Micky Souljahr |
Category: Indie Bands
•Executive Production (rec, mix, mastering) CD "TRUE TEACHING"
•Live FOH Engineering
BIOGRAPHY "The first time that I have had to do with the Reggae Music is more or less in 89' /90'.Remember that the first song that I listened was Jammin' by Bob Marley: that was like an awakening from a sleep, and I had the feeling to have found what I looked for ". This way it has beginning the artistic and spiritual history of Michele Belvito, now known as “Micky SOULJAHR”. From that moment Reggae music has been the source of teaching and inspiration that must be cultivated day by day ..... Born in June 1976 in Foggia, South Italy, to the time of the school he remembers: "I was not a student model, I preferred the friends to the streets, listen to the music, Reggae obviously, to smoke the first ones "spliffs", to explore the life, some times also harshly, in a city of the South Italy that doesn't have very to offer. Thanks to Jah however, we had the possibility to direct our life on other objectives, on values transmitted us by the music that we listened, more and more attentively." And meanwhile Micky takes little by little confidence with the music, with the Instruments and singing, playing the songs of Marley and other artists. The musical and spiritual run are grown of equal footstep. He starts to study more attentively the lyrics of Marley, and he realize that in his words Bob speak of the Bible, of Haile Selassie I. That has been the passage that has pushed him to cultivate the Rastafari faith. Is by now the '95, and he start to delineate a structure of the band call Jah Children (name that however it had brief life), that was: Micky "SoulJahr" Belvito (voice and rhythm gtr), Pino "Mosyah" Loy (lead gtr), Giovanni Cavaliere (bass), Luca "Wadada" Ferrara (drum) and Massimo Caso (keyboards). In the first months of the '96 were added to the band Ivan Capuano (choirs) and, in the same year, the band took the name DREAD INA BABYLON! This way some for time the Band, that has added Nico Ciuffreda (keyboards) and Federico Belvito (lead gtr), Micky’s brother, start to acquiring the first ones but many consents. On the beginning of the '98, the band starts to lose the first members, and to meet the first difficulties. The keyboardist are scarce, and hit of grace also Luca "Wadada" Ferrara (drum), and Ivan's departed to follow their job business. So also Micky, approves the situation of stalemate, decides to move himself to Rome. In fact the Roman experience is a lot of impact. Micky did a greater experience in the Reggae circuit and start to focus himself to the creation of his own songs, as Cerca le radici and Cala la notte, and to collaborate with some musicians of the Roman scene. Then arrives '99 and DREAD INA BABYLON are: Micky (Voice and gtr), Pino (gtr), Federico (gtr), Giovanni (bass), a new entry to the drum Alex Lo Storto, the percussionist and choirs Fabio Barbato, to the choirs Michele Tancredi and after many attempts without succeeded, finally the keyboardist Giuseppe "Legend" Leccese and more keyboards Angelo "Babaprofessor" Caponi. The guys enters in the recording studio for their first Album entitled "Dread ina Babylon": Cala la notte, Cerca le radici, Reggae è, Danger in dub and Roots in dub. And so we find D.I.B. again around to Italy to promote the Cd, promotion that bring the guys from Rome to Sicily, (also having consents from France and England) up to the 2000 Rototom Sunsplash (repeated experience also in the editions of the '01 and '02), to the tim tour 2001 (introduced by Red Ronnie), Arezzo Wave 01, and to touch the most representative cities and festival of the Italian Reggae circuit from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, Micky starts to work to the recording of some new tunes that see the collaboration of other musicians as the Bass player Jazz Nicola Scagliozzi, the known Singer Ras Hobo from Naples, the Afro-American DJ Freddy G, at Saxophone Biagio Piemontese and the guitarist Ricky "Dread" Annolfi. The first single as “Micky Souljahr” is Jah Soldier, published in 2003, job that also sees Micky as producer for his own Label "Soul Records". The job with Dread ina Babylon goes decreasing little by little, and Micky totally focus on his new project. The new single, vinyl 7" inch, printed in January 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica, and distributed in U.S., Europe and Japan by One Love Distribution INTL, side A: True Teaching (tune that give the title to the album) and side B: Babylon is Fallin' (feat. Freddy G), it anticipate the album, out on May 2007 distributed by Good Fellas and published by Satta Records. To be continued…
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