Adrian Bailey on keyboards at SVG forty fourth Anniversary Independence Ball.
Picture by Nelson A. King
The newly-formed, Brooklyn-based D Magma Band is already making waves and producing prime quality musical leisure in New York Metropolis.
“The bands main mission is to ship prime quality musical leisure right here within the Diaspora by fusing our Caribbean music kinds with different worldwide genres, thus creating a product which may be extra interesting to a wider viewers,” stated Adrain Bailey, the band’s Vincentian-born co-founder and ace musical arranger, in an unique Caribbean Life interview on Sunday.
Bailey stated D Magma Band has carried out lower than 10 occasions since its inception and is “already making a buzz right here within the Diaspora and on social media.
“Our mission is to take our model and magnificence of music to all social strata, thus rekindling delight and classiness to our Caribbean music,” he stated.
Bailey stated the band’s latest efficiency on the Ragga Soca Fest in Brooklyn was “phenomenal,” that includes two of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ excellent artists, Poorsah and Hance, “who carried out alongside Magma in a wonderful showcase of creativity and expertise, as we celebrated with delight the forty fourth Anniversary of Independence” of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Then, on Sunday Oct. 29, on the Gala St. Vincent and the Grenadines Independence Anniversary Ball, at Russo’s on the Bay, in Howard Seaside, Queens, D Magma band “once more shocked the viewers with an aesthetic efficiency that highlighted a good portion of Vincentian hits that had the viewers dancing and screaming in jubilation from the second they began the dance section,” Bailey stated.
“It was, certainly, welcomed by all, as this facet of stay leisure had been so missing within the occasion for fairly a couple of years,” he stated, including that the band’s aim is to supply “a worthy portal for our music to be heard exterior of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in addition to to protect the wealthy heritage of stay band music that the Vincentian group is so happy with.”
Bailey stated he and Singer Extraordinaire Chanique Rogers fashioned the band in 2019 “after seeing the dearth of stay bands with concentrate on all kinds of Caribbean music and never simply reggae.”
He stated the phrase “magma” can be “not an summary one, because it represents the volcanic nature of the Caribbean islands, and is the supply of our ‘Black Sand’ seashores, that are naturally ‘scorching’ within the tropics.”
Bailey is not any stranger to bands; he was the lead keyboardist and musical director of two main profitable bands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Blacksand and Hottsand.
These bands toured extensively within the Caribbean, america, Canada and England, stated Bailey, who can be the legendary music producer behind a lot of the music rising from St. Vincent and the Grenadines over the previous 25 years, together with the mega worldwide hit “Flip Me On” by Kevin Lyttle.
Rogers can be no stranger to the leisure world; she is actively concerned within the New York music circuit and has carried out alongside well-known artistes, reminiscent of former Woman of Stylish Alfa Anderson; world famend singer and music composer Aziza Miller; and violinist Daisy Joplin.
As well as, Rogers has carried out on ABC’s daytime tv present “The Chew”, alongside the RCE Ensemble.
Rogers can be a singer with the Brooklyn Interdenominational Choir and the Actors Chapel Choir on Broadway.
Members of D Magma Band are primarily Vincentian nationals: Bailey (producer and keyboardist); Rogers (lead singer); Deuel Anderson (lead singer, previously of Ninja Band, “half Vincy”); Perron “Perry” Hazell (lead guitarist, previously of Stable Band); Ike Jeffers (bass guitarist, previously of Astericks and Stable Band); and Trinidadian Willfred “Wiz” Kieal (percussionist/drummer).
You possibly can observe D Magma Band on all social media platforms @Dmagmaband, or name 718-427-0385 or 917-853-8441 for extra data.
