Raga-Z was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. As a child, he was exposed to music whilst attending church with his mother, Beverly. This played a major role in encouraging his love for music and planted the seeds for his talents to grow. He was also introduced to the culture of reggae music through his father who began to notice Raga’s potential and passion for the art and encouraged him. Although times were not always easy growing up, his determination to succeed as a reggae artist never w...
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Raga-Z was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. As a child, he was exposed to music whilst attending church with his mother, Beverly. This played a major role in encouraging his love for music and planted the seeds for his talents to grow. He was also introduced to the culture of reggae music through his father who began to notice Raga’s potential and passion for the art and encouraged him. Although times were not always easy growing up, his determination to succeed as a reggae artist never went away, in fact they only became stronger. In his free time, he even found himself doing things such as creating instruments using paint pans to make a beat to play while he would DJ . As he grew older, he and his cousins used to sneak out of the house to go and listen to sounds of Sterograph , Stereo One, and Killamanjaro. He also began to work with and learn from sounds such as Black Scorpio, King Jammys, King Agony, Love Rock, View Master, and many others. He later befriended the following artists; Jah Zarro, General Trees, The Late Pan Head, Mickey Melody, Devano, Kabeeba, I- Kushna, Booma Rankin, Mickey General, Luciano, Ghost, I-Wayne, Lady G, Beetle Bailey and many more. He also had the opportunity to record with many of them . He has worked with various labels such as Black Scorpio Label, Abvi Musik, M Productions, Carvel Musik, Warriors Musik and Shyeim Records. In addition, Raga has been affiliated with some top producers such as Ansil Collins, Joe Gibbs, and many more. His new Album consists of Ride With Me, Rude Operator, 7 or 11, Two nuh fi show, Sexy Chicks, Why Me, Just Gotta Be Mine, Wine baby Wine, Good loving, Party People, Who Say Jah Jah Dead and Independent Woman. Raga-Z has also made music videos, one of which is called ‘Defend It’ courtesy of M Productions. Raga-Z is an energetic and full-of-life artist - an all-rounder who caters for the pallets of not only the 'old school' but new style dancehall and lovers of hip-hop. A very versatile artist with a unique voice. Look out for this man, he is something just that bit special!! In his words, ~Jah Bless~ ****************************************************************
