Jamaican artists cause turbulence in local music scene
The music event is being billed as the “Trodding Down Corruption” reggae concert…complete with a host of imported artists and their local counterparts. This morning the Jamaican crew arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport and News Five was part of the welcoming committee on the tarmac.
Janelle Chanona, Reporting
They arrived by private plane direct from Kingston, Jamaica.
Show headliners are reggae artists Fantan Mojah and Turbulence, but tonight they are pushing a message more along the lines of Christmas: like peace and love.
Fantan Mojah
?My music dah fu uplift the people, nothing negative, nothing fu mislead them or lead them astray. Mama hungry, we defend the poor. We say tek nothing at all…so we ah talk to the Almighty, we say give Thanks and praise. So we all have to give thanks and praise cause it?s not we who build ourselves, we is not a robot, it?s the Almighty build us. We all human beings, so just give thanks. So my music give fi uplift everyone and I wah go all over the world fu promote righteousness. Selassie high.?
The performers will be joined on the stage by the Positive Vibz Band and fellow artists Nanko and Slizer.
Member, Positive Vibz Band
?What we are going to do is just let the positive vibes flow in Belize, so far we have done two hundred and fifty shows in the last five years and we have never failed.?
Slizer
?Every man weh love King Selassie, Jah Rastafari. And fu the youths weh ah push crime and violence, (sings)…you got to stay far from war and crime, youth man you got to be wise. We are living inna serious times.?
Artist
?More love, more life for the people them. See Crime, we no want that no more right now, more love, more respect.?
Turbulence
?No guns, no bombs, just come out, support. One love, one heart, one destiny. (Talking foreign language)…Jah Rastafari.?
Fantan Mojah
?Me deh yah and whole ah we deh ya same way with the love, so come to the show, bring yuh Queen and don?t bring no machine, just come out come full draw yuself because we go dry Babylon, no end ah dry round here. We full the joy, give thanks and praise Selassie high. Channel Five, stay alive.?
Taydron Bennett, Organizer, Exile Promotions
?People normally buy tickets the day the person comes in or the night at the show. So everybody, they come in, chartered flight, noh pan no ticket, chartered flight. They deh in yah right now, so unu go right now goh buy unu ticket and I think the response wah good from the people dem cause, (singing)…only Jah love can bless me through my days. Yu need fu get yu ticket right now.?
This morning?s official welcome also included a blaring sound system which accompanied their Cadillac convoy.
Janelle Chanona reporting for News Five.
Major sponsors of the concert are Viper Tours, Exile Promotions, Bizzy Bee, and G. Kee and Sons Bakery. Doors at the City Centre open at nine and tickets are forty in advance, fifty at the door.
