Shaggy (musician)

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Shaggy (musician)

Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968, Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....
, Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
singer who takes his nickname from Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is a long-running Television in the United States animated television series produced for Saturday morning cartoon in several different versions from 1969 to the present....
's companion—a nickname given to him by his friends during his teenage years because his name bore a similarity to the Scooby Doo character. He is especially notable for his distinctive sub-baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
voice. Speaking on 'This Morning' on August 27, 2008, Burrell states the name Shaggy is a reference to his then hairstyle.
family moved to the United States

United States

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from Jamaica and they settled in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, located in New York City

New York City

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Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968, Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Jamaica

Reggae

Scooby-Doo

Baritone

Biography

Early life

His family moved to the United States

United States

Brooklyn

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. Shaggy moved to Valley Stream, New York

Valley Stream, New York

Valley Stream is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village in Nassau County, New York, New York in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 36,368....
, and made one of his own recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for Sound recording and reproduction. Ideally, the space is specially designed by an acoustics to achieve the desired acoustic properties ....
s in the town.

Military service

In 1988, he joined the United States Marine Corps

United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing Military power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver Marine Air-Ground Task Force....
as a Field Artillery Cannon Crewman with 5th Battalion, 10th Marines. While enlisted in the Marines he served during Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
. It was during this time that Shaggy perfected his signature singing voice, breaking the constant monotony of running and marching cadences with his flair for inflection. It is also where he got the inspiration for his song "Mr. Bombastic."

Career

90s

Upon his return from the Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically and commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes Persian Gulf naming dispute referred to as the Arabian Gulf by certain Arab countries or simply The Gulf, although nei...
, he decided to pursue his music career and his first hit in 1993: "Oh Carolina

Oh Carolina

"Oh Carolina" is a song made famous by Shaggy .songwriter by John Folkes, record producer by Prince Buster and performed by The Folkes Brothers in 1960, "Oh Carolina" was a landmark single in the development of Reggae music....
", was a dancehall

Dancehall

Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
re-make of a ska

Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and Calypso music with United States jazz and rhythm and blues....
hit by the Folkes Brothers

Folkes Brothers

The Folkes Brothers were a Jamaican mento group, composed of John, Mico, and Junior Folkes. Their 1960 single "Oh Carolina" was the first hit record record producer by Prince Buster, and is regarded as a landmark in the history of ska and reggae music....
. The same year, Shaggy appeared on Kenny Dope's hip hop album "The Unreleased Project". He worked together with producers such as Sting Intl., Don One (who cut his first track), Lloyd 'Spiderman' Campbell and Robert Livingston. He had further big hits, including "Boombastic

Boombastic (song)

"Boombastic" is the second single released by Shaggy from his album Boombastic. Released in 1995, it achieved huge success in many countries, including Ireland, UK, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia where it topped the singles charts....
" in 1995, the theme tune of a popular Levi's

Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Bavaria, Germany to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business....
commercial.

Early 2000s

He then had a major comeback in 2001, featuring worldwide number-one hit singles "It Wasn't Me

It Wasn't Me

"It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 number one hit single song by reggae musician Shaggy , featuring Ricardo "RikRok" Ducent. It achieved a huge success in many countries, topping the charts in the US, France, UK, the Netherlands, Australia and Ireland....
" and "Angel

Angel (Shaggy song)

"Angel" is a 2001 number one hit single song by reggae musician Shaggy featuring Rayvon. It was the follow-up to Shaggy's United States number-one hit "It Wasn't Me"....
", the latter of which was built around two song samples - Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush

Merrilee Rush is an United States best known as the singing of "Angel of the Morning", a Top 40 record chart song which earned her a Grammy Awards nomination for Female Vocalist Of The Year....
's 1968 hit "Angel of the Morning

Angel of the Morning

"Angel of the Morning" is a hit pop song that has been recorded numerous times, and has been a charting hit single for several artists including John Stamos, Merrilee Rush, P.P....
" (which was remade in 1981 by Juice Newton

Juice Newton

Juice Newton is an American Pop music and Country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories , as well as a Country Music Association Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards ....
), and The Steve Miller Band's 1973 hit "The Joker

The Joker (song)

"The Joker" is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker . The song is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the neologism "pompatus"....
". The album Hot Shot
Hot Shot (album)

Hot Shot is the fifth studio album released by Shaggy in 2000.It sold six million copies in the US alone and has been certified 6x Platinum....
, from which those cuts came, would hit number one on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
and UK album chart.

However, his 2002 release Lucky Day
Lucky Day (Shaggy album)

Lucky Day is the sixth studio album by dancehall/reggae artist Shaggy , which peaked at #24 on the Billboard 200 and later reached Gold certification....
, and the 2005 album Clothes Drop
Clothes Drop

Clothes Drop is the seventh album released by Shaggy in 2005....
failed to match Hot Shots success, although Lucky Day still went gold.

Shaggy remade the Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is a long-running Television in the United States animated television series produced for Saturday morning cartoon in several different versions from 1969 to the present....
theme song on the soundtrack entitled "Shaggy, Where Are You?".

Shaggy recorded the theme for Showtime

Showtime (film)

Showtime is a 2002 in film comedy/action film starring Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro and directed by Tom Dey....
, a 2002 movie
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
.

Late 2000s
On March 11, 2007, Shaggy performed the official song of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, entitled "The Game of Love and Unity", with Barbadian
Barbados

Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....
entertainer Rupee
Rupee (musician)

Rupert Clarke , best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German people mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the United Kingdom armed forces at the time....
and Trinidad
Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and islands of Trinidad and Tobago which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago....
ian Faye-Ann Lyons at the opening ceremony at The Greenfield Stadium, Trelawny
Trelawny Parish, Jamaica

Trelawny is a parish located on the northwest section of Jamaica in the county of Cornwall, Jamaica. Its capital is Falmouth, Jamaica. It is bordered by Saint Ann, Jamaica in the east, Saint James, Jamaica in the west, and Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica and Manchester, Jamaica in the south....
, Jamaica.

Shaggy left Universal
Universal Records

Universal Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as part of The Universal Motown/Universal Republic Group....
and will be releasing his latest album under his own label, Big Yard Records with distribution by VP Records.

On August 2007, he joined Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
in Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
for the Sonnet Music Festival, where they performed "Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Girls Just Want to Have Fun may refer to:* Girls Just Want to Have Fun, the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper* Girls Just Want to Have Fun , starring Sarah Jessica Parker...
".

On October 15, 2007, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction
Order of distinction

The Order of Distinction in Jamaica is the fifth in order of precedence of the Orders of Societies of Honour, which were instituted by an Act of Parliament ? The National Honours and Awards Act....
in the rank of Commander (CD).

In January 2008, Shaggy performed a concert with Natalia and En Vogue
En Vogue

En Vogue is a Grammy nominated United States female Contemporary R&B vocal quartet assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy....
in Antwerp
Antwerp

||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
.

In 2008, UEFA
UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA ....
chose Shaggy to record the official anthem
Anthem

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music , or more generally, a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term "national anthem" or "sports anthem"....
for the Mascots (Trix and Flix) of the Euro 2008 football tournament held in Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
and Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. The song is called "Feel the Rush".

In the summer of 2008 he appeared on Vh1's I Love The New Millenium

On 4 December Intoxication was nominated for Best Reggae Album at the 51st Grammy Awards.

Discography

Albums

1993: Pure Pleasure
Pure Pleasure

Pure Pleasure is the debut album of Jamaican reggae artist Shaggy . It was released in 1993 and featured his first hit single, "Oh Carolina," a dancehall remake of a ska hit by the Folkes Brothers....
1994: Original Doberman
Original Doberman

Original Doberman is the second studio album by Shaggy ....
1995: Boombastic
Boombastic

Boombastic is the third studio album by Shaggy . The title song "Boombastic " was a chart-topper song spending a week at number one on the United States Rhythm and Blues record chart, and a similar stint atop the UK Singles Chart....
US #34, UK #37 (Platinum)
1997: Midnite Lover
Midnite Lover

Midnite Lover is the fourth studio album by Shaggy . The follow-up to Shaggy's career-making Boombastic, features dancehall remake of "Oh Carolina", cover of Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart" and Bob Marley's "Thank You Lord" featuring vocals by Ky-Mani Marley....
(Platinum)
2000: Hot Shot
Hot Shot (album)

Hot Shot is the fifth studio album released by Shaggy in 2000.It sold six million copies in the US alone and has been certified 6x Platinum....
US #1, UK #1 (6x Platinum)
2002: Lucky Day
Lucky Day (Shaggy album)

Lucky Day is the sixth studio album by dancehall/reggae artist Shaggy , which peaked at #24 on the Billboard 200 and later reached Gold certification....
US #24 (Gold)
2005: Clothes Drop
Clothes Drop

Clothes Drop is the seventh album released by Shaggy in 2005....
US #144
2007: Intoxication
Intoxication (album)

Intoxication is the eighth studio album released by Shaggy in 2007. Shaggy has already released a video for the song called "Church Heathen", the first single from the album in the United Kingdom....
2008: Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection
Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection

Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection is a greatest hits by artist Shaggy released in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2008. It reached number 22 in the UK albums chart...
UK #22

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Shaggy interview

Shaggy (musician)

Biography

Early life

Military service

Career

90s

Early 2000s

Late 2000s

Discography

Albums

See also

See also

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