new artists: Black Prophet, Osagyefo en Lady K-Wida (2003-2009);
• Tour in Holland with different artists from Ghana: Black Prophet (2003) and Osagyefo (2006/2007);
• Different bookings of reggae bands and African groups (2003-now);
• Good cooperation with reggae artist and bands, in both Holland and abroad, but also event organisers and bookers of venues and festivals;
• Organisation of different (regular) events, e.g. Bazart Bashment in Club Bazart, The Hague (2005-2006), Black Star Reggae Party in 't Syndicaat, The Hague (2005-2006), Reggae on the Beach on the beach of Blijburg, Amsterdam (2005-2006), Black Star Wednesday in Bitterzoet, Amsterdam (2007-2008);
• Reggae promotion for record companies (Sony/BMG, Universal Music) and venues (Paard van Troje in The Hague, P60 in Amstelveen and Melkweg in Amsterdam);
• Organisation and promotion of Jamaican reggae concerts in different venues in Holland, e.g. Ijahman (2006), Mighty Diamonds (2006), Max Romeo (2006), Anthony B (2006/2007), Alpha Blondy (2007/2008), Jah Mason & Lutan Fyah (2008), Yellowman (2009);
• Organisation and promotion of Made in Jamaica Reggae Festival in the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam (Holland) with Third World, Bunny Wailer and Capleton (2007);
• Start up Black Star label and release first album of Osagyefo (Ghana), 'Blaze Fire' (2007);
• 5-Year Anniversary Black Star Foundation;
• Release debut single of Lady K-Wida and within 2 months performes on Parkpop and Two Sevens Splash Festival (2008);
• Release second single of Lady K-Wida with the legendary King Yellowman. Yellowman and Lady K-Wida also performed together in Jamaica (2009);
• Reggae promotion on Dutch radio for different Dutch reggae releases (2009/2010).

PLANS FOR 2010:

• Release reggae EP with famous Dutch rapper Brainpower;
• Promotion of reggae in Holland in general;
• Organisation and promotion of many reggae concerts in venues and at festivals in Holland;
• Organisation of a Dutch reggae festival in Melkweg (Amsterdam);
• Professionalize and expand Black Star Foundation.