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Snow Performs At The Rogers Spring Music Festival

Source: www.springmusicfestival.com

SnowGuinness World Record holder, Snow will be performing as part of the Urban Hamilton Showcase during the Rogers Spring Music Festival on Thursday May 7th at Seventy Seven Night Club.

Snow was born and raised in the city projects of Toronto, Canada. While in prison he learned to speak patois from other inmates and from there as a singer he found the love for Jamaican music. He studied and sang reggae music with a passion and later made Kingston, Jamaica his second home. After being released from prison he crossed the US border to meet with producer/rapper MC Shan who introduced him to MotorJam’s/Elektra Records co founder David Kenneth Eng (also his manager) to sign a US recording contract.

With the Billboard Pop chart hit “Informer” scoring a straight seven week run at number one, and then followed by another Billboard top ten hit “Girl I’ve Been Hurt” and the DJ turntable hit “Lonely Monday Morning” made Snow an international sensation.

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Snow, Shaggy & Maxi Priest For Cayman’s Fusion Concert

Source: riddimjamaica

The Fusion Concert Tour on 17th January at the Lions Centre will combine three extremely talented musicians on one stage.

Maxi Priest is a British reggae singer. He is known as “The King of Lover’s Rock”. His first major album, the self- titled Maxi Priest (1988), established him as one of the top British reggae singers. He is one of only two British reggae acts to have an American Billboard #1 and reach the American Top 10 in 1991. His duet with Shaggy in 1996, “That Girl”, was a world-wide hit.

Shaggy is a Jamaican-American reggae singer who takes his nickname from Scooby-doo’s companion. His first big hit in 1993 “Oh Carolina” was followed by “Boombastic in 1995, then 2001 worldwide #1 hit singles “It Wasn’t Me” & “Angel”. The album “Hot Shot” hit #1 on the Billboard 200.

Snow is an award-winning Canadian reggae singer. Snow is the acronym for “Super Notorious Outrageous Whiteboy”. His 1993 album “12 Inches of Snow” sold over 8 million records world-wide with the single “Informer” remaining #1 on the Billboard charts for 7 weeks. “Informer” was recorded twice in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best selling reggae single in US history.

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Snow on New Year`s Eve (2003)

Source: www.chroniclejournal.com

There was just one thing that could have pulled Snow away from recording his latest album: New Year’s Eve in Thunder Bay.

‘It should be fun,’ the Canadian pop-reggae-rap artist said from Toronto recently. ‘Just me up there singing old songs, new songs, making songs up, you know? Just doing what I gotta do. Just having fun, that’s the main thing.’

It’s Roxy’s he’s playing New Years Eve, by the way. Then it’s back to the busy recording artist life.

‘I’m making my own record label and stuff, my own entertainment company,’ Snow — whose real name is Darrin O’Brien — said of his latest ventures. ‘I’m buying a studio . . . start doing it myself.’

It’s been quite a while since Snow’s last release, Mind on the Moon, which hit shelves in 2000. That was the follow-up to 1995’s Murder Love.

And who can forget 1993’s 12 Inches of Snow and it’s hit track Informer, which sat at number one on the Billboard singles chart — and made the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling reggae single in U.S. history — even though nobody knew what the hell Snow was saying.

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Forecast Calling For Snow

Source: Ashante Infantry, www.thestar.com

Toronto singer Snow back on top with latest disc Nominated for Juno, 10 years after breakthrough

Reggae-pop rapper Snow’s problem is one many singers would love to have: Toronto radio stations have followed “Legal,” the hit song from his latest album Two Hands Clapping, with competing singles.

While Flow 93.5 plays the hip-hop inflected “That’s My Life,” CHUM-FM favours the adult contemporary ballad “Lonely Song” and KISS 92.5 FM spins “Missing You” a melodic urban track.

“It’s confusing for me too,” says Snow. “People come up and tell me they like my new song and I’m like ‘Which one?’ But, I can’t complain if they’re playing them all.”

Especially since his current popularity recalls his 1993 debut 12 Inches Of Snow and its hit track “Informer,” which sold eight million copies worldwide and entered the Guinness Book Of World Records as the biggest selling reggae single and highest charting reggae single in history. Long before the crossover success of Shaggy and Sean Paul, an Irish-Canadian kid held the No.1 spot on Billboard’s singles charts for seven weeks with a dancehall track.

Three moderately successful albums followed and now Two Hands Clapping is up for a Juno for Best Reggae Recording, the category Snow christened nine years ago.

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Two Hands Clapping Builds On Success Of ‘Informer’

Source: www.therecord.com

Snow in JamaicaWhen an Irish kid from a rundown Toronto neighbourhood has the power to disrupt a giant beach party in Kingston, Jamaica with merely his presence, it’s fair to say he’s a legitimate star. That’s what happened to Darrin O’Brien, better known as Snow, on a trip to the sunny island late last summer. When the 32-year-old singer arrived at the Stone Love dance, news moved through the 2,000-plus revellers at light speed until the DJ was forced to stop the music and address Snow.

‘It’s like when a supercat walks in somewhere,’ explained Los Angeles-based producer Tony Kelly, who was at the party that August night. ‘They love him in Jamaica. They don’t see him as an outsider.’

Snow, who speaks the thick patois common to the rapping style of reggae that’s known as dancehall, says his fame in Jamaica is a result of keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

‘I’m real and they can feel it,’ he said in a recent interview to promote his latest album, Two Hands Clapping. ‘In Jamaica they don’t know racism. They just know richer or poorer. It’s not black and white, so when they see me doing it they love it.’

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