Nigel ‘Nigy Boy’ Hector, the 23 12 months previous New York-based visually impaired reggae artist from Montego Bay, Jamaica making his Sumfest debut at Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay.
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Nigel “Nigy Boy” Hector, the 23-year-old New York-based visually impaired reggae artist from Montego Bay, Jamaica returned to his hometown just lately in making his beautiful Reggae Sumfest debut.
Anthony Turner, the New York-based Jamaican leisure publicist, instructed Caribbean Life on Tuesday that Nigy Boy shocked attendees with “a blistering efficiency that left many reggae lovers shocked.
“They might not consider that the blind artist, who was led on the huge essential stage, wearing an area swimsuit towards a backdrop in intergalactic props, is definitely new to the reggae enterprise and solely dropped his first hit document, ‘Continent’, a number of months in the past,” stated Turner, who can also be a Jamaican native.
“For over half-hour, from Saturday night time into the wee hours of Sunday morning, Nigy Boy battered Catherine Corridor like hurricane ‘Dutty Gal Beryl’, with a barrage of hits that had the festive, close to capability viewers screaming for extra,” he added.
Turner stated Nigy’s set began with gospel favourite “Approach Maker”, and included hits “Judgement”, “Nomad”, and “Tremendous Girl”, which was devoted to his mother, in addition to a canopy of Dexta Daps’ “Breaking Information” and Kranium’s “No one Has To Know”.
After an “out of this world” efficiency on Evening Two of Reggae Sumfest, Turner stated the explosive climax got here in direction of the tip of Nigy Boy’s “razzle dazzle” along with his greatest identified hit, “Continent.”
When his efficiency ended, Turner stated Nigy Boy was honored with the 2024 Silver Montego Bay Sumfest Metropolis Award from the St. James Municipal Company for his excellent achievement in leisure.
Turner stated the presentation was made by Mayor of Montego Bay Richard Vernon.
On stage for the presentation with Vernon have been Joe Bogdanovich, chief govt officer of Downsound Leisure, and Robert Russell, deputy chair of Reggae Sumfest, Turner stated.
In accepting the quotation and award, the “Continent Boss” thanked his many supporters.
“I simply wanna say it was a privilege being right here, and I like how every little thing got here full circle,” Turner quoted Nigy Boy as saying. “My first ever efficiency was within the place I got here from, Montego Bay.
“I admire all of you for popping out,” he added to loud cheers from the capability crowd. “The love is actual; one coronary heart.”
Sumfest’s head honcho Joe Bogdanovich instructed Caribbean Life: “We achieved the wow issue. We witnessed it from the manufacturing set. We noticed it when singer Lauren Hill joined her son YG Marley. and we noticed it with Babyface.
“The pre-events have been the most effective within the historical past of Sumfest since 2016,” he added. “We noticed it on the faces of the audiences at every occasion. Nothing however pleasure they skilled. Nice venue design, nice music, fabulous meals, and good vibes offered.”
By way of the financial affect, Bogdanovich stated: “Each resort room in Montego Bay was offered out. You couldn’t get a room.
“The airbnbs have been just about offered out as nicely,” he added. “And that is all the best way from Negril to Ocho Rios. I believe it acquired to be US$50 million in gross sales in Montego Bay the week of Sumfest, which was a brand new document. That’s loads of hen.”
