By Cherisse M. Sutton-Jeffers
Reporter SKNVibes.com
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - IS dancehall diva Macka Dimond in love with a Rastaman? That is what everybody wants to know after hearing one of her latest releases - ‘Am in love with a rastaman’.
Macka Diamond, whose real name is Charmaine Munroe and is also referred to as Miss Money-O because of her money-o slang that she often uses in the dancehall circle, told SKNVibes (laughingly) in an exclusive interview that the song may or may not address the truth.
Munroe said that in addition to ‘Am in love with a rastaman’, she has recently done a number of other songs including ‘Couple up’, ‘Daggering time’, ‘Tink pon mi’ and ‘Mi a come’.
“So far”, she said, “all the songs have been doing great and been getting good airplay”, adding that “‘Mi a come’ sell off and is a favorite to many along with ‘Daggering time’”.
‘Don’t disturb me’, another one of the singjay’s favorite slang, can be heard on her ‘Mi a come’ track. She also added some humor to the tracks intro by saying “me say no call me, me a me own big woman, me come when me feel like”. 
Turning attention from music to her new movie, Redemption Paradise, on which SKNVibes highlighted in a previous story, Munroe said, “The experience was great and I had a lot of fun making the movie, especially when it came to learning stunts and how to use a gun.”
The movie was shot in neighboring Antigua and is scheduled to be out this summer. The film sees the Hula-hoop singer playing the role of a middle-age woman who has a grown daughter who lives in the garrison (the ghetto).
Her daughter’s boyfriend was killed, she got involved and she too was killed; so Macka Diamond goes out to get revenge.
In another side of things, Munroe has recently formed an all female crew called Galliance, which includes Macka, Lady G and Queen Paula, as well as new artistes Black Queen and Champagne. According to Munroe, "It is a group of friends who’ve come together for the advancement of female artistes as a collective in the business.”
“We realise that the selectors are not playing the women DJs in the dance, so we felt that if we organised as a force, maybe it would change their attitudes towards females," she added.
Munroe entered the entertainment industry as Lady Mackerel. She had encountered a few difficulties in her career path but this did not discourage the dancehall singer.
In 2003 she changed her name to Macka Dimond, and along with the new name came a different, more aggressive and lyrical approach.
She soon then became a well-known name in Kingston’s bubbling dancehall scene, the Caribbean and the US, belting out hit after hit such as ‘Tek Con’, ‘Don Already’, Try with him’, ‘Bun him’, ‘Hula-hoop' and others.
