Christian dancehall artists cut CD
They call themselves “Da Combo” and a duo of young men from the Cayo District have pooled their musical talents both to entertain and to inspire their audience. Caleb Ortega and Jacob Diggz today released a new album of ten original dancehall songs that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Diggz told News 5 that even though the CD features a genre that is not always conducive to spirituality, the words of the songs convey a message that should inspire young people.
Jacob Diggz
?It?s the first I think, dance hall, hip hop, reggae, Spanish, English collaboration I think that touch the nation. It is very positive oriented, you know. I am bigging up Jesus Christ and make people know how basically he is. It?s a word, a message to the youths. And really try to open their eyes that there is a way out. There is a way out off struggling and living a false mentality of lost hope, because it?s not true. There is a way out. There is hope, you know.?
?The difference in Belize is in fact that most of the dancehall music that we do here happens to be from music that is not generated from Belize. It?s generated from other sources, and other Caribbean nations.?
Patrick Jones
?But isn?t dancehall, dancehall??
Jacob Diggz
?No, I don?t feel so. I think there is music is music if you want to generate it as that. But music is also dictated from what you listen to and the words. So whatever sound is behind it is not what is really what?s pushing an individual, it?s the words that the person is listening, that they act out and they portray in their life. If I am going to hear go sleep with Tom, Dick and Harry and go kill this one and stab this one, then that is what I am going to portray in my life, disregarding what the music in the background is. But if I am going to talk about benefiting my life changing my life and enhancing my future making a better way for future children and my future generation to come, then I think that?s what?s going to be instilled in one?s mind.?
“Da Combo” sells for twenty-seven dollars and is available at most music stores countrywide. The album was produced and mastered at Shamax Studios in Belmopan.
