Andy Livingston & Clement Gordon, sound sweet @ Original Dancehall Thursdays - Reggae Month 2024.

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Reggae crooner Andy Livingston has been in the music business professionally for over a decade now. It was his good friend, veteran artiste U U Madoo who officially introduced him to the music world when he took him to Sugar Minott's Youth Man Promotion studio. During his time at Youthman Promotion, he learned a lot about the music business from the late dancehall pioneer Lincoln 'Sugar' Minott.
"I can remember how I wanted to leave high school after I finished fifth form and go straight into music, but Sugar Minott advised me to go to sixth form instead because he believed that I should have a solid foundation, in terms of a good education, before entering the music business full time," said Livingston.
"After completing high school, I got a job at Cable and Wireless. Fortunately, we had a company band and I was the lead singer. We performed on a lot of company events which helped to keep me sharp musically, although I had put my thoughts of being a professional singer on hold," he said.
In 1995, Livingston gave up the corporate world for music and decided to launch in the music business full-time. This led to the creation and the launch of his own record label, Fan Club Music. From that point on, he spent a great deal of his time producing and promoting his music. He also produced and released songs for several other artists including Capleton, Frankie Paul, Tanya Stephens, Junior Kelly, Jack Radics, Natural Blacks, Monster Shack Crew, Papa San, Lady G, and Daddy Rings.
Livingston, however, got his first real taste of success as an artiste in 1996 with a single called Pumping, which was done with Lady G. This song got a lot of airplay and made its way onto several reggae charts around the world. The success of Pumping landed him a deal with California-based independent record label, Big Time Records in 1997. He followed up this success with the radio hit Searching For Love, which was eventually licensed to Jet Star Records and was included on several England-based companies' top reggae compilations.
Although nothing much came out of his record deal with Big Time Records, Livingston was so engrossed in the music business that he decided to set up his own recording studio in 1998. He did so with the help of his long-time friend and associate, Third World group member Herbie Harris.
While this seemed like a good move at the time, it hampered the progress of his singing career somewhat, because he ended up spending a lot of time producing other artists.
However, in 2005, Andy closed down the studio to fully concentrate on his own career. He found more success in 2007 with a cover of One Republic's Too Late. The popularity of this song abroad earned him several appearances at events in the UK and the US.
Reggae singer Andy Livingston is pleased with the response to his latest single titled Dancehall featuring Busy Signal.
The song was released in September and since then it has been enjoying heavy rotation both locally and overseas.
“I am extremely happy with the response this song has received since it was released. It’s getting tremendous airplay from DJs in Jamaica, the US, the UK, Europe, and Africa. I’m not surprised at all by the level of support it’s getting because it’s a very good song and Busy Signal is one of the giants in dancehall music,” he said.
“I’ve been very active on the Kingston live show scene lately. My most recent performance was at Reggae Wednesdays. I performed a set that was well received by the audience which included songs such as Dancehall, No Solution, and Jamaica Running Red.”
Andy Livingston also revealed that he’s working on several new projects that he plans to release next year.
Gordon, who has been recording for over 35 years, says there was no difficulty making the transition to reggae.
“It was easy because you are working with people who know what they are doing. They have been doing this for donkey years and I have been around for years also,” he stated.
Singer, Clement Gordon, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. He is strongly influenced by the ska and rock steady movement in his country during the 1960s, as well as American R&B. His best-known songs are Granny and This Old Heart of Mine.
Throughout his 45-year career, Clement Gordon has worked with or watched some of the best producers in the music business including Clement Dodd, Jackie Mittoo, and Sly and Robbie.
The ‘lessons’ he got from those legends served him well when he began recording songs. Gordon produced ‘I Second That Emotion’, his latest song which was originally done by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.
Gordon finds directing himself, and musicians, in the studio to be an enjoyable experience.
“The benefits are, you can get something out of it and you don't have to argue with no one,” he said.

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