Snow performed for Belleville and a near capacity crowd at the Shark Tank Pub on Thursday night. Darrin O’Brien, known as Snow, who was raised in the Allenbury social housing projects in North York and is the voice behind the 1993 hit single Informer.

He performed that song along with material from his album Mind On The Moon released in October 2000. ‘The show was excellent. It was a more intimate show than we’ve had in the past. I think he enjoyed Belleville. This show had a lot of energy,’ said Fred Pollitt, director of student life at Loyalist College.

Snow was accompanied on stage by two dancers and fellow male performer Candy, while fans surrounded the area around the stage. Snow dropped out of school in Grade 8 and began drinking at age 13 hanging out with a bad crowd. ‘I might go back to school and learn some shit because my daughter is getting smarter than I am,’ he said on stage. When an audience member suggested he have a drink, Snow had this comment for the crowd:

‘I don’t drink alcohol, it’s good for you, but I wound up in prison,’ he told the crowd.

Before the release of his first album in 1992, 12 Inches of Snow, he wound up with two charges of attempted murder that sent him to the Metro East Detention Centre in Toronto. He was later acquitted of all charges. He has been sober for nearly 34 months now.

Snow’s latest single, Everybody Wants to be Like You has been flying up the charts. It was number 2 on the Soundscan’s Single’s chart in January. His next single, The Plumb Song, is expected to do the same.

After a revved-up one-hour performance, that started at 11 p.m., the excited fans crowded around him for an additional fourty-five minutes to get autographs.