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Gavinchi Brown

Kingston, Saint Andrew, Jamaica | SELF

Kingston, Saint Andrew, Jamaica | SELF
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"Gavinchi Brown carrying on the legacy of legends"

Gavinchi Brown is one of the brightest stars in the Reggae Industry, a "One- Drop Preneur" and definitely a
sure contender for the smartest working man in show business. His positive uplifting Sub-Stance Hall
(Dancehall with Substance) Music, D.I.Y (Do It Yourself) mentality and business structure has made
many other Jamaicans and Reggae Artists look at the business differently. Gavinchi is from an
extremely musical family and has been surrounded by music from birth.
His father, Owen Brown has the longest running Reggae Radio show
in Jamaica and has helped shape the careers of many artistes from Bob
Marley and Garnet Silk to Shabba Ranks and Beenie Man.
His mother, Shirley McLean is a 1980s Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall
icon known for supporting
women's rights. His uncle
and aunts (Me & You) hit
the British Top of the Pop
Charts in the 1980s as
well and his cousin Toots
Hibbert is known as the
first Artist to use the word
reggae in a song.
Gavinchi started
performing as a child in
1991, made his first
recording in 1995. He has
since been touring
consistently from 2007 in
support of his debut album "Release Di Truth... VOLUME ONE" which is
scheduled for release soon.
He has performed for a wide a variety of audiences; festivals, clubs,
colleges and various venues in Hawaii, America's West Coast, The East
Coast of Canada, various parts of Europe and his hometown Jamaica.
This has so far earned him business deals and sponsorship from
companies such as Pepsi and The LRG Clothing Company. He has also landed interviews on B.E.T, The
BBC, CNN, many radio stations and appearances at the Soul Train Music and B.E.T Awards.
His debut album features the likes of Krayzie Bone (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony), Luciano, Freddie McGregor,
Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie), Big Youth, Toots Hibbert and many more plus he has worked with and
performed alongside the likes of many greats such as Roots Radic's Dwight Pinkney, New Zealand's KatchA-Fire, Beenie Man, Baby Cham, Barrington Levy, Tarrus Riley and others.
Gavinchi's efforts and accomplishments thus far have all been rooted in LOVE and everything made.... - www.karibbeanexpressions.com


"Gavinchi Brown carrying on the legacy of legends"

Gavinchi Brown is one of the brightest stars in the Reggae Industry, a "One- Drop Preneur" and definitely a
sure contender for the smartest working man in show business. His positive uplifting Sub-Stance Hall
(Dancehall with Substance) Music, D.I.Y (Do It Yourself) mentality and business structure has made
many other Jamaicans and Reggae Artists look at the business differently. Gavinchi is from an
extremely musical family and has been surrounded by music from birth.
His father, Owen Brown has the longest running Reggae Radio show
in Jamaica and has helped shape the careers of many artistes from Bob
Marley and Garnet Silk to Shabba Ranks and Beenie Man.
His mother, Shirley McLean is a 1980s Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall
icon known for supporting
women's rights. His uncle
and aunts (Me & You) hit
the British Top of the Pop
Charts in the 1980s as
well and his cousin Toots
Hibbert is known as the
first Artist to use the word
reggae in a song.
Gavinchi started
performing as a child in
1991, made his first
recording in 1995. He has
since been touring
consistently from 2007 in
support of his debut album "Release Di Truth... VOLUME ONE" which is
scheduled for release soon.
He has performed for a wide a variety of audiences; festivals, clubs,
colleges and various venues in Hawaii, America's West Coast, The East
Coast of Canada, various parts of Europe and his hometown Jamaica.
This has so far earned him business deals and sponsorship from
companies such as Pepsi and The LRG Clothing Company. He has also landed interviews on B.E.T, The
BBC, CNN, many radio stations and appearances at the Soul Train Music and B.E.T Awards.
His debut album features the likes of Krayzie Bone (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony), Luciano, Freddie McGregor,
Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie), Big Youth, Toots Hibbert and many more plus he has worked with and
performed alongside the likes of many greats such as Roots Radic's Dwight Pinkney, New Zealand's KatchA-Fire, Beenie Man, Baby Cham, Barrington Levy, Tarrus Riley and others.
Gavinchi's efforts and accomplishments thus far have all been rooted in LOVE and everything made.... - www.karibbeanexpressions.com


"Gavinchi Gives Veteran Performance... At The Launch Of His Debut Album"

Establishing rapport with his large audience, coordinating hand waves, encouraging the pair of hornsmen to 'take it', talking about his history in and approach to music and laughing at his own dance moves in progress, Gavinchi Brown looked the part of a seasoned - though young - performer on Saturday night.

Not only was Gavinchi launching his debut album, Release Di Truth ... Volume One, at the Jonkanoo Lounge, Wyndham hotel, New Kingston, but he later told The Gleaner that it was his first extended performance in Jamaica.

Among the tracks he performed, coordinating with the band which included a trio of harmony singers who at times synced in movement as they did in voice, were We Deh Ya, A Million (along with Edi Fitzroy), War (without Luciano and Krayzie Bone, who are featured on the record), the title track and the intro to the 21-track CD, Rockfort Rock.

While the audience showed appreciation for all the tracks, the youngsters in the mixed-age audience especially appreciated Don't Tell Me, Chevaughn Clayton coming onstage for the combination. And Gavinchi sat on the edge of the stage to sing Burning Spear's Jah No Dead, before standing to do his own Jah Love.

He even took a shot at singing the R&B of Grover Washington Jr's Just The Two Of Us.

Linked albums

Release Di Truth ... Volume One is the first album Gavinchi has released, but not the first he has done. There is, however, a link between the unreleased projects in Dry 4 Me, which features LaToya Hall and Noel Wills Jr. It was the last song he recorded for the initial album in the middle years of the last decade - and one of two to make the set launched on Saturday night. The other is Really Sorry (Kerry).

He was recording gradually as, "If I had done it over three months or four months, there is no way I could afford the production cost. We just take we time. You find that the tours and the shows, it help support the thing. Every dollar me make is reinvested in me thing."

But the overseas shows, which Brown started doing in November 2006 with a promotional slot at the Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, California, also changed Gavinchi's musical perspective and led to the scrapping of what would have been his debut album.

"When me do the first show abroad, I see the response and I see how powerful it is. We scrap the original album," he said.

The last song he recorded for Release Di Truth ... Volume One is the first on the CD - Rockfort Rock (Di Intro).

An extensive list of Gavinchi's music activities over the past five years was included in the press kit handed out at Saturday's launch and accounted for his 'seasoned' showing on Saturday night. There were numerous entries for the United States, including a series of shows and interviews in California between December 9, 2010, and January 16, 2011. Between October 5 and December 5 last year he was very active in Hawaii and in late 2009 Gavinchi was in Germany and the Czech Republic. There are also entries for Montreal and Ottawa in Canada.

Work paying off

The dates listed for Jamaica are sparse - Limelight, Half-Way Tree, in May 2007 and an East Kingston Kiwanis show in March 2009.

Gavinchi laughed as he told The Gleaner that "is not a foreign mind thing". He pointed out, though, that, "Some of the people abroad, them more receptive to the one drop thing we doing ... . Wherever you work and you sow the seed and you work at it every day, you going to get growth. It just happen that way."

Having worked on his debut album over some years, Gavinchi says Volume II of Release the Truth will be released in November.

"You find that after you go somewhere two, three times with the same set, you have to come with something new. So from now, everything will be once a year," he said.

There is also a book in the pipeline, as Gavinchi says he wants to put his approach to his musical development on record.

"Everything we do so far, we have been documenting it. We want to show it to people," he said. Plus, he says, "I never develop it myself. I learn from people."
- JAMAICA GLEANER


"Gavinchi Gives Veteran Performance... At The Launch Of His Debut Album"

Establishing rapport with his large audience, coordinating hand waves, encouraging the pair of hornsmen to 'take it', talking about his history in and approach to music and laughing at his own dance moves in progress, Gavinchi Brown looked the part of a seasoned - though young - performer on Saturday night.

Not only was Gavinchi launching his debut album, Release Di Truth ... Volume One, at the Jonkanoo Lounge, Wyndham hotel, New Kingston, but he later told The Gleaner that it was his first extended performance in Jamaica.

Among the tracks he performed, coordinating with the band which included a trio of harmony singers who at times synced in movement as they did in voice, were We Deh Ya, A Million (along with Edi Fitzroy), War (without Luciano and Krayzie Bone, who are featured on the record), the title track and the intro to the 21-track CD, Rockfort Rock.

While the audience showed appreciation for all the tracks, the youngsters in the mixed-age audience especially appreciated Don't Tell Me, Chevaughn Clayton coming onstage for the combination. And Gavinchi sat on the edge of the stage to sing Burning Spear's Jah No Dead, before standing to do his own Jah Love.

He even took a shot at singing the R&B of Grover Washington Jr's Just The Two Of Us.

Linked albums

Release Di Truth ... Volume One is the first album Gavinchi has released, but not the first he has done. There is, however, a link between the unreleased projects in Dry 4 Me, which features LaToya Hall and Noel Wills Jr. It was the last song he recorded for the initial album in the middle years of the last decade - and one of two to make the set launched on Saturday night. The other is Really Sorry (Kerry).

He was recording gradually as, "If I had done it over three months or four months, there is no way I could afford the production cost. We just take we time. You find that the tours and the shows, it help support the thing. Every dollar me make is reinvested in me thing."

But the overseas shows, which Brown started doing in November 2006 with a promotional slot at the Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, California, also changed Gavinchi's musical perspective and led to the scrapping of what would have been his debut album.

"When me do the first show abroad, I see the response and I see how powerful it is. We scrap the original album," he said.

The last song he recorded for Release Di Truth ... Volume One is the first on the CD - Rockfort Rock (Di Intro).

An extensive list of Gavinchi's music activities over the past five years was included in the press kit handed out at Saturday's launch and accounted for his 'seasoned' showing on Saturday night. There were numerous entries for the United States, including a series of shows and interviews in California between December 9, 2010, and January 16, 2011. Between October 5 and December 5 last year he was very active in Hawaii and in late 2009 Gavinchi was in Germany and the Czech Republic. There are also entries for Montreal and Ottawa in Canada.

Work paying off

The dates listed for Jamaica are sparse - Limelight, Half-Way Tree, in May 2007 and an East Kingston Kiwanis show in March 2009.

Gavinchi laughed as he told The Gleaner that "is not a foreign mind thing". He pointed out, though, that, "Some of the people abroad, them more receptive to the one drop thing we doing ... . Wherever you work and you sow the seed and you work at it every day, you going to get growth. It just happen that way."

Having worked on his debut album over some years, Gavinchi says Volume II of Release the Truth will be released in November.

"You find that after you go somewhere two, three times with the same set, you have to come with something new. So from now, everything will be once a year," he said.

There is also a book in the pipeline, as Gavinchi says he wants to put his approach to his musical development on record.

"Everything we do so far, we have been documenting it. We want to show it to people," he said. Plus, he says, "I never develop it myself. I learn from people."
- JAMAICA GLEANER


Discography

Release Di Truth... Volume One (2010)

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Bio

Gavinchi Brown is truly a pioneer in the Reggae World and this is why he has coined the word One-Drop Preneur to represent his enormous vision and strong work ethic. Not many artists, reguardless of genres, have consistently and consecutively toured over seventy cities across the world in a four year period. Gavinchi tours anywhere from 6-9 months per year and most recently completed a four month U.S/ European tour stemming from as far as Slovakia in the east to Hawaii in the west. With this recently wrapped up tour (Feb-May 2013) and being on the verge of completing his second album; 2013 is his best year yet.

To date, Gavinchi has graced top notch websites such as wireimage.com and dailyceleb.com, among others; he has formed business alliances with multi-national giants such as D&G Ting(Pepsi Americas) and The LRG Clothing Company, been interviewed by several major media houses such as BET, BBC, CNN, TimeWarner, RJR, IrieFM & RETv, made several red carpet appearances (including the Soul Train and BET Awards), performed at various colleges, universities, festivals and events in Jamaica, various parts of Europe, Canada's East Coast, The Continental U.S and Hawaii. He has performed at (and even headlined and sold out) venues previously packed by legends such as The Beatles, Willie Nelson, Kool And The Gang, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Eek-A-Mouse and Pato Baton plus performed alongside the likes of Toots Hibbert (his cousin), Stephen Marley, Yellowman, Ernie Smith, Beenie Man, Baby Cham, Barrington Levy, Mykal Rose, Xzibit, Anthony B, New Zealand's Katch A Fire, Hawaii's The Green, Ooklah The Moc, Anuhea, B.U.B.z and many others. He has worked alongside Grammy Award Winning and Multi-Platinum Artists and Producers like Ini Kamoze, Krayzie Bone (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony) and Dany Tomas; some of Jamaicas finest musical talents, such as Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie), Freddie McGreggor, Big Youth, Robbie Lyn, Dwight Pinkney (Roots Radics), Steve Golding (Peter Toshs Word, Sound & Power Band), Keith Francis, Gibby Morrison, Charmaine Bowman and many more.

Being from a musical family has definitely helped Gavin hone his musical gifts and talents as he has always been surrounded by music; but it is his strong work ethic that has enabled him to be as successful as he has been thus far. He organizes all his tours, writes, produces and arranges his music plus so much more under Phenix Records (his independent label). Make no bones about it; Gavin will be the first one to tell you that, even with all his accomplishments thus far and the successful completion of his powerful debut album Release Di Truth VOLUME ONE, he has just started to scratch the surface. We are witnessing the rise of a new era and time will reveal how great Gavinchi Brown is.

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