By Sadeke Brooks—
With a career spanning more than 40 years, singer Mykal Rosesays he remains relevant by doing songs that the public can relate to.
His latest project is Crucial World, an album he released a month ago on iTunes.
“We sing about social issues and everyday life weh youth and youth haffi face. I am a peacemaker in the business,” he told The Gleaner.
“These songs when dem come out, dem still fresh. The sound weh the album have, even if it release 10 years from now it would still be right for the time.”
Rose said Crucial World was produced by Jam Jam and has collaborations with Assassin (Gang War), Shabba Ranks (Quick Fi Shoot) and Damian Marley (Shoot Out). He added that Lexicon and Angel Doolas should be given credit for the part they played in the writing process.
Revolutionary album
“The album is a revolutionary album. It’s really dealing with issues in the street. The music has a new sound in the business. If somebody listen, it has variation, you can’t get tired of it. It’s like a new age energy. It fresh,” Rose said.
Rose, who was in Jamaica recently, says he has just started the promotion for Crucial World and wants to make sure it is available in the country of his birth.
“It just came out and I am trying to get it in the streets of Jamaica so that Jamaicans don’t get left out. We need to get the thing up and going in Jamaica ’cause this music is good music,” Rose said.
The former member of Black Uhuru has made quite a name for himself in the music industry he entered back in the 1970s.
Before branching off into a solo career, he won the first reggae Grammy Award in 1985 with Black Uhuru for the album Anthem. He went on to do well as a solo artiste with a huge catalogue that includes songs like Short Temper, Rude Boy and Shoot Out.
Having been around for decades, Rose says he just wants the public to get reacquainted with his style of music.
“Mi nuh hope fi have no impact, the impact is already there. Mi just a rise up the people. Mi a di original, mi nuh follow people, people follow me. When you deal with music you have to be a teacher,” he told The Gleaner.
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