VP Data helps Reggae followers gear up for the Christmas season with the discharge of a star-studded covers album, “Reggae Christmas Classics,” which encompasses a numerous solid of artists.
The eleven observe undertaking, launched on Friday, was recorded between Mixing Lab, Penthouse Studios, and Tuff Gong Studios. Manufacturing duties have been break up between Dean Fraser and Clive Hunt.
As for vocals, Christopher Martin works his magic on the joyous “This Christmas,” Shuga dazzles together with her rendition of Mariah Carey’s seasonal blockbuster “All I Need For Christmas Is You,” and Mikey Spice places his distinctive spin on “The Christmas Tune (Merry Christmas To You).”
A lineup of different vocalists together with Lukie D, Nikki D, Ikaya, Olaf Blackwood, Nadine Sutherland, and Thriller U added their very own distinct contact to Christmas classics like “Feliz Navidad” and “It’s The Most Great Time Of the Yr,” amongst others.
Robbie Lyn additionally delivers an instrumental model of “Sometime at Christmas,” produced by Clive Hunt, whereas legendary Dean Fraser collaborates with Ubuntu to breathe new life into “Silver Bells.” Duane Stephenson contributes the only unique observe with “Golden Nights (In December).”
Reflecting on the undertaking, A&R Richard “Shams” Browne shares, “Dane Bogle (credited as assistant A&R) and I’ve wished to place collectively a VP Data Christmas album for the previous 4 or 5 years. This yr, we lastly bought the inexperienced mild. We drafted a shortlist of producers and artists, and from there, the undertaking got here collectively fairly easily.”
“It’s all the time a pleasure working with nice producers like Dean and Clive, in addition to the proficient artists who participated, with every of them recording as in the event that they’re performing for a reside viewers. With everybody bringing their A-game, this can be my favourite undertaking of the yr,” he concluded.
The Reggae Christmas Classics album is obtainable for buy and on streaming platforms.