Reggae Singer DUANE STEPHENSON shares his story 🇯🇲

but they don't know what it's like what it's really like what it's really like - feels real good the fairs real I am here vibing with an entertainer with arguably the best voice in all of the entertainment industry his parents named him doing Stevenson today he shares his story though I never live like he wanted that was my in full of work chatted me up on my bended knees and begging judge oh please I've got the scars to show I barely made it to long life's Road Oh in my life got doc Joe was the only spark the light at the end of the road what I do it listen everything good sir what as I respect I do you yes I all things well now complete not is good you know we have life and the music still would not important very much talk to me early life please a bird no public hospital yeah yeah everyone so um Jubilee the birth but you know I've always lived in August oh yes we're a group that's what I know that's my leave August or siblings yeah yeah yeah um four brothers one sister mmm parents arrived yeah well my father died a couple years ago is a mommy all right yeah once a good man good schooling I started at Aquinas ain't a music school then of course aunt the standpipe the New Providence Burma and ended up in TV Guide and comprehensive high school to the journey a journey true king son persona of course I finished about vtd i evoke Ascension and Development Institute I did refrigeration air conditioning mmm yeah August thought yeah what was it like growing up in August or you know understood was that it was a you know a good please leave and I was you know a nice place where people look out for each other back in the days and I mean it was a place where you know in the week is we are allowed to go to school so if you're at home on a week there there was nothing to do because there was no one to play with and of course the fpk dear Saturday Sunday to God Church I mean about a choice so when I grew up there that was the kind of Spears I grew up in you know not so much you see em DS DS born look for me you know that's the kind of situation I grew up on uh so you grew up and I'm growing their environment school was no option no no no preferably you know preferably Seneca I mean Sunday cos this is Saturday it's a football mine ever just make sure it cuz you know I've got to the gate officially host work yeah I mean I forget oh the music came apart your life do well for me and her uncle that was a part of a bun him is a mic I wrote the foot it was a part of a button called Rhythm Kings but mm-hmm so you know I was I was a curious bridging group you know so anything I saw him doing and I was interested because it looked interesting so I went with him to rehearsals you know and that's how I started being around the music yeah you know I mean what in terms of just listening well I bridging that used to live next door where he music go with it with it with the atmosphere and the mood and just what's going on in not only the country but the world and anything's wrong robot yeah yeah mr. Campbell he got miss our cameras yes we are I listen to a lot of the songs that I know know as classics Campbell was that was a influenced or indirectly as I minded music I love listen to music so how did that transition a leader - you know Delvin and Dublin into the entertainment industry well you know I think that gave me a passion for the music you know just a level because of course you have to love it from the outside before you get think that's the funeral of a promotes I didn't have a Nana so you know I mean so that's where I started and of course wanted to ballet school for me was a very musical place yeah sure you know I mean because when I got here I saw Luke Edie as a senior mm-hmm I mean was the first so pharmacy I play piano this Virgin America you know look - these are brilliant money I'm making fully an and that is what food is a mouthful brilliant nuclear is a brilliant you which I've been prefect King and I'm playing and singing in you know I mean that really had a lasting effect on me because if somebody were of a fearful yeah exactly I'm plus we had our superstars at the school at a time which is Busan culture yeah so music was I wrote and of course Buddhism and adopt Aurora then I'm torn here and finding a Burnaby here we as in I mean said would that was the influence was our own cue you know and of course I was led by Aboriginal mind to join katha leave a like a people on team players club I can say is music hi Jennifer [Laughter] Reid yeah when I say work over Michael because of course he's selling point three was what it was to be it was the work that was definitely it's a little bit kitchen of me yeah you know entering into the whole arena started at of course that was a theatre thing but with everything with Kathy verbalize at the audition so we're pleased in real-life situation not in qiyam free I didn't just turn upon because I kill them with a boom on yes whatever works each other you know competed other people mmm-hmm so that's where the drive music you know is that it do you know often said and I said it in the intro that in my opinion yeah Anderson I am no audio file music experts but in terms of voice is yeah one of the most this thing poor full voice not a business what will you do growing up to really and truly hone that are more that I just go in a studio one day okay Lauren cancer Johnny I've always been singing even as a Hubert farmer yeah anybody like people looking at me too much or because of that no okay now limit myself unto the parties that I go to anything because the minute I turn up somebody went give me like I mean I was more of a reserved person but of course being a part of the theater and as I said competing I you get liquor more of a drive but you know that's been the letter or singing you know we did choir and because a choir keep by our chair it's cool we started at a new problem sperm you proven is not a coincidence when I when I went beard anybody and then we got to about three or four greatest started a queer and I'm during the queer and then the first you know big-time play or two delicious I'm in my stuff passed away and we got the opportunity to the thing and everything I mean when I reach everybody everybody like I don't know everybody good Blanc I mean everything know because you know if I was in the back of my mind you know and they already know they say before and whereas if I can I live in embarrassment yeah so you try to learn it and try to always put your best foot forward because every performance is the last you know sure from then that is how I approached it yeah that important yeah monument somebody you mean two men sitting right yeah whenever you'd up on every performance is possibly a last performance you don't know when in the crosswalk chore at this too so you would have had bits and pieces of the learning curve in school time you have to continuously be singing you have to be you know owning Italian I mean when I started singing I thought that this was it for me but funny enough I became more permanent as a writer before a singer so tell me some other person that you well most notably is probably true afflictions forge a cure and I get your thing yeah my another because I guess the annuity rate will assign bigoted because a dual circumstance yeah yeah I mean but aside from that I've done work for of course you know me on TV under stuff I've done stuff for terrorists for Itano for Luciano you know numerous more tunes for Jack your peachy Android thing because let's say you know music has always been a love for me you know I mean I know but that's had music I mean as a whole yeah yeah one has a whole money because if you're not doing it that but that Margit you never know what's going to get you truly give even a man like say for instant agreed like Bob Meyer about me but my lemon would say them sang them nothing good or yes really but then I thought you know it might be a song let me sing have more pores immoral even snowed and Buccaneer true that the music's lived or lived on and so yeah we really the music we will stand it as a time money have to be true to the music and that's why that work or yeah that love you Gemma what were the years drive was was developing inside of you who brought it to a studio for the first time Dean Fraser being free ever the first first day we I mean we were in twice and of course we did some kind of a students can of vibe it while we're into Isis prayer Dean but when we you know we never forget I mean a new dean to my uncle I always think so sorry so just watching from afar and then one night I watch him on the TV and it was saying that every new Italian to work or not whatever I said what MD is nobody and I look to get twice this neuro card on your lung forget everything here no one reading me I get done they say yep I read it Elliott so of course we linked Dean and Dean so ah all right and I'm sorry I think Terris read it was a person that was he was recording that me for album called challenges and that's the first time I meet terrorists to Buccaneer Diaz ahna Anka see so the inside all right well cool vibe goodness seemed to churn and of course we develop a liquid nice and i seduce a girl you know I love you so much here my name's Ellen thing and at least now we check that I'm tune that big chewing about a career so no more liquid shown on it the one thing when I say well I would look one to me right from adaptively school still anything am I so wha I'm here now and it was very nice alright I was starting from today we live through searching for our identity while the rich man says they don't know what it's like what it's really like but it is really like the feels real you don't be I wanna touch on that wrestler they deferred I do in your row that's sung while you were still in high school I never forgot their burgeoning duet mint we competed everything and everything a girl in a class as a cute footballer school to go ahead and we decided to have attractions of course do it maybe decipher the right to a rupture but you know because I did you ever feel you know we're able to go home on komak with this look a project and in which I presented to to bridge another class and you know we not coming with and everything I realize why I can't say I wouldn't put any music so I just wrote does that mean that the time you know I mean yeah if you were here but the right that's not that is then it would have been from our early is that greatness without being story now you just never one want anymore it uh you know you never take it in a progressive judge yes this life that son isn't a minute even for that song will continue to remain pertinent for as long as I can think that's because the situation yeah is pertinent unison situation is is as relevant Dennis as long as there's someone that you know allocute I forget from early money and take a bus from the bottom aha Gaston belonged own and they need a walk the table is cool I take another bus mr. wax in acharya damodara Kootenay my lunch everyone because you know we want like a bit I used to this this thing's life wish you know how do you see what I work on everything so as long as you have are you to that drive like that then it will still be really fun time time but that's the sole life circumstances thank you for being here the Sun yeah so that was when you believe it was something special are you never believe it shoot this I'm Kara Tsuboi I will get the opportunity it was the excited for the whole thing and so and I mean it was this was our fisheye record and this is actually a producer yeah you know I mean we had real musicians play means to it they didn't need to a keyboard player and then him ping ping under the big deal no this is a drama it was not only a dream about agrochemicals this was like park astok was under original drums it was the machine but the new machines were what I was running the place Italian man that was still my greatest jihad I am podcast again it was crucified birds playing the piano and of course Mikey Fletcher where no one feel it's like it was me and him King DePandi's honor I'm King there none of these things were to be after but these were the great players that were do you say we were just so excited that I was a yeah I never even thought anything of it until one day I was coming in from Spanish stone in a taxi of course you know for people on the back seat AJ about to inherit seat away I will add 0 and this hyung started playing I think is rich me premiered a song the first time and the taxi man here attack seemed unreachable buddy I did the fire what is that sir did you know me and I thought yeah because no you hanging from a different perspective yeah so what did that son do for you do it it made me want more maybe not more yeah yeah when I wanted more money of course you know why didn't where I wanted administer is that I wanted to tell you know mmm-hmm I think that's part of the reason why you know to Isis indeed because of course all of us were growing musically here you know I mean people were going in different directions you have money besides the money look more done so I'm this that and that but primarily I always figured that I was a roots mom is the story that I wanted to tell mm-hmm which is why you know when I got the opportunity after leaving group to do an album with Dean you know when the album was done I said yeah so Dina says away- and they don't wake up with some new name you know mystic so my other so mister personal takeaways do that is our answer mr. follow me always mystic whatever yes I would say so Mina so angry words I just tell it is you know I mean I say hey story about me I said yeah well yesterday and then we start to view it like at that point at that point August I wasn't even written yet then were in studio ones and he was doing some trucks the same to England for Virginia blockage ed it was a England and that the truck came upon a Sam Dean this is what struck me some do you say I want him bridge in mind you like it that's it yeah my beans are like a carrot better I think I won't leak a fight and really not be greedy with anyone in I went to one came back with a song up a storm what at first it seemed a little bit slow and it could be dragging to me and everything so then I'll link terrace and say terrace might be is for suing lease a little bit different and again I say I'm all weird and I'm starting and Tara start with somebody putting this on you know exit and I say when I see every other job they ever did well Tara spying again the Buddy bears a service a fancy it was a one thing was true man is buddy has two different good why him did I resolve any money yeah money for each August or come to Isis mmm right the split was amicable yeah man it was just to me I just thought that as I say we are all grew each other you know we were growing in different directions time and once you start grew apart musically you know because you know they were more internet what they want to do a little bit more the crossover stuff in terms I mean there's nothing wrong with me no more young you wear them I meet them downside what it does say not a good known dancer with you I mean definite way in a fresh way to say ultimatum feel like me nervous to tell and we just were you know everything good with the members that is former members of the group get up in yeah right that came and you started getting some recognition oh yeah probably a few I started oh yeah yeah yeah we're idioms start up here no you know we need some other songs but most of what the group was doing was stuff that I was writing because of course you know diem is a is really into reggae roots reggae I mean that part did was in the heights of doing albums like navigator pollution or before that serious times he was doing challenges parables mm-hmm that trouble challenges not purples at the time Paris terrorists are second which is the one that you know really simultaneously with a Gaston okay you know so are Gaston was not only a song it was an album no a Gaston was it was a part of an album it was okay the first album or album was doing Steve is the from August own okay okay which let's see him weary recorded get to PN and then cottage in Negril that same album on you know many other songs still not give away an icicle floor of get up and still my people I'm gonna hear that get from dead today we live searching for your identity while the Richmond says that we reminisce the society but they don't know what it's like what it's really like what it's really like to feels real good the fair's real get to pressure to face will get first real get to oppression yeah Greta yeah alright school you attract that a different level miss that yeah really a Sean she put the in free as I started to grow anything started to blossom yeah from willing covered to Isis I start to record it with Dean you know even outside I recorded with to Isis well I am guarding parties on everything I got the studio yeah and that's the mission of it because of course so well at least you know the NSA am I in for coming in on you need face get like a better son I said what I mean I think six but I'm gonna million bridging so now we have to learn missing the black pepper Luis Abarca properly a 6.0 enemy are seeing mm-hmm so of course you know I started singing with daffodils and I'm about group of about six or seven are most abused at that point there was at least a two Archie years span where we sang and almost every record that chemo degenerate war college yeah - backing vocalist let me say I almost mean like everybody album come out we did background vocals and I mean from if you ain't England if you in Europe you in the u.s. definitely engineering here so we actually from sometimes eat in the morning sometime gonna leave till you know 12 1 o'clock at nights remember their minds I mean go don't own a Lego studio an orange sweet you know cheer tracker mine we just I reach because I'm on about to chew and for do one you know gopanna England flood yet so it was within the work it was a terrified but in the initial stage on I thought I was great when I go home to my girl and you know then the song you're playing Dean's Eric right now someone to tell me I said yeah so me I wait for my note realize that the things that play I'm gonna get me lured it can usually be used to you know would I be miss I knew Alex that you know Legendre a new Alexa University as mom used to their mind they are looking people are you my Givaudan what I'm tell you everything well mean at twice is Aborigine you want Simpson musical director might tell me first thing I will just reproduce in oh yeah what we never going to make it up myself but I realized I reach apart that everybody I see what I'm suppose this thing I just made one matter what is what do you say here's one you have to just move on me someone a tree card a tree an automatic in the car done we're able to me it's done everything underneath that learn emptying the never at first it was frustrating them I'll see you I getting period I will need the money attack I'm afraid forget the car because I look like this I get really because of course we have you know people are keep like and of course to people that definitely work with from his mickey bird working with Buju Banton chosen people I said I would be in make no wait money by Allah we die feller and I we start somewhere no singing some money to put it was it was that kind of a vibe until yeah gradually learn the learning the music fat Adam you finally went through some background and I had one for Lucia no the window the poor trendy and album well at the time no one knew the name what that was what was a big project at MVP sanctioned everything is an illusion and I'm ad and everything did anyone say you have a right to sank without ammonia yeah yeah one so of course I got busy here at me and I wrote the song Shore tonight into the next day and they don't link up with a keyboard player and work with and everything and every song was actually recorded by illusion and Morgan heritage it wasn't me I flip on cloud nine commemorating just stuff we would profiling at twice just for us I mean first Jackie right yeah major major major step you know I mean mm-hm and of course we even that's again it get it to apparent to us a yeah we're gonna retro but it could be it could be more if they wanted more yeah that song that you wrote for Luciano's what was what was it title you techno song is I love we meet it I mean that will make it Luciana Morgan issue the night no and everything is writers angels come to our rescue and the feedback I got from more than 13 as was positive no it was positive money you know I was invited to come over the lunch in the song and alum Catchings which was very important to us again yeah I've never been to them kind of lyrics labels it was weird you know on TV at a time you know buy some time on John PNM I didn't think I mean yeah if you never really loved real relevance and serious things going on in the camera company tomorrow would nor get off in hmm right what are the next song that people attribute to do in Stephenson when the conversation comes up is Oliver Stone you grew up in you grew up in August own right was your experience growing up and leaving the the motivation behind that song yeah most definitely my 100 percent you know we're interesting about borrowing became a battlefield is real thing that you know I mean anybody that group in our stone are even in a living dear nor before knew of it with a true legend are just being here I mean that's where everything can I change in the community of course we did invent up drugs and guns and of course everybody gonna for internal Capone I never thinks that change it but you know what people uses and work you know flow oil and everything their money send back m16 ammo you know and that was the beginning of the end for I think it held true chocha me a guy not only our Gaston yeah but because the irrelevant you know when I see the whole thing you know that's it affected us yeah but many times and Athena's when they get that brick the move are we from childhood communities silly not Gaston yes firstly you know yesterday when a man we can get upon go anywhere in August own because you know I have never contributed to anything in you know the wrong way yeah and what I feel like if I were a shot game and don't everybody can win a five-meter mm-hmm in a tsunami I say if again I'm gonna being able to tie tentative about some money everybody's annoying about innocent I mean I say so I don't get involved in I try to associate myself for the positive things yeah no I mean I'm once you do that you know you get a certain kind of respect cuz even when I don't hear but can ideas when I use that a lot more friends alive you know as much as though everybody Legion as far as I considered legend say never Goodman I never saw any without gonna yet because even if I'm one ever gone once I come on punished you know so that is not my team yeah someone will just disappear and say yeah especially yes this is on a comical of because that is respect anatomy respect is so much greater than fear yeah sure August or legendary so you remember you say that Taro's yes which I talked to your idea I even tell awake but because then I realized you know say him doing what M do and once a year up kind of vibe he knew his Terrace you know terrace melodies are unmistakable mmm-hmm understand so I need to create my own melodies and I mean yeah might someone look a bit like a Baptist pastor so what was the reaction to the Sun from community members dobut are some people might say oh I do a lot of it thing I him so animism that is the first place I go and I've cuz of course I'm doing album woodland and everything I didn't know where to hit it I don't know what was burned up you know because of course it went didn't Fiat yeah one you know we do I redeem things on his work I was nothing twice it's anymore yeah you know working doing what wrong thing and I was a night thing and I would have that's all I live inside of a no we're going yeah I remember ceaseless ahead I think no Indiana I know sir tonight five you know but you name please it's starting earlier I mean and what I'm one of my co come on gonna go try something when of course everybody knew will get to be inside Wynton sang that and you know good goodbye and then the my name I say then a bridging Amin when you're licked ERISA yeah I mean a lecture I said no I'm when I knew someone knew someone was a new ourselves all right yeah well I think we sawed using it you know I think after that after that tell me you know when you come to nervous the adversity missives you know what's it define it a couple more people prefer I want even walk or thumb go through it yeah I mean I walked up the road me feel like I mean I say yes all right like you wanted that was my in full of work checked out Gopal my bending knees I'm begging judge oh please I've got the scars to show I barely made it to long life's Road Oh in my life got dark that was the only spark the light at the end of the road when I was a young boy really now if you know August and we had found the same but we were on your dreams all around from gold that's a color it corner wreck us to jungler 12 tire Brian suited red lights and River all around and then the football ground became a battlefield and my life seems so surreal people they were falling all around but I heard you just stand my ground Oh Lydia Juanita whatever look they just done my girl wait I read a different level I get a guard that's me parade liver with I mean that song has always been a part of my in 104 know that son is it just is that somewhere the fluid song the energy is even worse not up tempo the reality is song and somebody with socially conscious like I think I am appreciate every single melody on Keane that some thanks really interaction whatever I'm not a big song that do we indeed yeah is little cottage in Negros yeah that's one this one personal that was a big Jim long before me where's a kickball mm-hm and it start player and radio mm-hmm and I just ruin leave al ghul left why am I breaking in because that's how much I love that year so of course Dean was saying that you know one had to lick over two reasons coppers are two reasons one fear introduced the younger generation to these great chewy actually my tummy's and also for the business of publishing because on these albums you wanna get credit are royalties on twelve songs Oh what I've we felt that twelve songs were you know disrespecting people people work hard for their money putting out an album we wanted to go at least fifteen yeah you know I mean so we did these songs you know I mean and of course come to song we started doing it once I didn't want to do Sam say yeah Miami but it wasn't getting dude fast enough him gonna and some delusional and then you know I took some of my bridge in Lemont see right no plane for protégée yeah Ian playing for busy signal no Randy paying for thirty different artists no on drums and of course legendary boy McCracken and keyboard playing for bang no on these on bridging them over just go in becoming a we 20 in the morning yeah so anybody to come read him don't think I was way easier because I mean of course we try things we try things when Dean turn him but I mean I remember a song that we need me on Terrace he was on the parables album it doesn't hurt there's some whatever guy once I get Dean turning back I mean our another guy yeah so of course we totally forget say we suppose going one of the time understand so is one Chuck one job yeah by one check one thing though we just did yes yeah so no ki mix funny yeah so what you hear what you hear is what track we're just going to tour where we just sing or did I come back I didn't love persona is you know whatever play about anything anymore said listen to eat more foods everyone say oh not just mix the music no one then put up because he did the music but you know most I can do a long to record I mean those are probably the three songs where purse identify with the quickest when it comes on to doing what you would have done many other songs yeah my god I worked on many other projects for people generally speaking sometimes I I kiss biggest song our most popular song is not his favorite son sometimes yeah what's your most favorite song that you would have place so forensic surprise right yeah because it is simply stare at Sangam because to me just the world v because sometimes I miss the boys sometimes you didn't hear so consumed you know the roughness very latina you know I mean it's like I'm gonna complain about the smell so John what about come over smell body see any my walk - I feel a disease yeah time visit why this says what it is what looks for me to know yeah you know I mean so that's why I think that time you so but to me you don't I mean a favorite trucks because of you know who I speak I mean really not so far results huge them can't find a dinner fewer of them disappear so far as eyes well people gotta let me know sheltered them can find all you know suffer as a politician them na flex right only a sponsored fight you know so far as I you know surfer is a let's say it says like what I getting low but Mr curry saying you're complaining about are these things but things are right because you know the big guy it bends now work in astronomy I say yeah comple and somewhere light bill Apollo's yeah and I big pretty oath will like be like yeah yeah I mean what hang because so it your company about all of these things so you know computer Fox my general but hours I began six no I delight yeah I mean yes a boy this year we can go a Florida vacation Webster yeah so where is the most turbot in general yeah you know nothing Florida with your journal you know meanwhile in a software site is a whole different difference that we had yesterday me has no mana time 15 port via case I became I think bought you know tomorrow Peter that's cool I mean yet up would your company would like banana light yeah with Sun has been the most commercially viable song for you though ah the other stone that's problem it's definitely definitely August own definitely August I think cottage would because you have some songs direct you know that's like last year no this year I went to to be a good Jazz Festival the song that he own dear know is fool for you hit last year not to be again at someone's done in 2008 that was a lot between last year internally said was I hit in to be a go before that two years ago I did a tour in Nicaragua off another similar which is members only members only was it was a hit that time about two years before that for three years straight and them chat and I don't think and that song was record 2010 since everything in music you never know what is going to end up we're looking at the career what has been your biggest achievement at this point well you know I just think that for me is the levels of which people take the music as inspiration yeah you know I mean and I don't think it can't get much bigger than it because you have much a lot of people are very commercially viable mm-hm what I'm not foreseeable even one person yeah yeah I mean important yeah because you know Turk it might be a great son mmm-hmm but much people Turkic serve sure and I mean what if it make bitter mmm watch people in live them spirit change their mind from what coming so I'm okay thank you very much I mean for me I think because I had a stone in the pub worrying about our thoughts our talks you know we're prison that we can that be here we care everybody nothing when I go prison Adam was have a good Jo yeah I mean but you know in retrospect maybe I get four realize humanity you know life you know I mean because we are poets idea I think I'm gonna appear t criminal and Goldman a murderer but when you're going to start talk to Mickey you with and everything I realized the difference between prisoner life maybe was the say in modern everyday yeah I'm I'm gonna try the different road I'm on upset about something and it just lose control no yeah I mean I don't mind us grew up in a terrible situation so you're fine say when you start meeting a mutineer talk you'll get a whole different perspective on life I have so much more respect and you know know for the things I'm weird I wonder for the ones and what did help you on this journey oh god beeping I really I just stopped me you know just when you and me alone is a girl and I really be as an entity you know what is the biggest teach your performed art well I think is probably a stage inna Manchester England we're opening for the wheelers that was opening for a group names torn roses in the park in Manchester I don't remember the name of the park in Manchester which is the biggest park in Manchester England yeah I mean I just know that I see ser people we would know him for me was more man yeah mine was a different way I mean I don't you know so much Imanol was major festivals in Europe but I've never seen anything man that until that do you know everything you see on TV yeah what's a favorite please to perform well you know can't have a new favorite please yeah Revere ugly furniture places that I'd get a lotta you love and respect you know we'd be a lot of places the South America from you know ready Costa Rica Nicaragua circa that was an awesome experience into Suriname you know by extension Amsterdam because a lot of these sort of my from countries have links in Europe directly but I think going to Kenya and performing here give me a whole different you know different perspective on respect for the music I mean in terms of where they are in your group would amuse the kind of important reggae because Rick is like 75% of popular radio yeah ephemera in India like in Jamaica Regas about what what it wasn't five percent you know Kenya has a please yeah one and I mean you know sooner or later if we don't mind what what would mean we lose the music we're losing a square relocate temporarily whatever the government in clear when I was there the government was just entering final stages I think definitely seventh studio would have twenty eight students that they're investing in but the government yeah money investing in twenty eight students short Kenya for the development of the area not only the music would rig a specially because reggae is the number one consumed using in Kenya and that is for the development forget the mute undershirt and oh dear you know we just look whether to do it is a powerful powerful statement in itself you know because the reality is that we are the creators of vijana and we are the people who are the least appreciative of said creation the cattitude is as much as though when you listen to popular radio when you're going to these communities like you know when you go to like a country in London an atom things and instead sing everything it's a whole different way yeah it's a whole different energy people really longing for these music and the different crevices and corners but which anything that Montego Bay and Kingston Jamaica that is true that is true is not efficient is still there yeah money's still there one tick amongst the group because the truth is you know even the rue droite I mean but listen to the road buddy listen to our mining time you'd find him liquor a don't know well I'm in for them too many my will let me [Music] as an entity Anna what is that one thing that you are yet to achieve that your wanna achieve but I just like a better in the evening we want for at this time let me do it we'll see isn't much grabbing them give what they your demo 99% buddy we're gonna have my mother we will never know something be the art is right it's our thing you have the right just like a one love the water last thing you know just like it went here your sting singing because I know that this or any country memorizing it you don't mean that's if you don't want it as a singer-songwriter you don't wanna you want to imagine oh the people damn thing about yeah recently I just finished an album man the fifth album from vivid yeah it's not out yet we were trying to put over this year put in because the record company issues and stuff ended up pushing back I went to someone come on you know that did reversal year because you know nothing it cannot be launching I wouldn't be somehow because everybody's busy at the festivals on him I've associated roots music and almost music very season that in terms of how you do dance so we're trying for the inner February no name up album yeah exalted generates I think for me is another step in our journey in terms of I always write about you think that I think that I needed and I really front at the time but beyond that you know a roots music no idea seems I've been marginalized I mean with certain things would get into push in Arcana correcting the good things on chocho to the point where if you're not careful I might make you feel like a ranking a doe in SMS so you know drew writes is also a community remark Estonia we went to Pune time West's we basically they created one little situation anxiety among some wild-ass supportive mother yeah it's janessa yeah that was between don't wanna riverbanks between tavern and bark job August so obvious I was called today it's and let arrest us when deer for communal support yeah a lot of them were people from outside a community table don't people emptying into what we name because at the prosecution and we're gonna create a Monica so say Attica yeah I mean and it Chuck has been released I'll go on yet um one truck play that song was out he got to seven no more seven England and it was doing actually did very very well for means what are the songs was a steep in performances internationally which happens yeah yeah it was doing well for me and there's another truck out recently Carla put on the knife it wasn't originally going to be an album but it has been doing so so well simply because of the content and I think the producer is English and the relevance no ideas like if you work in English atrium where what you have is a Colorado because yeah makes it make a lot I says yeah any idea when the album will be released I know we've had settle and I release dated but definitely by the end of February early March so looking at last year's in February into the first week so much independent are assigned valuable we're talking to two labels right now but we can so much attend to things you're still here you're still putting in the work yeah I'm still recording still representing yep still holding on yeah well Ian everything's that'll remain in true to who you are yeah because if you come into this business there was a characters an answer to illusion something the one thing we are guarantee or care commodity but no one no I turn up with yourself persons who only wants to get in touch with do Ian Stevenson how do they go about that well you can first place you can check is everything anything right now so it's doing Stevenson reggae I was doing Stevens a reggae on the internet you can go to UM info doing in Stevens Arabia and internet for management thing or you can always link up on Facebook or Instagram do you see mr. Reyes really once you got do you miss a reggae it come writer so for the music for the videos for the movements and to link for business father Stevens as I speak of myself I understand and you know what all they I get because of water we got one downside I think for me is that time on please yeah yeah goofy I appreciate certain things more than when you were younger right and I can see it would all be any expert another thing that your body our speaks volumes be honest and the consciousness right the relevance and the message on the lessons are dear and that is important and continue putting in the work and I really actually appreciate these lines to you and from that I realize I love you still bless it look thanks for tuning in it something I said don't yet that stick on steer reach them each teach them right here warlord representing thank you for watching please leave a comment below remember to like and share the video don't forget to subscribe for more awesome content follow me on social media and Chico suggested videos on screen this is teach saying until next time walk good my friends you

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Published: Mon Dec 09 2019