Jamaican dancehall superstar “Sean Paul” Henriques, will host his first live-streaming concert of 2021 on May 8. He will drop the second of two new albums this month also.
The new album, Scorcha, follows on the heels of the Live N Livin album.
The Grammy-Award winning artiste has been back home since February 2020, after his Australian tour was cancelled due to the covid19 pandemic. Utilising the extra time productively in studio and for spending time with his wife, Jodi, and two young children, Levi and Remi, Paul is ready to share the stage and his new music with his fans and followers, while setting a new precedent and advocating for more collaborations among artistes in the dancehall fraternity.
Intent on showing the world that dancehall is flourishing and still birthing stars, Live N Livin showcases over 20 artists on one body of work, including veteran artists like Buju Banton, Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, Busy Signal and Mavado, as well as the younger generation of artists such as Chi Ching Ching, Intence, Skillibeng and Govana, and more.
Commenting on Live N Livin in an interview with Overtime Media, Paul said, "It was important to me to show that in our genre of dancehall, we don't need to clash in order to attain the spotlight. We don't need to divide our fans to attain the rotations on the airwaves or streams. Over the years myself, Shaggy – and more recently Koffee, Shenseea and others are tapping into the world stage and we are not clashing our co-workers, nor are we dividing our fans. This album Live N Livin is an album I hold very dear to my heart because it shows the effort of collaboration over confrontation.”
[caption id="attachment_888464" align="alignnone" width="819"] Jamaican dancehall superstarSean Paul's will host his first live-streaming concert of 2021 – on May 8 from Jamaica. - Photo courtesy Fernando F Hevia[/caption]
Sean Paul reiterated his call for mainstream acts to respect the dancehall genre, while saluting Bajan bombshell, Rihanna for her honourable mentions of – and the respect she has shown to the genre.
“How come when Drake or Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran make dancehall-oriented songs, they just call it their music and don’t give any credit to the genre?” he questioned, while explaining his views on the current state of the reggae and dancehall movement worldwide.
“Ah dat me wha kno... Is ah weird hypocrisy thing dat... But me always try fi say: if you think dancehall has gone somewhere, just listen to Bieber music…
“My answer to that is that reggae and dancehall is way bigger than it ever was right now. Funny enough, first time I go Trinidad, I expected to only hear soca everywhere here, but then I realise is only two or three months it really blow up like that, but then the rest of the year, you listen to popular music and popular music is a lot of reggae and dancehall in Trinidad still. So the genre is alive and well, it’s just some times when the numbers of the outside people from all over go down a bit, it seems like it has gone somewhere… but even in those
