He’d be down in the basement in his studio and say, ‘Do a harmony here.’ I’m like, ‘What’s a harmony?’” “So I’d go to A&P and steal chickens and beef and feed his whole family. “I was 18, 19 years old and a huge Shan fan, but he wasn’t doing too well at the time,” Snow says. There, at least, his bad-boy side came in handy. Charged with attempted murder, Snow spent eight months in a detention center before his friend confessed to the stabbing.Īfter the incident but shortly before that stint, Snow - who was given that nickname by his Jamaican-Canadian neighbors - was on vacation in New York, where he met and recorded with pioneering hip hop producer MC Shan. When construction workers mocked him after they saw him singing reggae to girls, he and a friend got into a butcher-knife fight with the workers, one of whom was cut. “He was cool.”ĭrinking and brawling was a regular part of Snow’s adolescence, and in 1989, that part of his life caught up with him. “If it wasn’t for, I wouldn’t be in music,” says Snow, who later met Trudeau’s son (and future prime minister himself) Justin at an awards show. After Jamaicans moved into his neighborhood - thanks to then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s revised immigration policies - reggae infiltrated his life for good. Growing up as Darrin O’Brien in Irish projects in Toronto, he was raised on classic rock, from Kiss to soft-rock kings America. Snow’s career has been, to put it mildly, unconventional.
Will Snow now capitalize on its renewed profile? “ Capitalize?” he says, as if the word is foreign to him. “I said, ‘Let’s see if this can pass the original,’ and then I looked at the views on YouTube and was like, ‘Holy shit, no joke!’” Park Avenue Thee Night Club 8.“When I heard it, I got chills,” Snow, who will turn 50 later this year, says of the original “Con Calma” record.
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