Since 1966, the Jamaica Festival Song Competition has been cemented in the landscape of Jamaican Music Culture and today is the longest running original song contest in the island. The Competition has become a showground for aspiring artistes, songwriters and producers to showcase their talents and aims to identify a new and original song that is reflective of the spirit of the Jamaican people.

The Song provides a musical back drop for the annual celebration of Jamaica’s Emancipation and Independence and should stir a feeling of celebration and should be about Jamaica or Jamaican Culture. The rhythm must be Jamaican and the sound should generate mass appeal.

Toots and the Maytals, Eric Donaldson, Desmond Decker, Roy Rayon and Stanley Beckford are some of the past winners, who have gone on to  make their mark globally.

For more information on the Jamaica Festival Song Competition, you may contact us via email: festivalsong@jcdc.gov.jm, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.

Here are some useful links for Singers and Songwriters: JAMMS, JIPO and JACAP.

Watch the 2022 Jamaica Festival Song Finalists  official music video. Click the links below.

 

https://youtu.be/8yRtfLjJJ3w Magic Flute 'I'm a Proud Jamaican'

https://youtu.be/M6kpjiFBlQI Intrestt ‘Rock to Da Beat’

https://youtu.be/i6enYE_rYXg Dez I Boyd ‘Jamaica Sweet Again’

https://youtu.be/DpVA0JfZYUA Orkid ‘Diamond Jubilee’

https://youtu.be/veKKyWps4SM Rory Stamp ‘Bring Back the Love’

https://youtu.be/zUFm6yNUORQ Inspiyah ‘Jamaica Nice Again’

https://youtu.be/ukcME_imxB8 Nazzleman ‘Out of Many’

https://youtu.be/dDHMyhh7ZCI One1 ‘Sixty’

https://youtu.be/xra3DsNEzKE Sacaj ‘Nuh Weh Nice Like Yaad’