This album showcased a more conscious side to Banton as he spoke of social issues a lot on this album.
Epic!īuju did not stop there and just a year later in 1993 he released Voice of Jamaica under the Mercury label. His multiple number one hits saw him beating the record of most number one hits previously held by the great Robert Nesta Marley. Two of his biggest songs Love Me Browning and Love Black Woman were released in 1992 as well. Together they released songs such as Bogle, How It Ago Go, Man A Look Yuh and Batty Rider as well as many other hits on Buju’s ground-breaking album Mr. His debut album Stamina Daddy (later retitled Quick) was released with The Ruler as the lead single. In 1991 he joined Donavon Germain’s Penthouse Record's label and met Dave Kelly the producer at the studio. The release of his first single got him on the radar of other producers such as Bunny Lee and Winston Riley whom he also got to work with. The term Banton is used in Jamaica to describe a person who is a great storyteller and that is one thing that Buju hoped to achieve with his music, he wanted to tell stories. Banton was the name used by another artiste, Burro Banton, who was a popular deejay in the 80s and 90s. The second name, Banton, was to pay homage to those musicians who had come before him. The first name Buju came from the nickname he had always had as a child, which he decided to keep as his stage name. Where did the name Buju Banton come from? He was introduced to Robert French, a record producer at the time and by 1987 at age 14 his first song The Ruler was released to the public. He began working with the sound systems Sweet Love and Rambo Mango, but that was not all. This was just the beginning for a young Buju Banton. However, it wasn’t until the age of 12 when he, under the stage name Gargamel, (which he is still known as by many) he delivered his very first lyrics. Buju often got the opportunity to see his favourites, as well as other local talents, perform at local shows and dancehalls. It would have been a challenge not to have known of Dancehall and Reggae music as a child growing up in the 70s and 80s, especially Buju’s community and the ones surrounding it. The name Buju, is the nickname given to him by his mother because of his insatiable appetite even at a young age. Mark grew up as the youngest and only boy of 16 children.
He spent his childhood living at Salt Lane in Kingston, Jamaica. On the 15th of July 1973, Mark Anthony Myrie was born to parents Merlene and Benjamin Myrie who were respectively a street vendor and a tile worker. Click Here to watch my latest videos on my fun YouTube channel - you'll love it!
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