NATTY KING
The Man from the Eastern parish of St. Thomas dubbed Natty King.
Kevin Christopher Roberts, aka Natty King is best known for hits such as
"Mister Greedy" and "No Guns To Town". Believed to be one of the members of conscious music, he draws his inspiration from reggae pioneers The Wailers, Burning Spear, and his personal role model Luciano.
Natty recorded "No Guns To Town" and "Love Me" on the Two-Miles label, which took off like a rocket sitting at the top of numerous reggae charts
nationally and overseas. His follow up single "Mr. Greedy" on Insight
Records also went No.1 on the local charts. Incidentally, "No Guns To Town"
and "Mister Greedy" videos were also No.1 on the Video Chart in Jamaica.
Since his emergence, Natty King has graced the stage of Sting 2003, East Fest 2003 & 2004, Rebel Salute, Western Consciousness and Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest all held in 2004. In all these shows Natty King showed the world that he had indeed arrived.
He was voted number one rural artiste for 2003, in Jamaica, he also copped the 2003 award in the Best New Entertainer category at the 23rd
International Reggae and Word Music Award (IRAWMA) in Manhattan, New York,as well as the Jamaica 2003 Jamaica Federation Music Award (JFM) for Best New Singer.
Right now Natty King has one focus and thats to be the best that he can be. He's doing more cultural songs and looking out for the youths and the elderly people. He prides himself on being very humble and surrounds himself with people who have the right attitude, as he believes ultimately they can influence you.
He's currently working with the Frenz For Real Music Family in Kingston Jamaica; so you can look out for more uplifting and conscious vibe music.
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NATTY KING "Born To Be Free"
Streetdate, 16.04.2010
Label: House of Riddim Productions/DHF Records
Distibuted by Groove Attack
On Tour in Europe in June!
Kevin Christopher Roberts, aka Natty King or the „Man from the East“s first
apperiance in the music industry, was with hits like "Mister Greedy" and "No
Guns To Town". Believed to be one of the members of conscious music, he
draws his inspiration from reggae pioneers The Wailers, Burning Spear, and
his personal role model Luciano.
It was in 2002 when Natty King recorded „No Guns to Town“ on the Two-Miles
label, which took off like a rocket sitting at the top of numerous reggae
charts nationally and overseas. His follow up single "Mr. Greedy" on Insight
Records also went No.1 on the local charts. Incidentally, "No Guns To Town"
and "Mister Greedy" videos were also No.1 on the Video Chart in Jamaica.
Since his emergence, Natty King has graced the stage of Sting 2003, East
Fest 2003 & 2004 Rebel Salute & Dancehall JamJam. Also Western Consciousness
and Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest all held in 2004. In all these shows Natty
King showed the world that he had indeed arrived.
He was voted number one rural artiste for 2003, in Jamaica, he also copped
the 2003 award in the Best New Entertainer category at the 23rd
International Reggae and Word Music Award (IRAWMA) in Manhattan, New York,
as well as the Jamaica 2003 Jamaica Federation Music Award (JFM) for Best
New Singer.
After this massive success in jamaica, Natty King started touring the world
(mainly US and europe). He has attended on several major reggae festivals
incl. Rototom Sunsplash in Italy, Upsalla Reggae Festival in Sweden,
JahSound Festival in France, Reggaejam in Germany, The Sierra Nevada World
Music Festival & the Bob Marley Festival (CA) in the US and many many
others.
Since late 2007 Natty King has been constantly working on his second album
together with executive producer Lennart Tacke and the Label „House of
Riddim“ from Austria.
After touring in europe with the House of Riddim Band in 2008 & 2009, the
recording of the Album moved on to its final stages.
This new Album (and just the second official one from Natty King over all)
is loaded with cultural one drop reggae and statements from Natty King about
our society & his struggles in daily life.
The Album includes 16 Tracks, featuring colaborations with „The Original
Gangalee“ Louie Culture, another artist from the East of Jamaica (Parish
Portland) and the current Mega-Star Fantan Mojah on the song „Herb from the
Westside“.
The first single „Real Herbalist“ (Released in 2008) was a major success in
europe and now the world is waiting for more from „The Man from the East“ -
Natty King!!!
The 2nd & 3rd single of the album (both releases in 2009) are „The Truth
“ (produced by House of Riddim) and „Purge Dem“ (by Bassrunner Productions),
a tune that is currently burning up the dancehalls worldwide as part of the
Prison Break Selection.
From you love quality cultural roots reggae, you will love the album from
this young emerging rastafarian singer outta Jamaica.
FOR BOOKINGS CONTACT:
Collavanni International Muziq Management
1.876.448.0697, 1.876.492.8420 Jamaica Office~Executive Management O.Benjamin
1.876.377.9347 mobile CEO Collavanni
1.704.649.8877 USA Office ~Exec.Admin. Jennifer Mundle
More infos on
www.myspace.com/NattyKing
www.myspace.com/houseofriddim
