Shaggy
Shaggy is in work mode. He has been here a few times with the number one record in several countries. The Dancehall superstar recently travelled from Jamaica to Atlanta for the launch of his new song with Spice and Sean Paul. As one of the most consistent artists in Dancehall and Reggae music, he has reinvented himself and found success at the top of the charts in every decade since he came out in the 1990s.
The 52-year-old has been nominated for 7 Grammy Awards, winning twice for
Boombastic and
44/876 with Sting. He surpassed 1.1 billion Pandora plays, streamed 2 billion with his
When Reggae star Gyptian recorded his breakout single,
Serious Times in 2004, Jamaica teetered on the brink of total anarchy as blazing guns obliterated 1400 lives that year.
The track, which was inspired by the island’s growing crime problem at the time, topped local and international reggae charts and was even declared the Song of the Year. Seventeen years after its initial release, its producer Kenneth ‘Spragga’ Wilson believes that the song’s message is still relevant today.
Kenneth ‘Spragga’ Wilson
“We always used to hang out at Wong studios in Garveymeade and I saw Gyptian in the voice box. I told him ‘yo, yu bad’,” Spragga began in an interview with