It was almost midnight in Italy, but Maurice Gregory was up and about. The Grammy Award-winning producer and musician tells The Sunday Gleaner that the pandemic may have affected the music industry, but “it has not impeded on my doing what I love”.
That love – music – has taken Gregory on many tours across the world, and he has had the dream to go on a tour of his own ever since first touring at the age of 18 with Jamaican vocalist Justin Hinds, known for the ska hit Carry Go Bring Come.
He also did a stint on the north coast hotel scene, where he became a part of SANE (which stood for Sound Against Negative Expression), a band that played for artistes such as Tony Rebel, Judy Mowatt, and Freddie McGregor in the early ‘90s and eventually served as the main backing band for Reggae Sumfest at its start.
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