Artist description Yorle B delivers nuthin' but straight-up reasoning - raw and unapologetic. His freshest offering, "It Started With 1" more than demonstrates the fire, the skill, and the presence of a talented songsmith that you're never too sure what hot button he will push next.

Music Style Hip Hop Reggae

Musical Influences Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, Arrested Development

Similar Artists Sizzla, Capleton, Anthony B

Artist History Deciding upon a music career while making a guest artist appearance on an album by the hardcore rap group F Clan, in December of 95, under the pseudonym, Black Gangsta; he was approached after performing at Le Fond dor (a nightclub in Prise dean, Guadeloupe FWI), while on tour with the group, to cut his own single - which he gladly accepted. However, no longer was he called Black Gangsta in a slackness nature, but YORLE B: a deejay inspired and filled with culture. Later in 1996, a month of work with producer Frederick Caracas (of the world renown Zouk group, Kassav) delivered the album Apache Camache, credited to YORLE Bs fledging imprint, Lickle Boy Soun, and distributed by Mora Disc; featuring the self-produced smash hit Tell Dem A-Reddy that resulted in a nomination for The Best New Artist at DBS Fame Awards 98. YORLE B has since done a number of recordings including The Story of Two Wicked Dee Jays, released on the Lickle Boy Soun label with his label mate De Ole Benz, and a solo underground album Messages. He also featured on Derrick Rah Peters (lead singer of the group Raw Redeem) Lone Rain Jah remix, from the album of the same name, which held its own on the local charts in 1998. Returning to the studio in 1999, YORLE B produced the 7 song EP CD Wonders & Signs with cuts like Love, Wonders & Signs, Grow Your Hair, Burn Your Arms, and More Faya. Realizing the power of writing, producing, and performing music with integrity that is also commercially viable, this artist continues to build the career of his destiny. He is proud to have opened for notable reggae acts like Buju Banton, Jahmali, and Beres Hammond, as well as gracing the stage for the 2001 Caribbean Queen contest. His forthcoming US debut release, It Started With 1, is set to brandish a array of spitfire tracks aimed at urban American listeners when it hits the streets Spring 2002.

Albums Wonders and Signs, It Started With 1

Press Reviews With eyes on the elusive North American urban music market that has always seemed to remain within easy distance of even the best of Caribbean music artists, including the late Great Bob Marley, Nature Island (dominica) recording artist, Yorle B ventures into winning them over with his brand of Next Generation, Rasta influenced, message by music. By industry standards the music is a hybrid of roots reggae and hip-hop tied together by socio-politically relevant lyrics that continue to garner the nods of listeners with every spin. Born, October 12th, of the Tribe of Dan, Elroy Blanc, aka Yorle B, has been enjoying music from a very young age. He grew up like any Caribbean youth in his generation listening to music from the late Reggae Great, The Wailers, Peter Tosh, and Steel Pulse just to name a few. He decided to make music his career in December 1995 while making a guest artist appearnace on an album by a hardcore rap group F Clan. The album however never went on to final production resulting from the group's prison sentences for armed robberies. A few days later, the producer approached Yorle B, known at the time as 'Black Gangsta,' to feature on another album. He ended up touring the island of Guadeloupe with the group, making new acquaintances, and being taken in by the process of studio recording. the album was the debut for the changed Yorle B, mentally and spiritually. No longer was he called 'Black Gangsta' in a slackness nature, but 'Yorle B': a deejay inspired and filled with culture. "Jah Rastafari send I on a mission: to make music that candidly speaks to real issues felt by real people from real, everyday walks of life. It may not be what some want to hear, but it's the truth," explains Yorle. The strength of his upcoming US debut lies in tying together happenings on his homefront to that of the wider world, particularly with those of America's inner cities. Therefore, when it is said that we live in a global village, the proof is in the music. Nah Bow, the lead single of his soon to be released album, It Started With 1, examines social stratification and profiling, the lack of confidence in the police by the public, and the need to revisit wholesome living as a means of improving things. After all, when the NYPD can let off 41 bullets in the body of African US-immigrant Amadou Diallo, and get acquitted in court, not to mention the numerous unreported and unprosecuted illegal strip searces, wrongful arrests based on mistaken identity, and speculative ghetto shakedowns, aren't such topics relevant?

Location Virginia Beach, Virginia - USA

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