Freddie McGregor
Push Come to Shove Reggae icon Freddie McGregor has encouraged Jamaican Dancehall producers and artists to take advantage of the island’s extensive music catalog to fill the gap in the “production deficit” with which the genre is now struggling.
The 2002 Grammy nominee noted in an Op-Ed in the Sunday Observer, that “a real era of solid Dancehall music” was cemented by icons such as Sly and Robbie, Steelie and Clevie, Dave Kelly, Lenky Marsden, and Danny Browne, followed by younger standouts such as Don Corleon, his son Stephen “Di Genius” Mcgregor, and Rvssian.
However, according to the Big Ship boss, in recent times, there seems to have been a dearth in pre-eminent producers, which has left him to wonder whether “the creative musical juices all dried up”.