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Snow Working With Nick Carter

Source: Adam Gonshor, www.andpop.com

Nick CarterThe rumours are true. Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys is working with Toronto reggae singer Snow. ‘I’m going to work with Nick,’ Snow told andPOP. ‘We’re just becoming friends now. He’s a good kid and I brought him to the projects here in Toronto and he chilled and he didn’t have no bodyguards or none of that.’

The material that they will record together could appear on either Snow’s upcoming album, or Carter’s second solo album. ‘We’ll just go in [the studio] and feel it and vibe it and if everything comes nice, everything comes nice,’ said Snow, who is most famous for his hit song, ‘Informer.’ ‘I just feel like music is music and I can do all kinds of music. We’ll just work, have fun.’

Snow and Carter performed together on July 1 as part of a Canada Day concert at Downsview Park in Toronto, the same place where 450,000 people assembled last week for the Rolling Stones concert. ‘Off my new album, his favourite song is ‘Missing You.’ He was in town and just came down here to hang out. So I was like, ‘Nick, you got to come on stage and sing that song with me.’ He’s like ‘no problem’.’ Snow will be releasing his latest album, ‘Two Hands Clapping’ in the U.S. next week.

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Snow And Nick Carter Perform At Downsview Park

Source: Tamei and, www.muchmusic.com

Nick Carter is currently in Toronto working on his second solo album with none other than ex-Motley Crew bad boy Tommy Lee. The boys had kept a low profile until this week when Nick Carter appeared on stage with Snow during Toronto’s Canada Day concert at Downsview Park. The appearance has sparked rumours that the two are teaming up in the studio. According to a source they are currently ‘hanging out’ and are working towards a collaboration.

As far as the Backstreet Boys go, the guys will regroup soon to begin work on their next album for Jive Records. Meanwhile, Howie Dorough plans to record a solo album and Kevin Richardson recently completed his Broadway run in the musical Chicago.

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Bylaw Is Snow Joke To Rapper

Source: Lee Greenberg & Simon Hayter, www.ottawacitizen.com, zaphods.ca

Snow with Zaphod owner Eugene HaslamWhat happens when you mix Ottawa’s strict no-smoking bylaws with an invasion of Canadian music industry types? In at least one case, it was trouble.

Toronto hip hopper/reggae artist Snow showed up at Zaphod Beeblebrox at about 2 a.m. yesterday with a group of leather-clad, Gucci-sunglasses-wearing Missississaugans. They headed straight for the dance floor, and everything was going well until the DJ noticed the smallest member of Snow’s posse was smoking.

‘Security to the DJ booth,’ he called out over the PA.

Snow, whose Two Hands Clapping was nominated for best reggae recording, graciously mugged for photos with anyone who asked.

‘I’d like to remind everyone that smoking is prohibited in the bar,’ the DJ piped up about a minute later. ‘I don’t care if your name is Snow.’

Snow, born Darrin O’Brien and raised in the mean streets of North York, flipped.

‘I don’t smoke, man,’ he screamed as he went after the DJ. ‘I’m not even smoking. Do you see me smoking?’ A 40-something member of Snow’s posse was forced to restrain him.

Half an hour later it was all peace and love as Snow had calmed down enough to sit down with Zaphod owner Eugene Haslam.

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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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