First Italian reggae singer to be internationally known, Signore “Alberto Dascola” aka Alborosie, deejay and producer based in Kingston, Jamaica, was born in Sicily in 1977.
In 1992, he created the “Reggae National Tickets” band and rapidly started to be known with titles like “Il mondo” and “Il rimedio” mixing his influences dub, soul, and funk.
In the nineties, his group is the first italian group to appear live at the Sunsplash and Sumfest festivals in Jamaica.
In the year 2000, Alborosie decides to settle in Jamaica. That’s when he meets John Baker (ex-producer of Pm Dawn), and that event is determining in his life :
He is given the management of Baker’s recording studio Geejam in the Jamaica country, and works there as ingeneer and producer, composing riddims for artists like Wyclef, Sisco, Angie Stone and many more. He also recorded artists like Manu Chao and the Nubians when they went to Jamaica for recordings. Alborosie being a talented producer, he soon manages the artists of the Digicel Rising star show.
In 2004, he creates his own label Forward Music under the name Alborosie. Even though he has good featurins (Burning and Lootin with Ky-mani Marley) it is only in 2006 that he gets a word recognition with his biggest hit ‘Herbalist”, which gets rewarded the tittle of best song of the year by David Rodigan.
Alborosie is the first white artist to be distributed by Bob Marley’s label, Tuff Gong.
He composes many riddims for Jamaican artists (among which the XXL riddim) and keeps on recording his own songs alone (Kingston Town, Rastafari Anthem, Slam Bam, Police) or with guests: with U-Roy on “Precious”, Mykal Rose on “Guess who’s coming to dinner” and “Waan the thing”, Sizzla on Meditation or Gentleman on Celebration. In 2008, the Italian Singjay issues the album Soul Pirate -European Tour 2008 Limited edition with songs like Precious, Kingston Town, Rastafari anthem, Natural Mystic with Kimany Marley, Still Blazing, Herbalist and Calling on featuring with Micahel Rose, with the oFirst Italian reggae singer to be ionternationally known, Signore “Alberto Dascola” aka Alborosie, deejay and producer based in Kingston, Jamaica, was born in Sicily in 1977.
In 1992, he created the “Reggae National Tickets” band and rapidly started to be known with titles like “Il mondo” and “Il rimedio” mixing his influences dub, soul, and funk.
In the nineties, his group is the first italian group to appear live at the Sunsplash and Sumfest festivals in Jamaica.
In the year 2000, Alborosie decides to settle in Jamaica. That’s when he meets John Baker (ex-producer of Pm Dawn), and that event is determining in his life :
He is given the management of Baker’s recording studio Geejam in the Jamaica country, and works there as ingeneer and producer, composing riddims for artists like Wyclef, Sisco, Angie Stone and many more. He also recorded artists like Manu Chao and the Nubians when they went to Jamaica for recordings. Alborosie being a talented producer, he soon manages the artists of the Digicel Rising star show.
In 2004, he creates his own label Forward Recordings under the name Alborosie. Even though he has good featurins (Burning and Lootin with Ky-mani Marley) it is only in 2006 that he gets a word recognition with his biggest hit ‘Herbalist”, which gets rewarded the tittle of best song of the year by David Rodigan.
Alborosie is the first white artist to be distributed by Bob Marley’s label, Tuff Gong.
He composes many riddims for Jamaican artists (among which the XXL riddim) and keeps on recording his own songs alone (Kingston Town, Rastafari Anthem, Slam Bam, Police) or with guests: with U-Roy on “Precious”, Michael Rose on “Guess who’s coming to dinner” and “Waan the thing”, Sizzla on Meditation or Gentleman on Celebration. In 2008, the Italian Singjay issues the album Soul Pirate -European Tour 2008 Limited edition with songs like Precious, Kingston Town, Rastafari anthem, Natural Mystic with Ki-many Marley, Still Blazing, Herbalist and Calling on featuring with Michael Rose, with the backing band “Shen Yeng Clan”.
