Get to know more about George Nooks and his evolution throughout his musical career in 5 Questions with George Nooks.
How has your legal issue affected your career?
The fans know who I am, and everything is good. They have reached out to me in all kind of ways to show me that they are here. But I have been advised not to speak too much about it by my lawyer … . I have bookings like you have never seen.
I have an album [which was] released on the 27th of August – For You – consisting of love songs, most of the tracks [are] written by me. I am telling you that this album is a must-get. I am getting rave reviews from all over the globe, I am just waiting to see how people react here about it. It is something big for me, I haven’t done a love-track album in years.
Why were you once called ‘Prince Mohamed’?
That name was given to me by Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson because they say I was too talented to go by one name, suh I should make people believe that I am two persons. So I deejay under ‘Prince Mohamed’, and I sing under ‘George Nooks’.
Nowadays, you don’t deejay that much. Why?
When yuh a deejay, the style always change, suh mi nuh really follow it up that much. But on certain shows, I have to draw for some of the big chunes.
You’ve sung a lot of gospel songs. Which one would you say is your most successful one?
God is Standing By. What I remember is that it spent a lot of time at number one. I got numerous awards for it all over the world, I cannot do a show and not do that song. As a singer, I have never seen another record hitting in the streets in the dancehall, in the Church, in school, and everywhere that you can think of. I used to sing that song at my school.
My grandmother, who I grew up with, when she was going out, said to me: ‘Yuh going let mi pass and don’t sing some gospel?’. And that’s when I went into the studio, and I did it. And as a matter of fact, it was two or three days after it was released that she died. I dedicate it to her.
Do you have a special gadget that you can’t do without?
First of all, when you live with God, yuh can’t leave God nuh weh … . Phone. Phone is a part of life nowadays, suh yuh affi mek sure say yuh have some money in yuh pocket.
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