by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – With a busy 2023 below his belt, Wayne Surprise is making ready to embark on a brand new 12 months the best way he began the outdated one. Recording new songs and conserving busy touring.
The singer carried out on the December 4-9 Welcome To Jamrock Cruise promoted by the Marley household. Previous to that, on December 2 he was in Jamaica for the favored Footloose present in Kingston.
He’s wanting ahead to an hectic 2024.
“God is nice, him maintain mi busy, and I can’t ask for greater than dat. I had an awesome vibes with di Marley sons, and it was a very long time Jamaica by no means see me, so it was an awesome vibe general,” he advised South Florida Caribbean Information.
Surprise, finest recognized for songs like No Letting Go and Joyride, adopted these gigs with a present at Palm On line casino Resort in Las Vegas on December 14.
December 1 noticed the discharge of As a result of It’s Time by White Flag, a multi-artiste group that includes Surprise and co-produced by fellow Jamaican Sean Roy Strachan. That tune additionally options Vincentian artist Kevin Lyttle, American-Jamaican rapper Sean Kingston, American singer Mya and Dutch singer/dancer Shaffik Mohammed.
Recorded in 4 languages, As a result of It’s Time is completed by 16 artists, primarily from Latin America. Its goal is to boost funds to help packages by Colombian police and make clear the scourge of gang violence.
Surprise acquired concerned with the mission via Strachan, with whom he has labored previously. A local of Dunkirk, one in all Kingston’s hardest communities, he has skilled the results of inner-city turmoil.
“I’m absolutely on board with this mission, all of us want peace in di world. Di gang violence in Jamaica, di gang violence in Latin American nations, di complete chaos. We want one thing to assuage that,” he stated.