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Downie, Snow, Sexsmith Sing On Charity Single

Source: Karen Bliss, jam.canoe.ca

Gord Downie, Ron Sexsmith, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Snow and David Usher are among the artists contributing to a new charity single recorded this week.

Money raised by the song, “Buried Heart,” will go toward a transition and detox centre for female drug addicts and sex trade workers.

While the original idea for the song came from the horrific disappearance of over 50 women from the seedy East Side of downtown Vancouver, it is now meant to raise awareness for women who turn to the streets as a way of life and can’t find a way out.

Statistically, by the time these young women hit 18, the average sex worker has already been on the streets three years. Many come from abusive households or have been abused by someone they trust.

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Infamey Voices His Concerns

Source: Infamey (Used with permission)

Rainbow Sun FrancksHey everybody. About two weeks ago while I was watching Much, Rainbow (Rainbow Sun Francks, MuchMusic Vj, pictured) threw to ‘Still 2 Much’.

When the song was over it came back to Rainbow and he started singing Snow’s verse in what I thought was a mimicking sort of tone. Well, I was a little pissed off, so I wrote Rainbow a letter, never thinking he would write back….well, he wrote me back!

The top letter is what I wrote. The next message is what Rainbow wrote in response.

Hope you find it interesting….

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Snow Working With Shaggy Producers

Source: Paul Cantin, jam.canoe.ca

Shaggy - Hots Shot album coverSnow is collaborating on a new album with part of the production team behind Shaggy’s mega-platinum disc “Hotshot.”

The Toronto-based urban-music star told JAM! Music that he is currently recording the new record in Miami with Tony and Dave Kelly, who were among the producers and engineers credited on Shaggy’s “Hotshot,” one of the biggest-selling albums of the last year.

Those sessions — along with tracks cut with Blu Cantrell producer Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and “another guy from New Jersey who is just coming out” — should surface in August on Snow’s follow-up to 2000’s “Mind On The Moon”.

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Steve Salem Dies Of Cancer

Source: Tamei and, www.nytimes.com

Steve SalemSteve Salem died on January 29th at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 42.

Owner of Salem Entertainment, partner of Salem and Salem Consulting Inc, Salem and Eng (Motor Jam Records), and Ray and D.J. Publishing and who was Snow`s first management and acted as Executive Producer on five of Snow`s albums, 12 Inches of Snow, Murder Love, Justuss, Greatest Hits of Snow and Cooler Conditions.

Sources close to Snow, real name Darrin O`Brien have reported to be shocked by the news and have said it to be a sad loss.

Steve Salem will be buried at the Interment New Montefiore Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York, on the 31st January. He leaves a wife and three children.

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Snow Cuts Demo With Blu Cantrell Team

Source: jam.canoe.ca

Blu CantrellToronto rapper/singer Snow has been working on tracks for his next album, including writing stints with Atlanta-based RedZone Entertainment, the team of writers and producers whose credits include recent chart success Blu Cantrell.

‘We’re working with producers to go back towards what Snow was originally, and that is to bring out the urban artist,’ explains Snow’s U.S.-based manager Sam Kling, who also handles Elwood.

Snow, whose real name is Darrin O’Brien, was in Atlanta from Sept. 26 to 29, working with RedZone’s co-founder Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, who has worked with such acts as Mya, Tamia, Tyrese, Ginuwine, and 98 Degrees. He also served as executive producer on Atlanta R&B singer Blu Cantrell’s Arista debut, ‘So Blu’.

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