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454 Life Entertainment is a record label that represents a breakthrough voice from the streets. Marquee artists include well-known rap artists Thai, Drew Deezy, Nump Trump, and IZ. Collectively, 454 Life Entertainment is set to define a new era in urban music and culture. The music is real and the movement is undeniable.

Premier reggae fusion label, Ranch Entertainment, Inc., launched worldwide in early 2011, further expanding this hot, new musical genre. With headquarters in both New York City and Jamaica, Ranch Entertainment is the brainchild of reggae artist Orville “Shaggy” Burrell. For Jamaican-born Burrell, a Grammy-winning Diamond-selling artist, the new label is an opportunity to use his extensive knowledge of the industry to catapult Jamaican artists into the musical mainstream.

Sharing a common vision of expanding reggae fusion and furthering global appreciation of the genre, Burrell and his team formed Ranch Entertainment after departing Big Yard Music Group. The label’s name derives from ‘The Ranch,’ Burrell’s long-time recording studio in New York City, where all of his international blockbuster and Billboard chart-topping hits were conceived and created.

As the music industry continues to pose hurdles and challenges to the success of rising stars, the mission of Ranch Entertainment is to develop and facilitate innovative approaches for up and coming artists to excel in the current market. Ranch Entertainment also partners with established artists by providing them with access to opportunities outside their usual channels.

In addition to Shaggy, Ranch Entertainment’s world-renowned artist roster includes Rayvon and Red Fox. With fusion as their formula, they routinely collaborate with a variety of artists including Tarrus Riley, J Boog, Gyptian, Alaine, Laza Morgan and Assassin. Their impressive international collaborators include Ne-Yo, Eve, Kat DeLuna, Joe and Mario Wynans, to name a few.

Ranch Ent. is also home to famed producers such as megahit-maker Shaun “Sting International” Pizzonia, who was responsible for Shaggy’s hugely successful “Angel,” “It Wasn’t Me” and “Boombastic,” and also Andre “GC” Fennell. Their internationally-known affiliate producers includes Anthony “CD” Kelly, Teflon The Producer formerly of Ruff Ryders, Jerry Wonder, Christopher Birch, Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor, and Costi Ioniţă of Romania.

A full-service production house with award-winning, state-of-the-art facilities, Ranch Ent. has gifted and critically-acclaimed songwriters, composers, producers and engineers available to realize artists’ musical dreams. Artists receive professional treatment from the staff throughout the creative process, providing a smooth transition from concept to creation.

Current projects for the pioneering label include a collaboration album between Shaggy with Sly & Robbie, a Jamaica 50th Independence commemorative single, the official 2012 Jamaica Olympics Team song, the popular Kingston13 Riddim—in addition to various riddim albums and singles—and Shaggy’s Grammy-nominated Summer In Kingston album. Look for the German edition to be released in spring 2012, featuring Eve on the new single, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

Combining an unlimited talent pool from Jamaica and beyond with an award-winning, experienced in-house team, Ranch Entertainment is fulfilling its mission of expanding the horizons of Reggae. For more information, visit ranchent.com, and follow the mission at facebook.com/ranchent and twitter.com/ranchent.

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.

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