Friday, May 22, 2026

Weekend Music: Watch Shaggy Perform His New Hit, “When She’s Around” with Rwanda Star Bruce Melodie

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Reggae icon Shaggy performed his new hit, “When She’s Around,” on “Good Morning America” this week with Bruce Melodie. Bruce has such a great voice, and he hails from Rwanda. Shaggy is just always jubilant and upbeat, with a lilting vocal you can’t forget.

The pair made the rounds on other ABC outlets like “Nightline” and “Live with Kelly and Mark.”

“When She’s Around” has 10 million views across all social platforms and is starting to take off on radio. Once you hear it, you want to hear it again.

I love the whole Shaggy Renaissance. He did a Grammy nominated Sinatra album produced by Sting and won a Grammy with Sting for Best Reggae album. Viva Shaggy!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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