Artist description I LIKE TO WRITE & PLAY REGGAE MUSIC!

Music Style REGGAE

Musical Influences OLD SCHOOL REGGAE

Similar Artists NOBODY

Artist History MY NAME IS PAPPARATT. I GOT THIS NAME IN JAMAICAN AS A CHILD FOR ROASTING A RAT IN A STEEL DRUM FOR SPORT. I WAS BORN IN NEGRIL WEST MORELAND JAMAICA IN MARCH OF 1961. I MOVED TO LA CALIFORNIA IN 1976 TO BECOME A DJ AND STARTED HANGING AROUND THE DANCE CLUBS LISTENING TO REGGAE MUSIC. ABOUT THIS TIME I STARTED TO STUDY GUITAR BUT I WAS NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. WHEN I MOVED TO COLUMBUS, OHIO IN 1988 I MET KEN YERIAN AND HE GOT ME STARTED ON WRITING MY OWN SONGS ON BASS. WE DID SOME GIGS BUT THE BAND BROKE UP BEFORE WE GOT ANYWHERE. LATER KEN & ME STARED RECORDING WITH STUDIO 110 WHICH AT THE TIME WAS IN A CONVERTED SCHOOL BUILDING CALLED MILO ARTS ON 3RD AVE. IN COLUMBUS. HERE WE RECORDED MY 1ST RECORD CALLED PAPPARATT GOTS TO PROSPER ON A 4 TRACK TAPE DECK. IT FEATURED KEN YERIAN GUITAR/BASS, SAM BROWN & RUDEBOY SMITH DRUMS, WAYNE DISTIN VOCALS, SIMON ROCHESTER BASS, TONY JACOB HORN, FRANKIE THOMPSON TRUMPET, SOME GUY NAMED ERICK ON TRUMPET, JOE ON SAXES, AND ME ON VOCALS & DRUMS. WE RELEASED ABOUT 30 COPIES IN 1997. I AM NOW RECORDING ANOTHER PROJECT BUT IT WILL BE A FEW YEARS BEFORE IT WILL BE READY. WELL, THAT'S ABOUT IT, EXCEPT, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I AM DRUG FREE & VERY RELIGIOUS. RALSTON DISTIN PEACE! 1999

Instruments keyboards, bass, guitar, & drums.

Albums Papparatt

Location delaware, Ohio - USA

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