Shaggy

May 21st 2008 - RADIO NIGHT 2008: ARSENAL 221 in Vienna www.event-marketing.com/arsenal221/termine.php
May 25th 2008 - 105.5 The Beat (WBTT) Summer Jam 2008
May 31st 2008 - DJ Willie Daniels Birthday Bash @ The Water Street Music Hall, Rochester
June 6th 2008 - TV Total: Stefan Raab’s Autoball Europameisterschaft 2008 - Cologne Germany
June 7th 2008 Afternoon - “UEFA Club”: VIP hospitality event (Track show) - Basel, Switzerland
June 7th 2008 Night - Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria sponsored by Telekom Austria - Vienna, Austria www.telekom.at/Content.Node/media/news/en/0428-uefa-euro.php
June 8th 2008 - UEFA Fan Zone - Klagenfurt, Austria
June 15th 2008 - Antigua Romantic Rhythms Music Festival 2008
June 21st 2008 - Afro-Latino Festival - Bree, Belgium
June 22nd & 23rd 2008 - Turkey - Secret venue/Surprise show- No tickets
June 28th 2008 - Garance Reggae Festival - Paris France
July 4th 2008 - Reggae Im Park - Hamburg Germany
July 5th 2008 - SummerJam - Colgne Germany
July 6th 2008 - Two Sevens Splash - Amsterdam Netherlands
July 12th 2008 - Splash Festival - Chemnitz Germany
July 26th 2008 - Blue Balls Festival - Switzerland
Aug 2nd 2008 - RPR1 Open Air 2008, Mainz, Germany
Aug 14th 2008 - Afrika Karibik Festival 08 "One Race Human" - Festplatz in Aschaffenburg Germany
Aug 22nd 2008 - Krone Stadtfest 2008 - Linz, Austria
Aug 23rd 2008 - Chiemsee Festival - Munich Germany
Aug 30th 2008 - Czech Republic
Make your own photo slide show with Shaggy's What's Love feat Akon!
After one decade, six albums, two of them multi-platinum, five 1 hits, and eleven top ten singles world wide, Grammy winning Big Yard recording artist Shaggy is still on the grind. Making music that celebrates his culture and being an ambassador for Reggae music has always been the driving force in the heart of Jamaica’s only living Diamond-plus selling artist.
In the early 1990’s Shaggy entered the scene with his deep throaty remix of the Ska classic ‘Oh Carolina’, the first major Reggae record to come out of the dancehall underground. Soon after, the steady dub rhythm of the platinum selling Boombastic solidified Shaggy as a dancehall hit-maker winning the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
When Hotshot dropped in 2000 no one could have predicted that this was going to be the album to set Shaggy totally apart from any artist on the dancehall stage. Hotshot, the best-selling album in 2001, sold over 13 million albums world wide and topped the charts in the US, UK, Germany and Australia simultaneously. The album was seven times platinum certified in Canada and six times platinum in the US. Hotshot rocketed to the top of the charts with two phenomenal singles, “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel”, which featured Big Yard protégés Rik Rok and Rayvon, respectively.
Fall of 2005 found Shaggy releasing Clothes Drop an album that gave his audience chart topping dancehall singles like “Wild2Nite” and “Ready Fi Di Ride”. Steady contributions to the dancehall are what keep Shaggy current. He is one of very few Reggae artists who always have a fresh new record pulsing through the dancehall market. And fall 2006 being no exception, he released one to keep the masses guessing with “Reggae Vibes”, a well-received tune that finds Shaggy taking on the role of singing. “Vibes” is the first song to ever feature this famed deejay singing, just more proof that with Shaggy’s ingenuity anything is possible.
To date, Shaggy has sold over 20 million albums, but he doesn’t take that achievement lightly. Knowing that records are meant to be broken, today we find Shaggy in the studio putting the finishing touches on his eagerly anticipated but still untitled album due in 2007. “Church Heathen” on Big Yard’s new Heathen riddim is the hottest new song in heavy rotation on Jamaican radio and in the clubs, and this single is just a taste of what’s to come. In his new project Shaggy is going full circle, pulling together the original crew for collaborations that include artists such as Redd Foxx and Screechy Dan, alongside side Rik Rok and the ever-solid Rayvon. For production, the project boasts the creative excellence of Sting International, Robert Livingston, Tony Kelly, Christopher Birch, and Dave Kelly. Working from his strong foundation and always expecting the best, Shaggy is doing his part to make good music, make a difference and prove that the ‘world is just one big yard!!’