by Howard Campbell
PHILADELPHIA – For individuals who knew Peter Brown, he was a selfless soul with a coronary heart of gold. When the gospel singer died in Jamaica in July, 2023, it was a physique blow to household and people related along with his ministry.
Wildfire Information, a Philadelphia-based firm that labored with Brown, not too long ago reissued One Extra Contact: Numerous Artists Vol 2, a compilation album that includes a number of of his songs.
The challenge was initially launched in 2007. It has 19 songs, seven of which characteristic the Trench City-reared Brown who lived in Philadelphia for a few years.
Earl Messam, a Jamaican who heads Wildfire Information, mentioned the album by no means received satisfactory promotion in its first run. Following Brown’s loss of life, he determined to re-release the set and provides it and Brown their deserved recognition.
“Anyone who knew Peter was touched by his humility and kindness. He was a real man of God,” mentioned Messam.
On Indicators of The Time, one of many songs from ‘One Extra Contact’, Brown collaborates with Claudell Clarke, a pioneer of gospel-reggae.
Brown was born in Kingston and raised in Trench City, the legendary neighborhood the place artists similar to Bob Marley and The Wailers, Alton Ellis and Delroy Wilson first made their mark. His profession began there on expertise occasions, but it surely was not till he migrated to america in 1990 that Brown started to file songs.
Lots of his songs had been produced by Messam, a number one participant in Philadelphia reggae.
