A piece shifted over a million records to date and has even made a name for himself in the face of reggae jamaica. Coming into. Play in the rain and. That is really. The one thing i need change from in germany has been honing his record style sound on vocals for over twenty years that its. Like if it is so diverse that i can find a song for every atmosphere so i never tire of it and thats the biggest misunderstanding about reggae that it always sounds the same if you listen to the jamaican Radio Station you notice how varied the music is and im sure i didnt make one infuser just the moviegoing its a gentleman from atlanta has been rewarded with a string of hit singles and albums his second album senator john ensign. Cultist and the german record Industry Award for best newcomer. The two thousand full follow up confidence shot to the top of the german charts and sold a quarter of a million copies. But. The hits kept on coming two thousand and seven is another intensity to live it but the title promised. A few that i think ive helped records development in germany but if i hadnt someone else would have its just the drawing room music that has to be discovered sooner or later and we had more. To learn auto whose father was a dickhead discovered the sound of reggae as a teenager in his practice record collection. Eventually dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music. In the late ninety nine shes he started building up or following for himself a days festivals across europe. Meanwhile jamaica became a second time. Kind or theres no what the place where i can feel music like in jamaica. He was seventeen when he first visit to the island and its music scene was apparently so polite that some locals nicknamed him gentleman he kept retelling listening to make an impact and recording a series of songs hes one of the few european reggae musicians to introspect in jamaica. The battle. Line was ignored in fact in jamaica it was my music is now accepted in jamaica for a long time people knew the songs but didnt know who some it. Does of the show now ive become part of the music here when it started being tired of people not. Ok talk to me on the streets i get a lot of love and respect its nice to him with all due respect so no. Respect also from jamaica musicians such as Barrington Levy and sadie ring stupid from john collins hold us down let them. Know. How. To make it its also often the backdrop for gentlemen if you know you cannot. Go to look up the. Gentleman has been commuting between two levin and kingston for over twenty years now. In twenty tells you recorded some of his six studio album new day jewel in jamaica its been called his most intimate amateur record. Jeremy is from jamaica remains my main place of inspiration and theres no where else where im so focused on making music without destruction killing been found him as if nothing. Had to be sad but it doesnt always have to be to my car or. The video for the single that you remember was shot over the rooftops of new york city the next thing on the phone i. Love. You remember is the song with a message about returning to the essentials in order to look ahead with me new to determination your objective is to keep being a gentleman is positive about the future. Its been voted. Him seem to come closer to my goal of expressing myself musically i dont know if ill ever really get there completely. But this feeling of being on the right path gives me you know harmony if you know it you know i think some of. The. Time and the journey to china continues his freedom from. Players. Coming into. Play and close. To the. Gentlemans third album confidence comprised a whopping nine hundred tracks it debuted at number one in germany on its release in two thousand and four heres one of the hits it produced the love song intoxication. And everything. Else how to. Tell young. Players coming up its a given. Every time its. Big. Enough. To give it to. Every time you need. To cut. Cut cut cut. Cut. Right down to. The south you can feel like. It. Was once again we need to. Get everything. Ok now you guys you tell us what you did maybe. Even sang. But you know how great you like a piano its actually up its taking. Take some. Time now but. I would admit that you. Cut. Out a cut. Oh you. Mean you just want to give me leave to come up. With the middle name. Something like that i mean i know you know youve got to give it to god. Every time you need it. In twenty fourteen gentleman was granted a stint on the high profile the m. T. V. Unplugged show he was joined on stage by no ray of all the big name artists heres a look behind the scenes of the life recording in cologne. Slow cut it shall. Be soupy and your dad looking up saying. M. T. V. Unplugged was a superior opportunity for a gentleman and one he clearly reveled in egypt to be a good education. Hes played over a thousand concerts in the last twenty years but this was a very special gig. Since a few days there are so many good m. T. V. Unplugged albums its an absolute gift to be able to do this in such a venue venue with. The concerts was recorded at colognes renowned stop garden in august twenty fourth. In the two dozen musicians involved were first for two weeks before the big day. For lets have a fantastic reggae party fight. A look at. A crucial element of the unplugged concept is to perform with friends so gentlemen invited jamaican superstar shaggy to follow. A. German folk pop duo milky chance were also invited. Along to take to say yes. To. That place. Since jamaica is german second term he knows a lot of reggae stars personally including christopher market. That. Dropped him self in reggae music in such a way that if you didnt know he was german he would have thought he was just making. Love. And one of the high points of the show was a cover of bob marleys Redemption Song the gentleman performs with marley son kimani as well as come piano. From the german punk rock battle to tell it in home. The old punk bands always used to play with the way about. The clash goldbach spirit. So it would be reggae found understood in almost a pleasure to be. Slow play play. The m. T. V. Unplugged concert was one big party and joining the family of friends for the occasion was gentlemens wife and regular backing singer tom mika seen here on the left. The resulting album subsequently made it into the german top template. A few years before appearing in the Live PerformanceChristopher Monckton collaborated with gentleman on the single so the top two men evidently had plenty of fun shooting the video in morocco. Playing. Them when. They go. Into coming. To the top. Im now more fascinating insights into the world of gentlemen and extra. Intended putting gentlemen travel to ethiopia with neither cannot. Project their campaigns for clean water world war i. He went to the village of soto where this was a pump installation has improved life locals considerably. I move but theres a very different intensity when you actually go to the post. I also visited a school that receives funds from the german charity. That. I never thought it. Was still in ethiopia he richest song about his impressions called today. Gentleman shot to fame in nine hundred ninety s. When he performed on tell us. With german Hip Hop Group plan is the first children at the time he still went by the name mr gentleman to the track reached Number Thirteen in the german charts for the file to show. In two thousand and five gentlemen teamed up with turkish musician most of us some dollars to record which means read all. The songs stayed in the german charts for twenty four weeks and peaked at number six. Zero. Zero zero zero zero and gentlemen worked with the german hip hop fans beginner on on mom the single reached number one in the german chancellor sold four hundred thousand copies making a gentleman smoke successful release of a. Claim to. The two thousand and fourteen still the release of a documentary called journey to china for seven years two filmmakers a company gentleman as italian reggae singer all below sea in jamaica. The film shows how the two have made the caribbean island nation their spiritual home and how theyve been most themselves into making culture. Everything from the vibrant world of pop music on facebook d. W. Music story starts and the latest from the music scene. Join us in the universe of pop on facebook and send us a message we love hearing from. New dawn from twenty thirteen was the first gentleman album with all tracks penned by the artist himself. Including the single you remember which recalls the days when people used to write letters to. Examine the blood flow if it seems everybody blood glucose see them the bad one with douglas ultimately put i love the touch this guy came up the to love leaflets listen to the cello lets implement. The old college dont know dick show doesnt want to let them stick to it at least slip. The cutlass. Leaflet flip lets close. Circuit. Play. Igloo flip. Flip. Twenty sixteen a dream came true for gentleman he got to record an entire album with one of the sons of its great to start molly the resulting work written and performed with mommy mommy its called conversations. I dont. Know just far from pretty. Close geminis biggest reggae still money money on a joint journey back in time as they sing their version of mileys same a down or just one if that many conversation was instead kids like. You are reaching far more struggling to find a new dress you know it was sort of nice to work it out very much a little what i like about this project is its believed was a like me was what you could look before you know ready it was always the first over the last little what you know so this article or the framing killer put it into a certain shots and it was sent. To hot. Head trauma pricing her role as backing singer from the original recording to make an reggae stand last year griffiths the great Mercer Griffin is the only guest on the album yes and its such a she really made it and she came to join us on that video sure. I dont think the money was even born at that time when simm a donor was recorded and i was one of the persons who embraced that song that bob did his dad and. I had no preach on at that time that i would be here. You know doing the remakes. On the song with a gentleman and if my son keep money i make a speech on playing that she meant if this man has a festival and in twenty fourteen make a phone together it gentlemans and t. V. Unplugged show in cologne not says a Mutual Respect and network together meanwhile you know you would like to know your money to get there but just that god has been before and after tomorrow so you can learn from the way he writes means. You learn from them is hard to kill its self in the sound so ive learned a lot from this for us it is so much joy to want to work with it every day appreciate it now you will receive just a little bit because i know. That you love your. Teaching and. That tracks were recorded in miami and clearly not just tracks a compass but also a ritual material such as manna i love this place very close. To female energy is what keeps us alive if you know its mother its the father its mostly been learned to do the work if it were in their words it would be correct she were things to get a man who may need days but didnt you know its not about us counterattacked them son can protect him god how we need time to get smart so we can be divided got big daddy just so we can remember to love this city when it came to style they allow themselves plenty of freedom playing roots reggae as well as ballads they see that collaboration as much more than welcome to visit last i believe the good thing in life is coincidence nothing really just happened theres no such thing as about some things its written and so therefore this album. Was just a manifestation of that that was a part of our story different. Player lets say she was a top ten hit in the summer twenty sixteen janitor landing kimani money when talking to wow the crowds at major festivals that cross your. Ragged. To round off this pop explode special heres a veritable classic from the gentleman different places its message whoever you are and wherever you hail from think positive and enjoy a light. Touch. Cut. Cut. Cut cut cut. Cut cut cut cut. Cut cut. Cut cut cut cut. Cut cut cut cut cut. Cut cut cut. Cut cut cut. Cut cut cut cut. Cut cut cut. Cut. Cut cut cut let me. Let. Me. Play a. Closer. Look. Colette. Looks. Like you like the books lets get the book lets go lets get the book lets get follow lets go to a few law books. At the be. Looking at the back. Up the. Place the book the book. The the. Followers dropping bombs on. Our troops situation escalate last summer in the books lossless calculation military leaders were going to be extending the mass mubarak. Umph expressions massacres. Coming up. Fifteen minutes on d w. Its all happening coach of. The. Jury linked to from africa and the world. 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