Artists and musicians will tell you that some of the best songs are cut from spontaneous incidents at a recording studio. Gospel singer Clifford Clarke can attest to this.
Money A Run, one of his latest songs, was released in December. It features veteran deejay King Banton on a loping reggae/gospel beat.
The two artists, who ran into each other regularly at the High Tech recording studio in Miramar, did the song at the insistence of a mutual colleague.
“When I was voicing the song Banton was in the studio doing his thing and is when I was about to leave, di guy sey, ‘wha yuh don’t mek Banton do a thing on it’? Him do it an’ things work great,” Clarke recalled.
The 68 year-old Clarke produced Money A Run which addresses the positives and negatives of the good old ‘green’. It is part of a 14-song album of the same name, which also came out in December’. The single Di Week Done, is currently holding spots on the Foundation Radio Network Top 30 Chart, and the South Florida Top 25 Chart.
Clarke is originally from Linstead, a market town in rural Jamaica. It has produced a number of outstanding artists including Freddie McKay, Joseph Hill of Culture and rocksteady queen, Phyllis Dillon.
His own music career started in the late 1960’s as a member of the Galaxy Three, which did “strictly rocksteady.”
Migrating to Miami in 1980, Clarke continued to record, releasing songs like Dragon Lady. Once he became a father, he stepped away from the music business, raised his children and embraced Christianity.
Since making a comeback in the late 1990’s, most of Clarke’s music has been spiritual. An ordained minister, he has released a flurry of albums including the debut Revival And Deliverance in 2000.
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