Veteran dancehall entertainer Bounty Killer has had his visa to the UK reinstated.
In an Instagram put up on Monday, Bounty Killer shared a photograph of the visa web page in his passport, with the caption: “New albomb [album], new visa it’s a brand new arising just like the Phoenix. So who fi begin shed weight, do it now. Unuh stated mi couldn’t get again nuh visa however a God in management. By no means will I ever bow, stoop, bend nor promote out.”
A number of dancehall entertainers together with Cham, Serani, Kemar Highcon, Pamputtae, Delly Ranks, and Fast Prepare dinner congratulated the 51-year-old deejay on getting the inexperienced gentle to journey to the UK.
US visa woes
Whereas the deejay is celebrating now with the ability to journey to the U.Okay., he’s nonetheless unable to journey to the US — a scenario the entertainer described as “devastating” to his music profession and household.
In a YouTube interview revealed final week, the warlord opened up concerning the challenges he has confronted in having his U.S. visa canceled for over a decade.
“I don’t know what I did to not have a visa for 13 years, however up till at the present time, di embassy nuh actually have a good rationalization for me,” the entertainer stated.
“I don’t even know the way I survive,” he defined. “Most of my followers are within the U.S., and that’s the place the music market is largest, and I can’t even get to go promote my songs or greet my followers and even my household, my children. I obtained a number of children within the U.S., so this affected me devastatingly.”
The entertainer acknowledged that for 13 years, he had been touring to the US on waivers, up till 2010 when he together with Beenie Man, Sizzla, Mavado, and Aidonia, have been “barred from boarding any US-bound craft.” Mavado and Aidonia have since had their visas reinstated.
Whereas the visa revocation had negatively impacted his profession, Bounty Killer stated that he’s grateful for the position that social media has performed, in serving to to bridge the hole to his U.S. followers. His Verzuz battle against Beenie Man, for instance, allowed him to interact together with his North American viewers.
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“Properly, the best factor is we inna the period of social media. That’s probably the most presence I’ve with my followers in America,” Bounty Killer stated. “As you’ll be able to see, the Verzuz was the closest connection I obtained with the followers. So, these little panels, and social media and we on-line live shows — that’s the closest I can get to my followers in America.”
Bounty Killer is presently selling ‘Time Bomb’, a joint EP with Cham with whom he just lately collaborated on a number of singles. The seven-track challenge is in celebration of Dave Kelly’s Madhouse Information’ thirtieth anniversary.
