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Once upon a time in
Jamaica ‘Land We Love’, a famous female artist of the
eighties (Shirley McLean) and a renown radio personality
(Owen “O.B” Brown) came together and brought a bouncing
baby boy into the world; they called him Gavin. From
birth, Gavin has been submerged in and surrounded by
music as not only his parents but many of his relatives
and family friends have all been intimately involved in
the music fraternity. Commercially; his cousin Toots,
from Toots and The Maytals, (who many credit as the
first person to use the word “Reggae” in song) and the
UK based Me&You have been the most successful of the lot
thus far.
Gavin began showing much musical promise from as early
as age 5 when he began playing the drums at an
advanced/semi-professional level at the Jamaica School
of Music under the tutelage of Sparrow Martin, Carl
Ayton (who he later worked with) and many others. He
began honing his stage craft in 1991 as a solo act by
performing at school concerts, barbeques, etc. and was
even a member of the Kingston College Chapel Choir. In
1995, Gavin made his first recording and landed his
first live radio interview with top Jamaican disk jock
Richie B on RJR.
The
subsequent years saw Gavin emerging as a profound
writer/lyricist and at one point; he was even playing
the guitar. However, it wasn’t until 1998 that Gavin
began making deliberate and intentional steps towards
being a successful full-time Artist and adopted
“Gavinchi” as a moniker/stage name. Gavinchi's first
three recordings were in rotation on all of Jamaica’s
major radio stations and one of them has earned him two
live performances on national television in Jamaica.
To date, Gavinchi has graced top notch websites such as
wireimage.com and dailyceleb.com, among others; he has
formed alliances with multi-national giants such as D&G
Ting(Pepsi Americas) and The LRG Clothing Company, been
interviewed by several major media houses such as BET,
BBC, CNN, TimeWarner, RJR, IrieFM & RETv, made several
red carpet appearances (including the Soul Train and BET
Awards), performed at various colleges, universities,
festivals and events in Jamaica, various parts of
Europe, Canada's East Coast, The U.S West Coast plus
Hawaii. He has headlined and sold out venues previously
packed by legends such as The Beatles, Willie Nelson,
Kool And The Gang, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Eek-A-Mouse and
Pato Baton plus performed alongside the likes of Toots
Hibbert, Yellowman, Ernie Smith, Jr. Marvin, Fully
Fullwood, Beenie Man, Baby Cham, Barrington Levy, Mykal
Rose, Xzibit, Anthony B, New Zealand's Katch A Fire,
Hawaii's Ooklah The Moc, B.U.B.z and many others. He has
worked alongside Grammy Award Winning and Multi-Platinum
Artists and Producers like Krayzie Bone (Bone
Thugs-n-Harmony) and Dany Tomas; some of Jamaica’s
finest musical talents, such as Sly Dunbar, Freddie
McGreggor, Big Youth, Robbie Lyn, Dwight Pinkney (Roots
Radics), Steve Golding (Peter Tosh’s Word, Sound & Power
Band), Keith Francis, Gibby Morrison, Charmaine Bowman
and many more. No matter what, his style is always
unmistakably Reggae at its core. Gavinchi has ushered in
a new genre of Music; Sub- Stancehall and is its first
valiant representative. Sub-Stancehall is Dancehall
music with Substance, not mere rhymes and punch lines.
The true substance of Authentic Reggae Music is alive
and well in all his songs.
We are all witnessing the rise of a new era. Ladies and
gentlemen, the future is here; as a matter of fact,
Gavinchi Brown is the past and future wrapped up in our
beautiful present. What we are seeing here is that One
with God is a majority; as all of Gavin's efforts and
accomplishments thus far were all possible because of
close friends and family (Phenix Records), hard work,
perseverance and Divine Intervention. So in addition to
coining the term “Sub-Stancehall” he has also given
birth to the title “One-Drop Preneur”; as he has proven
to be Reggae’s first true self-started entrepreneur of
the millennium. Gavinchi Brown is really a self-made
artist/business success story. Time is the master and
ultimate test of all that is; so it will undoubtedly
prove how great Gavinchi Brown is. |