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SilverStarSound · Busy Signal Dancehall Resume 2019

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It is time to get busy with Busy Signal! “Remember when, way back then, positivity was the message we send from the root to the stem/its been so so so long we don’t listen to some old reggae songs play the music again, reggae music again.”

Wit, lyrical genius, musical innovation and creativity are just terms that can be used to describe Jamaican born reggae/dancehall artist Busy Signal. SilverStarSound explores part of his resume on a prolific career well led so far and one which shows no signs of stopping for the dancehaller.
Born Glendale Gordon but later changed his name to Reanno Gordon. Busy Signal was born on January 24, 1982 and raised alongside three brothers and a sister by his devoutly Christian mother in the St. Ann’s parish community of Brown’s Town, Busy’s first exposure to music, like so many Jamaican youth, was in the church, singing hymns.
At night, he often snuck out of the house to hear such preeminent sound systems as Renaissance and Bass Odyssey, fascinated by the deejays’ voices that boomed through the towering assemblage of speakers. Busy made the requisite links with several sound systems in hopes of becoming a recording artist and gained a modicum of studio experience voicing dub plates for Renaissance and Kilimanjaro. “Getting into the studio to do my first recording, I linked up with Fatta one of the engineers from Renaissance, then it was just on the rise from there,” Busy recalls. “I was trying to learn, trying to get it in the right context, melody, the verses, trying to know what is a hook, the importance of breath control, metaphor and word play, just trying to get better towards what I want to be in life.”
Busy took a step towards reaching his goals with the release of his first single “Shake It Fast”, voiced on Renaissance’s Tunda Clap riddim. His breakthrough, however, arrived in 2005 with the hits “Not Going Down” and the self produced “Step Out”, the title track of Busy’s critically acclaimed 2006 debut album released on Greensleeves Records.
Bounty Killer mentored the early stages of Busy’s career and provided the aspiring deejay with his first opportunity to display his talent in front of a Jamaican audience. Busy’s association with the Killer led artists’ consortium called The Alliance brought him further renown.
This resume mix captures his knack for lyrics and creating out of the box musical dialogues while infusing traditional Caribbean music with afro-beats, soca, edm and hip-hop. From his staple Caribbean and international hits such as  hits “Watch Out For This (Bumaye),”to hits like hits such as “Come Over”, “Bedroom Bully,” “One More Night” and more, Busy Signal remains dancehall’s iconic versatility artist.
We Step Out to his earlier indomitable “Not Going Down”hit song. We find his debut album Loaded’s bitter commentary on poverty and violence on the track, “These Are The Days.” Nah Go A Jail recollects Busy’s brief incarceration in the US.
Not one to sideline the ladies, his hypnotic flows on tracks like Shake It Fast, Bedroom Bully and One More Night expresses appreciation for is wide female fan-base.
The deejay has worked with both established and Jamaica’s finest upcoming producers including ” Clayton “Claybeat” Morrison and Carlington “Karl” Morrison, Karim “DJ Karim” Thompson, Kirk “Kirkledove” Bennet, Kalonji D’Aguilar, T’Jean Bennett and Andrew Myrie for UIM Records and, arguably, contemporary dancehall’s most successful hit maker, Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor. “I get real work done with young producers, no disrespect to the big producers but I just try to give young producers an opportunity to get real work and real production out there,” says Busy.