Official video which includes interview’s with Snow, MC Shan and Dj Prince. This video has been edited.
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Snow on New Year`s Eve (2003)
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.
Canadian Rapper Signs With Japan’s JVC Records
Some six years after his Jamaican dancehall-derived single “Informer” topped charts around the world, Canadian artist Snow is putting the finishing touches on a reggae-based pop/rock album that he hopes will return him to the charts.
Even though the follow-ups to that 1993 breakthrough fizzled, Snow is intent on revitalizing his career and wats to let his detractors know that his much-publicized liquor-soaked, hell-raising days are behind him.
“I love [music] and hope I can now have a career at it,” says the soft-spoken Snow, married and with a 3-year-old daughter. “I used to have only one foot in the [music] industry. Now, I want to put two feet in. Eleven months ago, I quit drinking. I’ve realized I have to stay out of trouble and focus on music.”
In March, Snow (real name Darrin O’Brien) signed a deal with JVC Records of Japan, which will release an as-yet-untitled 13-song album in that country and the rest of Asia. Snow is looking to license the album elsewhere.
Recorded at Snow’s home studio, the tracks were produced and written by Snow with longtime New York-based collaborator M.C. Shan and Nashville-based producer/engineer Glenn Rosenstein.
EastWest Touts Show For All Seasons
With “Informer,” white Canadian artist Snow has managed to put a dancehall-derived tune sung in Jamaican patois in the No. 1 position on the Hot 100 Singles chart for seven weeks. In addition, the single (which features a rap by M.C. Shan) has become an international hit, reaching No. 3 on the U.K. chart.
For EastWest, the artist’s label, the current task is to keep the momentum going. “Now the challenge of establishing Snow as an artist really confronts us,” says Sylvia Rhone, CEO/chairman of EastWest Records. “When you have that phenomenal single that a lot of people can say is a novelty, we have to prove it’s not a one-trick pony.”
To that end, EastWest plans to expand on Snow’s urban base with the loping hip-hop ballad “Girl, I’ve Been Hurt,” to be released April 26. The label is targeting the R&B/hip-hop audience in an effort to stabilize Snow’s street credibility. To further that goal, the new single includes an extended “bogle” mix by Jamaican superproducers Sly Dunbar &; Robbie Shakespeare.