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Anything to Make a Classic

Source: Richard Johnson, jamaicaobserver.com

REWIND to the early 1990s. Jamaican dancehall artistes were having the time of their lives and the music was making mainstream inroads, particularly in North America. During that time, a number of acts were being signed to major American record labels and dancehall music was winning Grammy Awards.

Among the Jamaican artistes being signed was Nadine Sutherland. She signed to Elektra Records affiliate EastWest Records.

Fast-forward 20 years and Sutherland tells the Jamaica Observer that the song, Anything For You, released in 1995, was part of the move to shore-up her profile for the international market.

The team at Elektra, headed by Jamaican Karen Mason, decided to pair Sutherland with fellow Elektra artiste Snow, the Canadian deejay who had phenomenal success with the 1992 track Informer.

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True Dating Stories: Relationship Advice From Rapper Snow And His Fiancee, Tara Elizabeth

Source: www.shedoesthecity.com

true-dating-stories_250x250Have you checked out True Dating Stories yet? CBC’s hilarious new web series, created by Andy and Matt King, kicked off last week, and has been racking up the ‘likes’ steadily since its launch. Here’s the deal: real people tell their funniest, wildest and most embarrassing dating stories that are recreated by local actors and comedians.

Since Darrin O’Brien (Snow) and his whip-smart babelicious fiancée, Tara Elizabeth, are one of the couples featured in the show, we got to ask them intimate details about their love life. Snow answered a couple questions, but Tara Elizabeth (who is a writer) dished everything from which board games they like to play in cars (that’s a thing they do) to a legendary disagreement they had while on a vacay in New York City. In True Dating Stories, they reveal how their games-in-cars hobby nearly landed them in jail. (Holy shit! A licky-boom-boom-down!)

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