MAVADO - G 4 LIFE

Known to the world as Mavado, the singer behind the eerie wails of “Anywayyy!” and “Gangsta for life!&rd quo; which have recently dominated the airwaves was born David Constantine Brooks in the gully called “Cuba”—a micro-ghetto within Kingston’s “Cassava Piece” community, famous to reggae fans from the haunting Augustus Pablo melody of the same name.

In an era when dancehall MCs replaced the ranking dreads of Pablo’s day, the two main influences on the direction of Brooks’ young life were his grandmother and the music of Bounty Killer. {MORE HERE}