JAMAICAN deejay Alkaline has been featured in French luxury fashion and perfume house Givenchy’s SS22 campaign.
The news of the achievement began making rounds on social media on Monday, where th.
Dancehall's ‘Champion Boy’ Alkaline scored a major feather in his hat when his music was heavily featured Wednesday on the haute Paris runway during the first major collection of Paris Fashion Week’s .
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On a cloudy Sunday evening in Fort Lauderdale, Alkaline (born Earlan Bartley) lights a spliff in his secluded studio. The earthy smell of smoke and lighthearted banter between him and his engineer commingle, escaping the room and drifting down the hall.
Entering the private studio, Alkaline has already started digging into his archives to begin recording new music. He opens a matte-black door to reveal a quaint booth with a lone microphone in the middle.
“This is where the magic happens,” he says.
In person, he’s tall but not intimidating, charming but not cocky. He chooses to keep his shades on because with a cameraman present he can’t be caught embodying anything less than “cool.” He flashes a pearly grin, sits back on his couch, and clarifies, “I’m ready when you are.”
Alkaline
They say ‘lightning never strikes the same place twice’, but Alkaline’s albums seem to be the exception to the rule. His sophomore effort,
Top Prize, dominated the weekend following its Friday debut with impressive unit sales and streaming numbers. The 14 track project received overwhelming support on all platforms and is expected to make an equally impressive entry on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart.
Alkaline’s first album,
New Level Unlocked, debuted at No. 1 in 2016, spending 18 consecutive weeks on the coveted charts. A similar feat with
Top Prize would make him the only independent reggae-dancehall artiste to have two consecutive album debuts in this way.