Short Man Jiggy Bio = Jonathan was born in North London in Wembley. Moved to Kingston Jamaica at the age of 4 growing up learning the social life and culture. Then After seven long years, at the age of eleven he moved back to the UK in Bristol with his mum and older sister. School life at St. Thomas More was full of madness and adventure loads of new meet family and friends (Boi 2 Much 2 Say). Anyway by the time of the age of 15 Jon loved the desire of collecting Music CD’s. He felt he needed every exclusive Urban Chart hit that brought excitement around him. The only problem was he never expressed his talent to be known as a DJ. Him and his older sister would always compete at having the most music. She had the most old skool R&B and slow jams, which he needed to have for the ladies. As time went by he maturely realised that the R&B could take him far in the DJ industry, as he was more dedicated to hip-hop and reggae/dancehall.
Within that same year his sister put on a sweet 16 house party and as Jon had his music already prepared for this kind of event the first thing she wanted to find out if he could now please an audience. He was a bit nervous but receive the respect of cheers and shouts from the party individuals. As confidence was growing he wanted to promote himself to be known around his teenage generation.
As the year pass on Jon had left school and kept in touch with school friends who were doing their own music carer but recording UK grime vocals. The crew had five members and were called fatality. They were producing lyrics back-to-back on the Internet radio Trinity. Jon was so dedicated to be known and joined fatality changing his DJ name to Young$ta as being the youngest member in the crew. At every radio session Young$ta would have a 2 hour slot every once a week as practicing his juggling skills including UK grime instrumentals for every fatality slot. This brought a higher level of energy around his peers in the underground grime seen. The fatality name then changed to B.S.L (Bristol Street Link) having the other original DJ leaving for his own purposes. Young$ta and the B.S.L. camp began performing raves and talent shows at such known clubs as Romeo Browns, Gate Cafe, Kumba Project, Club UK,and the Thekla boat. As the crew’s reputation was succeeding in the grime waves in Bristol, as always-street wars started occurring. It got to a stage were it came pointless focusing on the battle and not promoting the carer of B.S.L. and the owners of some clubs in the Bristol centre didn’t like the idea of deep in the streets grime bringing in violent behaviour.
Later that year Young$ta and Mega both left the B.S.L. camp as they both felt they wanted more to the music industry they desired. They both were thinking about ideas but nothing came up. When they both went to a fire works rave they both remember they both has the same love for reggae/dancehall music and the culture itself. As the tunes were bumping other old friends from school formed a reggae/dancehall dance group called Jiggy Ryders, with highly production of entertainment. Both Young$ta and Mega had the same professional dancing skills and joined the Ryders which now altogether has 7 members. They all began locking the dance floor seen in such places as Bristol, Luton, Gloucester and London Carnival alongside fusion hi-power. Young$ta, Mega and Fifty formed a DJ crew alongside with the Ryders (DANCEHALL GENERALS) as generals of hyping the dance floor. Now Young$ta again changed his name to Short Man Jiggy. As being the shortest talented energy dancer in the Jiggy Ryders. At this current time Short Man Jiggy, Mega and Fifty have been doing random clashes back-to-back adapting to the art of mixing and selecting. Since September 2006 generals have been doing Internet Radio privately with street team locking in to listeners who are requesting tunes they want to hear every Monday from 5:45pm to 7pm. Also they have been playing as such popular clubs in Bristol such as MuMus, Blue Mountain,Black Swan, Bristol Carnival 2007, Club Capri, Rose Green, Lebeq Pub club Comfi up Clifton. Look out for upcoming raves which will be printed on the website. and for Mega’s bio look at megz interactive on the bottom right hand screen.
