by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – When actor TV Boss received a name from director Jay Will to look within the music video for Til A Mawnin, the most recent music by Sting and Shaggy, he accepted the provide immediately. It’s the Jamaican’s thirtieth music video credit score and his favourite.
The video was filmed in New York Metropolis.
TV Boss mentioned he loved working with the Grammy winners and Jay Will, the main music video director in dancehall-reggae.
“It was a cool vibe, every part was professionally accomplished as you’d count on. It was nice working with Jay Will and being within the presence of two icons,” he informed South Florida Caribbean Information.
Since making his debut in Jahmiel’s True Colours video 10 years in the past, TV Boss has been recruited by different high artists similar to Busy Sign and Stephen Marley to play primarily comedic roles of their visuals.
He credit appearances in Busy Sign’s Keep So and Rock Stone by Marley, Capleton and Sizzla, for exposing him to broader audiences. These performances caught the eyes of Jay Will, who was born in Jamaica and raised in Fort Lauderdale.
TV Boss is from Portland parish in japanese Jamaica. He graduated from the Edna Manley Faculty of the Visible and Performing Arts in Kingston. He started performing in highschool. His large break got here in The Ity And Fancy Cat Present, a well-liked TV present in Jamaica.
He spoke concerning the reggae video’s development over time and his position in its evolution.
First time, you simply had the artist and a woman, nothing else. With folks like me you get a brief story and a few humor with substance,” he famous.
Til A Mawnin is Jay Will’s newest challenge with Shaggy. Beforehand, they labored on the video for Church Heathen, the deejay’s 2009 hit, and the charity-based Save A Life by Shaggy and Buddies.
Jay Will, a graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, has additionally directed movies by Sean Paul, Beenie Man, TOK, Etana and Alison Hinds.
For TV Boss, Til A Mawnin is a game-changer.
“Little doubt, it’s an enormous deal for me. I count on it to open much more doorways for me,” he mentioned.
