Reuters Shaggy interview
Shaggy was interviewed a couple of hours ago by Reuters about his awesome new album Summer in Kingston, which features the sweet summer vibes of his new single Sugarcane!
They also talked about the upcoming third installment of the Shaggy & Friends charity concert Shaggy’s organizing for the Bustamente Hospital for Children! Shaggy was caught mid-interview by a 5.9 earthquake that shook the US. He commented: “Is it me or is this place shaking right now, why is it shaking? Dude, it’s shaking so much that this thing is actually moving.”
Sugarcane featured on VEVO VEVO features Shaggy’s awesome new Sugarcane video!
“Sir Shaggy, the reggae genius behind classics like summertime slow jam “Angel” and the smooth bump-and-grind diddy “Boombastic” is back with a new song, highlighting the tasty highlights of his hometown. And, thanks to him, we now want candy at 8:30 in the morning. Bags and bags and bags of sugary sugar candy sugar. Or sugar packets. Or candy.
Being seductively straightforward about the whole thing, Shaggy gives a visiting tourist a bag of native treat sugarcane, and effectively pulls her away from friends to show her the good times around town. (Don’t worry, it’s not a kidnapping. She’s chillin’ on the beach and swaying her hips. No one shakes their booty when they’re not having a blast). Her sister goes home and rats her our for staying in Jamaica, and her mom, triumphantly, declares she’s going to Jamaica to get her daughter back. Or so we think… (!!!!!!)
If there’s one thing that’s clear about this video, it’s that “sugarcane” is most definitely not a euphemism for something. Nothing in particular. Nothing at all! It’s just magic and love and happy good times that get everyone together… Take a looksie this guilty pleasure and not at all innuendo-filled summertime singsong, stat.” Read more on VEVO and take a look at the beautiful and hilarious Sugarcane video!
Summer in Kingston
Run away with Shaggy to the islands and get his awesome new album Summer in Kingston now, for just $2.99 on iTunes!
The Fader interviews Shaggy The Fader interviewed Shaggy before the launch of his amazing new album Summer in Kingston. They talked about how Shaggy started in the music business, living in Kingston, making monster hits on small budgets and more! Read the interview on The Fader!
Get Shaggy’s Sugarcane for free today! Shaggy tweets: “Download Sugarcane for free today only on MP3.com!
Of course, you can always get Sugarcane on Shaggy’s awesome new album Summer in Kingston, which is the #1 album on the Billboard Reggae Charts and the iTunes Reggae Albums Charts!
“Just in time for summer, Jamaican dancehall superstar Shaggy (AKA “Mr. Boombastic”) is back with a new album! Titled Summer in Kingston, the new album and lead single “Sugarcane” deliver more of the island dancehall flavor that won Shaggy fans worldwide on past hits like “Boombastic” and “It Wasn’t Me”. After a four years in the making, Summer in Kingston is finally here and is sure to be to the soundtrack to many a hot, sweaty dance party this summer.”
Shaggy NOT at Merah Club, London tonight Shaggy tweeted: “I will not be at that Club in London that is advertising me for tonight. You can see me Sunday at the One Love Peace Festival, Wembley Arena”
Shaggy with Westwood on BBC Radio 1Xtra (today 6 P.M.)
Shaggy will join Vis (in for Westwood) to count down the 6@6 GMT+1 on BBC Radio 1Xtra! Tune in! And check the 1Xtra webcam as well!
Shaggy’s Top 10 on BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra (July 31)
BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra will broadcast Shaggy’s Top 10 on BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 1 at 5 A.M. GMT+1 on Sunday, July 31! Shaggy is performing at the One Love Peace Festival at the Wembley Arena in London later that day. Tune in!
Shaggy on Choice FM
Shaggy was on Choice FM with Max and Kojo this morning and the interview was great fun! Here’s a photo of Shaggy and Max! And one of Shaggy and Kojo! Haven’t heard the interview yet or wanna listen again? We got you covered, listen to part of the interview again on the Choice FM Breakfast podcast!
Shaggy on Daybreak on ITV
Shaggy joined Dan and Kate to talk about his performance at Sunday’s One Love Peace Festival at the Wembley Arena in London. UK: watch the interview video online!
Heatwave Shaggy interview: music, One Love Peace Festival and more
Loukia C interviewed Shaggy for Heatwave ahead of his concert at the One Love Peace Festival on July 31. Was it Shaggy or not? How has Shaggy’s music evolved and what’s the importance of cross-over music? How did Bob Marley’s music influence Shaggy? What can people expect from the One Love Peace Festival? Read the answers and much more in the Heatwave interview!
We’re looking forward to having you here in the UK, are you looking forward to performing?
“Absolutely! It’s been about five years since I have been here and actually done a concert in the UK. So you know, Wembley Arena is a fitting venue for the occasion and I think and the occasion is fitting as it’s for a good cause. The best way to stop violence is through music: the celebration of music is a celebration of peace, love and harmony.”
As you mentioned, the One Love festival is supporting a campaign against gun and knife crime. Is this something you feel strongly about?
“Well there’s always been an issue about these things in dancehall and West Indian culture in itself, so yes. A lot of people have thought of dancehall as the music of violence and guns and homophobia. But I remember when reggae music was the music of sun, fun, peace, love and weed; you know what I mean?
Is it important to cross over?
Absolutely! We have to engage with it. When a hip hop artist goes on tour you see all these big sponsors for them but this doesn’t happen for reggae artists. We need to get a level of consumerism for reggae music.
And your new album Summer In Kingston – what was the stimulation for that?
You’re going to love it and you’re going to live with it. It’s a real feel good album. It’s only got eight tracks and will only be released digitally.
The first single, Sugarcane, is a catchy little number…
Yes! It’s that cheeky, tongue in cheek, ambiguous type of song with a comedic undertone, which is true of Shaggy. When you listen to it it’s uplifting – it’s feel good music. It’s a new Shaggy, with a new vibe.
Shaggy supports new mentoring system
Shaggy and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, are teaming up to launch a new mentoring system, to encourage more Londoners to become mentors, at City Hall at 9.30 AM today!
Shaggy in the UK for the One Love Peace Festival (July 31)
Shaggy, Sean Paul, Busta Rhymes, Gyptian and many more are going to perform at the One Love Peace Festival at the Wembley Arena in London, UK this Sunday, July 31! Shaggy arrived in the UK this morning. He tweeted: “Jus touchdown ina London town!!!”
Did you get your tickets to the One Love Peace Festival yet? Tickets are still available and extra tix have been made available at several ticket stores. Go get your tickets now, the festival is gonna be maaadd!
Tomorrow morning: ITV & Choice FM
Tune in to ITV1 or ITV1 HD tomorrow morning to catch Shaggy live on Daybreak between 6 and 8.30 A.M. GMT+1! He’ll be on the Kojo & Max Breakfast show on Choice FM tomorrow morning, tune in at 6 A.M. GMT+1 to listen to Mr Boombastic live on air! More to be added!
More UK interviews
Voice Online: music, critics, being a role model, what his grandmother taught him and more
Voice Online interviewed about Shaggy’s music, critics, being a role model, lessons he learned from his grandmother, what people can expect from his performance at the One Love Peace Festival and much more!
“IN AN industry where hype and bravado are often on par with actual talent, it’s always refreshing to hear an artist telling it like it is, without the pretence. Case in point: Shaggy.” Read the full interview on Voice Online!
“Once you’re in a position of prominence, you will be a social role model,” he says. “But role models aren’t just celebrities. Role models are in your everyday life. Parents, friends, they’re all role models. But anytime somebody looks up to you, you automatically become a role model. So yeah, I consider myself a role model.”
Phina Oruche of BBC Radio Merseyside interviews Shaggy for Upfront
Phina Oruche interviewed Shaggy about his performance at the One Love Peace Festival in London on July 31 and his new album Summer in Kingston. Here’s the interview audio of part 2 (Shaggy is featured at around 25 minutes into the show, after Luv Me Luv Me)!
Daddy Turbo of ICRFM: Summer in Kingston & One Love Peace Festival
Daddy Turbo of ICRFM interviewed Shaggy about his new album Summer in Kingston and performing at the One Love Peace Festival in London (for which you can win meet & greet tix on the festival site), listen to the interview audio here!
Teen celebrity & showbiz reporter Eve-Yasmine interviews Shaggy for Superstar Magazine
Teen celebrity & showbiz reporter Eve-Yasmine interviewed Shaggy about his style, swagger, confidence, kids, music, new album, the One Love Peace Festival and more… Read the interview on Super Star Magazine!
A quote from the interview: How would describe the sound and special style for this new Summer in Kingston album? What made you decide to go for a digital album?
Summer in Kingston
I just wanted to create a real feel good album, when you’ve been doing it for as much time I as I have, you want to re-invent and do something that still lives. It’s a digital album and the best part is, I’m giving you a recession price – $2.99! A sign of a appreciation more so than anything, I just wanted to get everybody back, involved, feelin’ it and lovin’ it.
Next year: physical cd release with more songs to be added!
It’s a 2 year project that we are having, we will eventually put the hard copy out with more tracks to it. At the moment there are 8. Sugarcane is the first single which is doing really well over here in the states, lots of buzz, lots of vibes…. we’re doing our thing, so fingers crossed. Read more.
Unique Radio: Shaggy’s music, One Love Peace Festival, new album and more
Shaun Powerz of Unique Radio interviewed Shaggy! They talked about Shaggy’s songs from Oh Carolina to Intoxication, his upcoming show at the One Love Peace Festival and his upcoming album Summer in Kingston, to be released on July 19 on Ranch Entertainment! And Shaggy says he’s going on a world tour next year, yay!!
Tellstream Radio: new album, launch, charity, 2012 Olympics and more
Big John New000 interviewed Shaggy for Tellstream Radio about Shaggy’s new album, album & video launch, charity concerts, the 2012 Olympics and much more!
Shaggy & Friends charity concert 2011
Shaggy told Big John New000 he’s going to launch a Shaggy & Friends charity concert again this year! In 2009 and 2010, Shaggy organized concerts through the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation benefiting the Bustamente Hospital for Children, and the proceeds provided the Bustamente Hospital for Children with much needed equipment!
Jamaica Village at the Olympics 2012
Shaggy is the spokesperson for the Jamaica Village at the Olympics 2012 in the UK! The Jamaica Village will feel like Jamaica and it’ll have 10 nights of concerts! Shaggy, who performed alongside Barrington Levy at the Jamaica Village Launch (photos), says: “Jamaica will run the place!”
Unfortunately, Jamaica Village was canceled due to lack of funding.
Check back later for more interviews – or you can add a link to another interview in the comments!
Grammy-winning Jamaican artist Shaggy took dancehall crossover to unprecedented heights, first with 1995’s platinum Boombastic album and then again in 2001 with the six-times-platinum Hotshot, which featured dancehall’s first Number One pop single. This year, in time for the beach comes his seventh release: Summer in Kingston (available digitally now).
To celebrate the release, Mr. Boombastic closed down the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, for a massive free block party last Saturday, performing alongside dancehall artists Bounty Killer and Elephant Man. Backstage, he spoke with Rolling Stone about breaking records, joining the Marines and making dancehall go pop.
Speaking about his charity work for the Bustamente Hospital for Children in Jamaica: “All of it was formed on impulse, because of what I saw at a hospital one day. I went to visit someone there and saw the state of the place. I saw this little girl with a bullet lodged in her head and I said, “I’ve got to do something.” So I said, “I’m gonna do a concert – in 8 weeks. We’re gonna make it happen and failure is not an option.” They told me I needed a foundation, so we did it – simple as that.”
Shaggy, who hails from Rae Town in Kingston, Jamaica, returned to his dancehall roots with Church Heathen after his mainstream success with songs like Angel, It Wasn’t Me and so on. He says: “I came back to dancehall because I have naysayers, and I always want to silence them. I remember after “Hotshot” and “It Wasn’t Me,’ everybody was saying, “Yeah, but it’s not dancehall,” and, “He can’t do dancehall,’ and some were going as far as saying, “He’s not Jamaican.” But I started from dancehall, from sound systems! So I had to come back here and prove that.”
Now he’s back with an awesome new album, entitled Summer in Kingston. Asked about Summer in Kingston, he says: “It’s a feel-good album, a fan appreciation album for a recession price, as I call it: $2.99. Eight tracks of eargasmic pleasure, digital only. A hard copy would mean paying for distribution, packaging and so on, but if it’s digital you can make it as low as possible so all of your fans can get it.”
Did you get Shaggy’s amazing new album Summer in Kingston yet? It’s an 8 track feel-good album with great summer vibes, available for a time-limited special price of just $2.99 on iTunes!
“I got to get some new pages in my passport,” says Shaggy in a recent interview with Billboard.com, “I constantly tour every year, around the clock.” Billboard caught up with diamond-selling reggae artist Shaggy and talked to Bob McLynn of Crush Management, the New York based firm (Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Train and more) that now manages Shaggy.
“The guy really is an icon out there,” says Bob McLynn of Crush Management, who signed Shaggy because “Shaggy had more good songs than any other new artist we’ve ever seen. You listen to any rhythm and pop station, and every summer you’re still going to hear some old Shaggy songs,” McLynn adds. “He’s still current in terms of his songs are still getting played… And when you hear the new stuff, its like, ‘OK, we could do something with this because it’s that good.'”
Shaggy’s awesome new album “Summer in Kingston” will be a digital-only release and will arrive aggressively priced at $2.99 through iTunes, Amazon and other major digital outlets, at least until Labor Day. Billboard.com writes about Sugar Cane and Just Another Girl, two tracks on the great new album: “Sugar Cane has all the hallmarks of a Shaggy summer smash: an island vibe, a naughty double-entendre.” “The album’s other sure shot is Just Another Girl, a roots-reggae banger featuring Jamaican star Tarrus Riley singing a tasty vintage hook.”
Did you get Shaggy’s awesome new album Summer in Kingston yet? It’s available on iTunes for just $2.99, get it now and your summer will be extra hot!
Read the full interview and review on Billboard.com!
Shaggy talks about his new album Summer in Kingston, his off the hook new single Sugarcane and his favorite videos to chillax to on YouTube Music Tuesdays, check out the interview and playlist!
Did you get Shaggy’s awesome new album Summer in Kingston yet? It’s available for a time-limited special recession price of $2.99 on iTunes!
The playlist features:
Beyoncé – Run The World
Rihanna – Man Down
Bruno Mars – Just the Way You Are
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Inner Circle – Sweat (A La La Long)
Shabba Ranks feat. Maxi Priest – House Call
Chaka Demus & Pliers – Murder She Wrote
Super Cat – Ghetto Red Hot
UB40 – Red Red Wine
Gregory Isaacs (Night Nurse)
Shaggy on WPIX (today)
New York Shaggy fans! Shaggy will be on the Morning News on WPIX this morning! Tune in to WPIX at 8.40 AM to watch Shaggy live!
Watch the WPIX Morning News live!
Wanna watch the WPIX Morning News live? Here’s the link to the live stream! And here are the videos of Shaggy on WPIX!
Shaggy interview about his new album Summer in Kingston and performing at the Martin Luther King Jr. concert series at Wingate Fields, Brooklyn, New York on August 22! And he tasted deliciously looking jerk chicken and jerk lobster for the item on the upcoming Jamaican Jerk Festival NY!
Reeds Festival, Pfäffikon, Switzerland (July 23)
Swiss Shaggy fans, it’s gonna be your lucky day again soon! Shaggy is headlining the second day of the Reeds Festival in Pfäffikon, Switzerland on July 23! You can get tickets on StarTicket!
Shaggy on Lopez Tonight (July 26)
US Shaggy fans, listen up! Shaggy will perform at Lopez Tonight on TBS on July 26! Don’t miss out and tune in on July 26, it’s gonna be great!
One Love Peace Festival, Wembley Arena, London, UK (July 31)
Shaggy, Sean Paul, Busta Rhymes, Gyptian, Ky-Mani Marley, John Holt and more will perform at the One Love Peace Festival at the Wembley Arena in London on July 31! Tickets are available at several ticket outlets.
Win meet & greet tix at the One Love Peace Festival
Would you like to meet the artists? And win tickets to the festival? You can win meet & greet tickets at the One Love Peace Festival site this week!
Win regular tix to the One Love Peace Festival
Would you like to get free entry to the festival? Then enter these ticket competitions as well: Urban World, South Harrow, Kilburn Times and Klick Radio!
