Over a two weeks ago, Bell Lager's music platform Bell Jamz together with Swangz Avenue announced the coming of two renowned Jamaican reggae singers, Christopher Martin and D-Major as the headlining performers at the Bell Jamz All Star Concert grand finale slated for August 23 at Lugogo Cricket Oval.
As we build up to the concert, we unveil some of the interesting facts about Chris Martin and D-Major that you probably did not know.
Chris Martin
Born Christopher Martin Christopher Oteng Martin in Back Pasture, St. Catherine, Jamaica on February 14 1987. He is a reggae/dancehall singer and songwriter. Martin attended the Water mount All-Age School and later graduated from Jago High School. He started singing way back in high school and went on to become the first Digicel Rising Stars Alumni (Jamaican version of American Idol). This saw him release a hit single on the charts in Jamaica. According to Chris Martin, his parents are his sources of inspiration and motivation in pursuing music.
He was once quoted saying, “My parents and my peers at school really motivated me. They always said that I would be a star".
Chris Martin has released songs like ‘Paper Loving’, ‘Tonight’, Cheater’s Prayer, ‘Big deal’, among others.
D-Major
Born Damian Codlin, D-Major grew up in Kingston, Jamaica with a single mother. D-Major draws his inspiration from reggae icon King Yellowman. He attended Calabar High school where he started out as lead vocalist of Q-T, a quintet and later launched his solo career in 2005. He adopted the stage name ‘D-Major’ which he described, “D is the initial of my first name and Major was given to me by a friend of mine because Major is a musical term and it is more uplifting than Minor of course./D-Major’s first authored material ‘Tell Me Who’ was produced by prominent guitarist Ernie Wilks. Soon after his solo debut, Major released several other songs like ‘That’s what loves about’, ‘People Make the World Go Around’, ‘Sunshine’ and ‘Won’t Separate’, ‘Girl of My Dreams’. D-Major has collaborated with Christopher Martin and Agent Sasco on “Real Friends” and Busy Signal and Richie Loops on “Party Like it’s Your Birthday”.
These hits helped to propel D-Major to mainstream success in Jamaica and on the international music scene.
