Jah Cure - Royal Soldier @ Festiville 2019

LIFE IS REAL

Jah Cure has been at the forefront of Jamaican reggae music for 22 years due to his incredible talent and relentless work ethic. From the time Beres Hammond produced and released his debut single, a duet with Sizzla called King In This Jungle, Cure has proven that he can compete and collaborate with Jamaica’s most revered vocalists and consistently put out some of the best music in the genre. Jah Cure entered the scene in ‘97 and became Reggae’s hottest young prodigy, recording and releasing three albums while imprisoned - Free Jah’s Cure: The Album, The Truth in 2000, Ghetto Life in 2003 (also produced by Beres Hammond), and Freedom Blues in 2005. True Reflections... A New Beginning was released in 2007, just three days after Cure was released from prison. The success of the albums and the controversy surrounding his imprisonment kept the young singer in the spotlight, despite his

incarceration. “Free Jah Cure” became a rallying cry. Not even prison bars could contain the artist’s larger-than-life persona. Never one to be boxed in, Cure’s music slowly spread off the island and into R&B and Hip Hop markets for decades, earning him music industry clout in the US, even though he does not have a visa to travel there. His influence on the US hit a high-water mark in 2015 when his last album, The Cure, earned a Grammy nod for Best Reggae Album.