Multi-talented singer-songwriter Mista Majah P has become the first Jamaican artiste to release a homosexual tolerance reggae album. The lyrical focus of the album is to liberate the homophobic and celebrate the LGBT (lesbian gay bi-sexual transgender) experience.
The release of this album will hopefully build his fan base and get his music heard by more people than ever, especially in his native home of Jamaica. The CD, Tolerance, consists of 11 original songs, each providing a combination of his melodious vocals and heartfelt lyrics. The rhythmic undercurrent bears treatment to roots-reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, pop and R&B.
Tolerance was recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Shaolin Studio in Hayward California, Los Angeles and all songs are written, performed and produced by Majah P. The theme of the album underlies the changes he has gone through in recent years with marriage, a new son and becoming an American citizen.
It was these changes of status that allowed him this opportunity to explore, through his music, the experience of all who have suffered hate, intolerance, discrimination and bullying because of their sexual orientation. Tolerance reveals raw lyrical emotions, pulsating drum-and-base reggae rifts, plus the stunning array of influences that have found their way into his music.
Mista Majah P was already soaked with the red gold and green roots of reggae music when he migrated to Toronto, Canada in 1982 and carried with him the new sound ‘Reggae DanceHall Roots”, which he unleashed on the Canadian reggae music scene.
He was nominated 10 times for the Canadian Reggae Music Award, winning on four occasions, including ‘Entertainer of the Year’ in 1997.
He has performed all over the United States, Canada, Jamaica and England and brings to the live stage his special brand of total entertainment.
Also an accomplished actor, Mista Majah P has appeared in three feature films including the highly acclaimed “Cop and a Bad Man” performing on screen and writing and performing one of the sound tracks. He has appeared in over ten music videos and released over 12 music CDs.
With the release of Tolerance, Mista Majah P has broken new ground by taking on the cultural intolerance of a section of his native Jamaican society, and the LGBT rights debates in the halls of the US Congress.
LYME TYME REPORT 8/20/2011
Ninja Man Knocked Unconscious In Prison RCS has learned that the police are now investigating an incident in which the popular dancehall artiste was “knocked unconscious” by a prisoner at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston. The incident reportedly occurred about two weeks ago. Kevin Maitland, the accused, has been charged with unlawful wounding.
Allegations are that on August 3, the deejay was walking to his cell when he was attacked. It is reported that Ninja Man was hit in the head with a stone that the accused had concealed in a sock. Ninja Man and Maitland are to return to court on MoNDAY August 22.
Ninja Man, 45, has been in custody since 2009, and is awaiting trial for murder. The deejay and his 20-year-old son, Janiel Ballentine, along with Clayton Dennis and Seymour Samuels are charged with the murder of 20-year-old Ricardo Johnson, a resident of Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. Johnson was killed in a drive-by shooting on March 16, 2009.
BUJU BANTON Jamaican Reggae star Buju Banton is now in the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and has not yet been transferred to a prison in Mississippi where he will serve his sentence.
Two weeks ago the artiste was scheduled to be transferred from the Pinellas County Jail in Florida to the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi, but checks with the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons today revealed that he was not at that facility.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons does not reveal the whereabouts of inmates who are in transit for security reasons, but a source close to Banton said contact had been made with him and the artiste had confirmed that he was now housed at the FTC.
The FTC is an administrative facility housing male and female holdover offenders. The prison is located on the western edge of Will Rogers World Airport in Western Oklahoma.
A check on the Bureau of Prisons website listed Banton, registered as Mark Anthony Myrie as inmate number 86700-004, his release date as unknown and his location as in transit. Myrie was found guilty of drug related charges and sentenced to 10 years in a Tampa, Florida court in February. A first trial ended in a mistrial after a panel of jurors could not unanimously decide on his guilt or innocence
Multi-talented singer-songwriter Mista Majah P has become the first Jamaican artiste to release a pro homosexual reggae album. The lyrical focus of the album is to liberate the homophobic and celebrate the LGBT (lesbian gay bi-sexual transgender) experience.
The release of this album will hopefully build his fan base and get his music heard by more people than ever, especially in his native home of Jamaica. The CD, Tolerance, consists of 11 original songs, each providing a combination of his melodious vocals and heartfelt lyrics. The rhythmic undercurrent bears treatment to roots-reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, pop and R&B.
Tolerance was recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Shaolin Studio in Hayward California, Los Angeles and all songs are written, performed and produced by Majah P. The theme of the album underlies the changes he has gone through in recent years with marriage, a new son and becoming an American citizen.
It was these changes of status that allowed him this opportunity to explore, through his music, the experience of all who have suffered hate, intolerance, discrimination and bullying because of their sexual orientation. Tolerance reveals raw lyrical emotions, pulsating drum-and-base reggae rifts, plus the stunning array of influences that have found their way into his music.
Mista Majah P was already soaked with the red gold and green roots of reggae music when he migrated to Toronto, Canada in 1982 and carried with him the new sound ‘Reggae DanceHall Roots”, which he unleashed on the Canadian reggae music scene.
He was nominated 10 times for the Canadian Reggae Music Award, winning on four occasions, including ‘Entertainer of the Year’ in 1997.
He has performed all over the United States, Canada, Jamaica and England and brings to the live stage his special brand of total entertainment.
Also an accomplished actor, Mista Majah P has appeared in three feature films including the highly acclaimed “Cop and a Bad Man” performing on screen and writing and performing one of the sound tracks. He has appeared in over ten music videos and released over 12 music CDs.
With the release of Tolerance, Mista Majah P has broken new ground by taking on the cultural intolerance of a section of his native Jamaican society, and the LGBT rights debates in the halls of the US Congress.
