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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.
Snow Cuts Demo With Blu Cantrell Team
Toronto 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’.
Nuff Respect To The Man Called Snow
He’s been called a lot of things over the years: a murderer, a drunk, an abuser, but nothing hurts Darrin O’Brien, a.k.a. Snow, more than a comparison to Vanilla Ice. Ouch.
Both had hits around the same time. Vanilla with his Ice Ice Baby, and Snow with Informer. Both are white and both were singing black. But that’s where the comparison ends. Over a coffee on Front street, Snow, who’s made a comeback with his new album Mind on the Moon, explains why Vanilla Ice has always been whack.
‘There was a lot of talk about that guy and I always felt a little sorry for him because they (the people around him) made him into that guy. And then he shot his mouth off saying that he grew up hard and all that. It was just lies.’
Darrin did grow up hard. He was raised in a housing project at Don Mills and Sheppard where everybody was getting drunk and fighting all the time. ‘My world was kind of small back then,’ he says as he fidgets with the black toque that he’s pulled down over his ears. ‘That was kind of all that I knew.’
Snow Gives Sobering Message And Performance At Shark Tank Pub
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.