Upcoming song & video: Shaggy & Leo Aberer record “Football is My Life” for the UEFA EURO 2012!
Shaggy and Leo Aberer recorded “Football is my life” for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2012 Championships! Chili TV visited them on set in New York and reports!
Chili TV: Shaggy & Leo Aberer “Football is My Life” interview
Wanna know more about how they got to work together? Visit Leo Aberer.com for an article with photos by Krone and Orf.at for the story behind this duet!
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Shaggy on the cover of L3 Magazine
Shaggy is featured on the front cover of the August issue of L3 Magazine! The magazine features an eight pages interview article, in which Shaggy talks about his new album and much more!
What would you be most surprised to find about Shaggy and crew? Wanna know the deets about Shaggy’s new collaborations and songs? How did Shaggy’s awesome new feel good album Summer in Kingston come about? What does Sugarcane mean?
Read this and much more in the great L3 Magazine!
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.”
Watch the interview video on Reuters: “Shaggy continues to rock up the charts”
Reuters Shaggy interview during the August 23 earthquake
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 – Sugarcane
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!
Read the full interview on Rolling Stone.com!
First single on Summer in Kingston: Shaggy – Sugarcane (Extended Video Version)
Sneak peek: Shaggy feat. Tarrus Riley – Just Another Girl
Check Shaggy’s official Facebook for a link to a sneak peek of one of the tracks on the awesome upcoming album Summer in Kingston and an interview about the album title, the Sugarcane video and more! Wow!
Shaggy just tweeted: “Summer in Kingston sneak peek listen to “Just Another Girl” ft. Tarrus Riley on Boomshots!”
Just Another Girl is the extra-heavy lead cut off Shaggy’s Summer In Kingston, which is set to be released on July 19 on iTunes and other digital outlets only! Just Another Girl features the great Tarrus Riley. Singy Singy reprises a classic Ken Boothe hook—with its haunting contradiction of trying to get over a girl while you’re still singing about her—and the DJ’s skills are on point as usual. You can front on Shaggy if you like, but reggae’s biggest living hit-maker just keeps knockin’ them out the park. Run that!
Summer in Kingston album release party
Shaggy’s awesome upcoming album Summer in Kingston and the video to his off the hook new single Sugarcane will be launced with a massive party and free concert at the Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston on July 16 in Shaggy’s home country, Jamaica! New Kingston will be on lockdown for this massive event and MTV and Rolling Stone will be there to cover the massive party! Shaggy, Chino, Agent Sasco, Di Genius, Stone Love, Renaissance, the Tantrum Band and Ity and Fancy Cat will perform at the event, that starts at 7 PM.
Boomshots Shaggy interview
The Boomshots article features an interview with Shaggy as well! Shaggy talks about how he wants the Sugarcane video to showcase the “splendidness” of Jamaica. Read the interview and listen to Just Another Girl on Boomshots!
The Making of Shaggy feat. Pitbull – Fired Up (video)!
Wanna take an exclusive look behind the scenes and see how Shaggy’s hot collaboration with Pitbull came about? Here’s your chance! Video of The Making of Fired Up! The video features raw footage of both Shaggy live on stage and in the studio and Pitbull in the recording session.
The Making Of Shaggy feat. Pitbull – Fired Up (produced by Costi Ionita)!
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