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CE L EBRIT Y INTERVI EW SHAGGY


LIVE 24-SEVEN “ 14


IT’S GOING TO BE GOOD VIBES! I’VE DONE A COUPLE OF SHOWS WITH NELLY ON SEVERAL


OCCASIONS BACK WHEN HE WAS JUST COMING OUT, SO WE DID THE CIRCUIT TOGETHER.


I mean…any one of them! I think Mýa will be cool in the sense that she’s being doing a lot of dancehall and reggae lately, even from before she’s done records with Beenie Man and people like that, but they’re all great!


You’ve not long completed a tour with Sting! How did that come about? I’ve known Sting for years! We have a mutual friend in common, Martin Kierszenbaum. He was my A&R at Interscope and also Sting’s A&R at Interscope and then Martin started managing Sting and then managed me and he just thought that we would work well together. We went into the studio to do one song and then we thought that we had a lot in common on many levels that turned into a friendship, which then developed into an album. We just couldn’t get enough of each other and the way we make music and the laughs and the fun. We just said, “We’re gonna take this show on the road.”


The Blast Off! Tour kicks off at the end of February next year; are you excited to be heading back on the road? Yeah! I’ve literally just got back off the road with UB40 in North America, so this is a perfect time to be hitting the UK and Ireland! It’s a great line-up also. As soon as I looked at the line-up I said, ‘Yeah, I definitely wanna go!’ It’s a line-up of great hits.


Nelly, Salt-N-Pepa, Blu Cantrell…are you excited to have some of the biggest names of the nineties and noughties joining you on the tour? It’s going to be good vibes! I’ve done a couple of shows with Nelly on several occasions back when he was just coming out, so we did the circuit together. Recently, I think the last shows we did together were in Canada, a couple of dates there. I just think with the amount of amazing records these guys have got, we’ve got Salt-N-Pepa, Blu Cantrell. I’m sure there will be a lot of guests coming in and out, it’s just going to be a really, really good night!


If you had to pick one other artist from the line-up, who do you think will be the most fun to hit the road with?


Your joint album 44/876 was a massive success and also won you a Grammy; did you expect to receive such an amazing response to the album? We didn’t know what to do with that thing, because Sting and Shaggy on paper looks really weird! That’s kind of what attracted us to it anyway; the fact that no one was really expecting it and everybody would be sitting there thinking, “What the f*** is it?” But one thing was undeniable, which we knew would be, that once you came to a show, you would leave entertained and if you look at most of the write-up and reviews of the shows throughout the whole tour, people were saying that they came even though they didn’t think they would like it and they found it a little weird because they forgot how many hits we have between us and it’s the journey and soundtrack of people’s lives – and that’s what it’s all about. The smiles on people’s faces, that’s all that matters really.


Rather impressively, you’ve had four UK number one singles. How do you find playing the UK compares to elsewhere? Do you feel an affinity with the UK? I used to go over to the UK for years; it’s almost as if people thought I lived there! We’ve had a few number ones and a lot of pop records over there, which started in 1992 with ‘Oh Carolina’, which was the first dancehall record that actually went into the British chart at number one. Then we were on Top of the Pops four times and it was the first time dancehall really did that as well. Then we debuted at number one with ‘Boombastic’ and it was the first time for reggae and dancehall again. At that point, I started to circuit and get to know everyone over there so England and the whole of the UK was a big part of that time for me and I have a lot of friends in the UK that I’ve known over the years because I feel like I’ve lived there


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