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BURMUDAN-BORN ROOTS SINGER MAGMA STEPS INTO KINGSTON’S SPOTLIGHT!

 Magma— ELEVEN years after moving to Jamaica, Bermudan roots singer Magma steps into the spotlight at the Countryside Club in Kingston next Thursday. It is where the lanky Rastafarian launches The Mission, his debut album. Magma has recorded for noted producers since settling in reggae land. Among them, Downsound Records’ Josef Bogdanovich, Paul Lowe-Chin and veteran session guitarist Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith. Smith, Magma and Donovan Joseph co-produced most of The Mission’s 13 songs, including Love Life, Walking Down Memory Lane and Money Has No Heart. Though he has had a big hit in Jamaica, Magma believes he has grown as an artiste, working with seasoned musicians like Smith and Roots Radics Band drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott. “Just being ’round the elders I get better at writing songs. I have more ‘overstanding’ of the [recording] studio and … Read entire article »

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