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Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

If art was ever meant to be a form of expression, free flowing and honest, relevant and not current, today’s music and musicians may partially live up to the definition. Jason Pigg however, has personified just that throughout his inconspicuous career. Never has the Northern California bred Mcee referred to himself as a rapper, but as an artist. Staying true to his roots, his personality as well as his incredibly underrated talent, has remained humble and sincere throughout the years. Forever changing, growing his simple yet effective vocabulary and mellow style, the once former San Francisco Academy of Art student, has maintained his uniqueness while flying very low under the radar of music execs and labels.

Born and raised in Santa Rosa California, a small community located in California’s bay area, Jason had never taken on the typical sound of his fellow bay area counterparts. Influenced heavily by his father’s and younger brother’s love for 70′s funk, his music has taken on a sound so easy on the ears that even local radio DJ’s have deemed the young man a “breathe of fresh air.” Even being blessed with an unimaginable talent, Jason had always been a student of art and life and decided to put his music on hold to graduate college with a Bachelor’s degree in communication at Chico State University. Though very focused, his love of art and music would not escape him and before long, the Northern Cali mcee found himself the lead singer of Butte county’s number one music group (The Hooliganz) for the next several years. Even with a radio number 1 hit in “Stevie Wonder,” a promising hip-hop group and armed with a college degree, Jason still found himself absent of record deals and notoriety he longed for and focused his attention on his first solo album, “Brief History,” in 2006. The album was extremely successful in Northern California and featured production from another Northern Cali talent who would become an intricate part of Jason’s career, Producer and engineer Irthwirm.

Though his talent proceeded him, deals still were hard to find absent of a label and proper management. Jason caught his first big break in 2008 when he won the Suzuki Motorcycles nation wide Busa Beats Hip Hop Battle and the artist’s entire career would take on an unexpected change. After winning the competition Jason was sent to Indianapolis to host and perform in front of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts at the XDL Championships. From his success there, the still humble and independent artist landed 3 national tours (IMS and most recently the Icon Limiter Tour), a television co-star appearance on Speed TV’s Stealth Rider program, for which he also landed the title track and produced 23 different records, a full page article in 2 Wheel Tuner, and garnished substantial nationwide notoriety. In 2011, Jason found himself hosting the Busa Beats competition he had previously won, along side celebrity radio and tv personality, Big Tigger and landed his first record deal. He also received attention from Complex and The Source magazine respectively, who threw the mcee a proper New York congratulatory party and featured him in their on line magazines, alts while recording his 3rd solo album titled “Life, Love, Music, Passion” that was released on tour winer quarter 2001. With a highly touted LP appropriately named “545 Talbot” (The street the cali mcee grew up on), a live performance in New York City’s Time Square, a new live band adding to his already superb live show and the launch of Fresh Side Radio in which the Mcee will take his first professional hosting job, Mr. Pigg is setting the bar very high for 2013.

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