This project was started in 2015 with the percussive driven In a mi blood all tracks are written by Nadine and the Mad Prof with Nadine supplying lyrics and prof the music

This is also a “marriage” of Jamaica, UK, US, and Guyana. A meeting of cultures and a meeting of styles.

Nadine Sutherland signed to Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Records after winning the annual Tastee Talent Competition in 1979. She comes from a long legacy of music. Her career launch was postponed by the death of the reggae king.

Nadine Sutherland winning the Tastee Talent Competition in 1979

After a decade, Nadine came to prominence as a nineties dancehall diva with the hit Action with Terror Fabulous 

Mad Professor

Neal “Mad Professor” Fraser

Self taught recording engineer got into production after years of building equipment. A keen Garveyite, Neil Fraser started Ari wa in the late seventies with The motto Method to the Madness.

Ariwa with a catalogue of more than 350 titles, is now Britain’s longest and most successful black owned record labels.

Tracks & Credits:

1. Waggonist

2. It Na Go So

3. Inna Me Blood

4. Gallist

5. Fabulous

6. Zion Gates

Produced by : The Mad Professor

Drums: Horseman, Drumton 

Bass: Black Steel,

Keys: Sgt Pepper, Cyrus, Addis Pablo

Guitars: Steel

Perc: Cush Genesis 

Backing vocals Nadine Sutherland & Steel

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