Monday, September 20, 2021

Reggae singer, Pressure Busspipe, eyes Europe

United States Virgin Islands native, international Reggae singer, Pressure Busspipe, currently has Europe in his sights. The Caribbean national plans to take his brand of conscious music to a doting audience on the continent in 2022. The artiste, whose latest album entitled Heights of Greatness, was released in August, has told the Star Gazing with Shaun Cain Show that Europe has been courting him for some time and he is ready to visit and share his catalogue of righteousness.

The artiste recently engaged the services of the United Kingdom-based Robert Rex Entertainment to help lay the foundations for his arrival on the continent.

The Heights of Greatness singer noted that he and his team have selected Robert Rex Entertainment after receiving recommendations and doing their own research.

The Rastafarian singer who grew up in the capital of the US Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, is confident that this entertainment promotions agency is best placed to help make his trip to Europe an impactful one.

Pressure Busspipe is one of the Virgin Islands' biggest and best-known musical exports. He is a righteous singer, who has fully embraced Reggae Music and Rastafarian teachings.

Born Delyno Brown in the early 1980’s, Pressure Busspipe was exposed to the music of Jamaica when he was a still a young child. He explained that he paid very close attention to the constant servings of righteousness that Reggae delivered. The singer said he felt a natural connection to the music, as it depicted life without the glossy pictures that often veil the pervasive hypocrisy and double standards among humanity.

Pressure Busspipe boasts that his father was a member of a popular local reggae band and he used to admire his dad’s works. As he watched his father perform, Pressure Busspipe eventually began to feel the urge to get involved as an artiste.

He originally started his music career as a drummer, but since finding his voice, he retired his drum sticks and high hats. The singer points out that, as he received his appointment from Jah as a messenger, he realised that he was chosen to write and perform conscious lyrics that motivate and uplift humanity.

A look at his repertoire revealed that Pressure Busspipe released his ‘Love and Affection’ album in 2007 with the title track finding fame due to the deep emotions it stirred among the lovers of reggae music. Two years later, the singer published his ‘Coming Back to You’ album. Not long afterwards, ‘The Sound’ echoed. Again, the St Thomas native showed he is a vocal powerhouse. His ‘Virgin Islands Nice’ record caught the attention of the island’s tourism department, which used the song as the backdrop of an extensive marketing campaign to attract visitors to the sun-kissed US Virgin Islands.

As Pressure Busspipe continued to build his repertoire, he released the ‘Africa Redemption’ collection of songs, which featured international star, Chronixx. His next album, ‘Red Rose’, rocked and released its attention-grabbing fragrance, which created an endearing pathway that took it all the way onto the Billboard Reggae Album Chart where it peaked at number 8. The singer’s latest album, ‘Heights of Greatness’, has been widening the Rastafarian artiste’s fan base around the globe.

Pressure Busspipe's impact as a prolific musical messenger has been duly acknowledged. He received the Caribbean American Movers and Shaker Award for International Artiste of the Year in 2017. The Atlanta, USA-based singer and his father, Irvin “Brownie” Brown, were honoured by the US Virgin Islands Senate in 2018 for their musical contributions.

You can watch Pressure Busspipe's FULL Star Gazing with Shaun Cain interview here.

https://youtu.be/DGj-51C_-js

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Shaun Cain is a journalist, author of the Reggae Larger than Life Fun and Games Book, voiceover talent and the producer/presenter of the Star Gazing with Shaun Cain Interview Show on the Star Gazing with Shaun Cain YouTube channel.

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Hearts of Talent Set to Beat Loudly inside Wembley Stadium.

By Shaun Cain

Grand finale of the Hearts of Talent is scheduled for the 27th November 2021 at the famous Wembley Stadium in north west London. The Hearts of Talent, the brainchild of businesswoman, Jasmine Dale, has been attracting much attention from national organisations. The show is now operating in partnership with the National Health Service (NHS) North West, The London Metropolitan Police, public communications and promotions company, Clear Channel, The English Football Association (The FA) and Wembley Stadium.

Shaun Cain and Jasmine Dale.

Jasmine Dale is a businesswoman, community activist and visionary. She was born to West Indian parents and raised in north west London. She attended John Kelly School in Neasden. She spent her entire life in Brent, so she feels a strong sense of loyalty and responsibility to the Borough. Jasmine started her own hairdressing and beauty business in Brent. Her business specialises in several African influenced styles such as plaits and cornrows. The Brent native recalls that it was not easy running her business, as the daily challenges could be overwhelming sometimes. However, she persevered and learned how to balance the demands of being an entrepreneur.

Jasmine, whose father served in the British Army for 9 years, revealed that one of the reasons she set up her own business was what she described as the need to be earning money while being of some value to her nation.

For several years, a major social problem began staining the fabric of the nation’s capital. Knife crimes were rampant throughout the London. Stabbings became a mainstay in the news. Almost every day there was a stabbing, which often resulted in someone dying. Common among the statistics were black youths. Despite the intervention of the police, these incidents persisted. After spending many years operating her hairdressing parlour on Blackbird Hill near Wembley in north west London, where some of her customer had been victims of knife crime, she decided to step in.

Jasmine felt that the youths’ attention needed to be refocused on something that will give them a voice by encouraging them to put down the knife and pick up the microphone. As a result, she created the Brent Factor Talent Showcase. The Brent Factor Talent Showcase, which started in Brent in 2018, provided opportunities for the Borough’s young people to showcase their singing, rapping, dancing, spoken word and film-making talents. She told the Star Gazing with Shaun Cain Show that the youths needed to hear positive things about themselves, so that they could be motivated to follow their dreams. She declares, “it’s there for them to build their self-esteem, think differently about employability and find an alternative to being in a gang.”

The show has been receiving support from the business community in Brent and from the Local Authority. The Brent Factor, as it’s commonly called, received entries from across London and other parts of the country. The popularity of the show continued to rise. It subsequently became clear that a more strategic outlook was required. Jasmine sat with her team and brainstormed. Following the meeting, she engaged the services of a marketing agency to help deliver the show’s message more widely, so it reaches more youths across the United Kingdom. As a consequence, the Brent Factor brand was supplanted with the Hearts of Talent. “The Hearts of Talent means a lot to me as a person. It’s a passion project and I believe it will mean a lot to the society, to the younger generations,” Jasmine explains.