by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – Pointing to the profitable strategy of unbiased report labels like Motown and Studio One, musician/producer JonFX says his FX Music Group plans to information artists in several features of the music enterprise. The corporate is scheduled to be formally launched on June 1 at Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale.
The Jamaican, a longtime South Florida resident, is finest recognized for producing songs by rapper XXXtentacion, Vybz Kartel, Gyptian and Sizzla.
“Our objective is to nurture and develop rising artists from all over the world, who shall be educated and skilled in each side of the enterprise of music. We’re dedicated to offering artists with the very best caliber sound and musical manufacturing potential,” JonFX insisted.
He added that the Blue Martini launch is the primary of a number of occasions to introduce FX Music Group to completely different markets. The corporate’s preliminary releases are albums by JonFX saluting the classic eras (1960, Nineteen Seventies and Eighties) of Jamaican music.
“There are a number of upcoming tasks that shall be introduced nearer to completion, we’re excited to share them with the world,” mentioned JonFX, who was born John Crawford in Kingston.
A prodigy, his expertise was first seen whereas taking part in keyboards in his father’s church in Jamaica. As an adolescent, JonFX turned a session musician at Caveman Studio in east Kingston.
He moved to the USA within the Nineties. He settled in New York Metropolis. There, he met Glen Adams, an organist with The Upsetters. This band performed with The Wailers on well-known songs like Duppy Conqueror and Mr. Brown.
Transferring to South Florida, his status soared after producing the early songs of XXXtentacion, a platinum-selling rapper from Plantation, whose mother and father are Jamaican. He was murdered in Deerfield Seashore, Florida in June, 2018.
JonFX has additionally labored with Guyanese gospel singer Renwick Duesbury and roots artist Jahman from the US Virgin Islands.
