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CEE JAY
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Total of 170 votes
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Last update: 02/04/12 09:20:49
Account: Free Artist Account
Location: AFRICA: Zimbabwe
Signed up: 17 Oct 2009 09:07 PM
Members: Cee Jay
Genre: Acoustic
Influences: Akon Youssou N'dour Bob Marley Cece Winans Jay Z T Pain Kanye West Taylor Swift
Website: http://www.rudeboy-records.com
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Biography
Zimbabwe: Cee Jay's Back Home - With Loaded Album
Ngoni Muzofa
2 July 2009
FOR Cee Jay, One Ariega Reloaded -- a 15-track album the US-based musician is in Zimbabwe to promote -- represents more than just creative work. It epitomises a "coming home", literally and figuratively.
After a decade in the diaspora which bore two albums catering for his immediate market in terms of form and content, the latest offering attempts to reconnect with his "true self" and with local audiences who are getting a feel of his sound for the first time.
Born and raised in the mean streets of Mbare, Cee Jay's is a story of rising from obscurity to prominence through determination, grit and sacrifice -- a theme he explores vigorously in songs such as Sinsi which features Melvin C.
"This album aims to inspire myself and others to soldier on in spite of what life throws at us. It is about striving for success against the odds stacked against you, and also about unity, peace and togetherness. It seeks to bring understanding on who we are as a people, where we are coming from and where we are going."
It is from the humble Mbare surroundings that Cee Jay got acquainted with music, learning to play the acoustic guitar and receiving mentorship from the late Edwin Hama. Growing up at the peak of the reggae phenomenon in the 1980s he could not escape its influence which is telling in his songs such as Huyanga.
"We listened to the late Bob Marley and drew immense inspiration from him. I was also a Lucky Dube fan for whom I wrote a song Tell Me Why dedicated to his memory following his tragic death."
Fort Worth, Texas -- where he is now based -- ushered in the world of hip hop and brought about his first album, Screwed, Blued and Tattooed which, according to Cee Jay, sold over 9 000 copies. This was followed by Desperate Measures which he promoted extensively in the UK and Canada.
Cee Jay says the third album is a break from the mundane themes he explored in previous offerings and is "geared towards enlightening listeners on the challenges of life in the Diaspora" and the attendant problems they pose to the fabric of the family in such songs as Ndinodzoka and Ziyaspora, which bring to the fore that life abroad is not as rosy as it is made out to be.
He salutes the Mannenberg for its efforts to give artists the opportunity to go on the internet and says the powers that be in the industry and government should hasten the process of bringing the music industry into the digital age.
Tomorrow he hosts a CD release party at the Mannenberg, backed by Huggies Entertainment and Spinalong
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