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Shocking Murray Promotes New Album On European Tour‏

After completing a successful second album titled ‘Troddin’ On’ and a music video for his newest single Johnny, reggae artiste Shocking Murray said that he’s confident the public will show ample interest in them, as he continues to bid for that elusive ‘big break’ in the local music industry.

The deejay, who has already established himself as a recognized act on the European reggae circuit, has found it somewhat difficult to replicate that success in his homeland even though his first recorded single Drum, was released in 1990 at Black Scorpio studio in Kingston.

However, the Portland-native said he’s is beaming with confidence that this will be the year his career will take off to higher heights in his native homeland. “Nowadays I am more confident but I am not going to be easily satisfied, because the sky is the limit,” he said.

The multi-talented musician is currently on tour in Europe, where he’s promoting new album. Shocking Murray said that he’s very optimistic about the album’s success and that the listening public can expect a slew of positive songs coming from it.

“The album was released a week ago, so I guess it needs a few more weeks to see what improvement it will bring (to my career). This is my second album, the first one was released in 2006, but the public can expect nothing but a positive vibe from it,” he said.

On his current tour, he added: “Going on tour is always impressive, that’s how I get to expose my music to all different kind of people. To see so much different people, from all different races, come out and show you this love for your music is really an amazing feeling. I just wanna to continue producing quality music for my fans.”

Shocking Murray said he’s also working on some new materials which is set to be released later this year.

Veteran Deejay Papa Biggy Drops So Nice‏

Veteran dancehall artiste Papa Biggy is known throughout the world for his cultural dancehall tunes and his strong stage presence. He made his foray onto the local music scene over two decades ago, when he won the title of National Deejay champion in 1982 in the J.C.D.C’s deejay competition.

The very witty deejay who now resides in Connecticut has never looked back since winning the competition, which also earned him a scholarship at the Jamaica School of Music.

He recently teamed up with reggae music newcomer Monni-K to record a sizzling duet titled So Nice on the Lifeforce Production Label. This track is the follow up to his hit single Your Dreams, which was released late last year. Pappy Biggy describes the new song as a celebration of love and relationships.

So Nice was released two weeks ago and has already begun to create quite a buzz in places such as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It is also receiving strong airplay locally on radio stations including IRIE FM, HITZ 92 FM, VYBZ FM and LINKZ FM.

So Nice is available for download on popular internet music sites including Itunes, Amazon.com, CD Baby.com, Napster and Lime Wire. Pappy Biggy has also been very busy performing all over the U.S. he recently did a series of shows in Florida and Connecticut, which also featured legendary Trinidadian Calypso star The Mighty Sparrow, Pat Kelly and Errol Dunkley.

Ammoye is Canada’s Female Artist of the Year!

If you had asked Ammoye 2 years ago what her musical life would look like in 2011, she wouldn’t have been able to give you an answer. Today, she smiles humbly as the news continues to sink in that she is the 2011-2012 Female Artist of the Year.

The honor comes from the recently held Achievement Awards for Reggae music which took place in Toronto on Saturday June 4th, 2011. “I am so happy,” said Ammoye. “I’m happy that we were able to achieve this. We did it as a team so this award is for all of us!”

Winning the award comes as a pre-curser to Ammoye’s busy schedule. Her latest studio projects which are produced by Danny Maestro, Kemar ‘Flava’ McGregor and Tony Anthony, sees the singer give fans more one drop Reggae. The artist also has a busy performance schedule as she takes the stage on three of Canada’s most high profile events being Jamaica Day – Toronto, Jambana and the Montreal Reggae Festival. She also leaves for Serbia’s Exit Festival where she will perform for 150,000 fans over three days. It doesn’t stop there!

Ammoye will be releasing an EP in September called ‘Bad Gyal’ which is being executive produced by Dubmatix. The EP will be the prelude to her album which is scheduled to be released in 2012, and builds on the heels of the success of her album ‘Haffi Win’ which was produced by Ottawa’s Rise Ashen for the Balanced Records label.

Ammoye will be one of the featured artists performing at the NXNE event in Toronto at Lula Lounge on June 15th! Media can preview / play / download Ammoye's debut hit single "Lost Love" produced by Courtney John.