In 2005 Nasio recorded the album Universal Cry at Long View in Massachusetts and Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the UK collaborating with producer Richard Evans. Living in the Positive was released by Ras Records in 2004. His first full length CD Reggae Power (1994) was followed by Wolf Catcher (1997) and Revolution (1999). Maarten (the island’s biggest ever selling single), and followed it with the EP Babylon is Falling in 1990. He recorded his first 12-inch single “Born to Be Free” in 1986, which sold over 5,000 copies in St. Maarten where he became influenced by Rastafari and reggae artists such as Joseph Hill, Burning Spear, Jacob Miller, and Bob Marley, to whom he is often compared. In 1981, he moved from Dominica to the island of St. He was inspired at an early age by calypso artists and soul musicians such as Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye. His father, Atto, made his very first instrument, a piece of board with fishing lines for strings. Nasio had a habit of making instruments out of everything he could find. When he was eight years old, Nasio began singing in the Bagatelle school and the village Catholic church choirs. Nasio is the youngest of seven children born to a Carib Indian mother and father of African descent, in the village of Carte-Bois. Nasio Fontaine The Best Of Greatest Hits Mix By Djeasy
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