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 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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