Raga-Z was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. He comes from a large family which includes 8 sisters and 9 brothers. His early experiences, as a child, included being exposed to music while 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.
Raga grew up living in areas that included Seaview Gardens, Drewsland, St. Ann, Waterhouse, Riverton City, and Calaloo Bed. He also attended Edith Dalton James High School, Friendship Primary, and Planters all age School. Although times were not always easy growing up, his determination to succeed as a reggae artist never went away, it 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 very grateful for all the successes he has accomplished and intends on taking his musical achievements to an even higher level. He is humble and very thankful to God for being blessed with his abilities and for allowing him to share these talents with his fans. He is also very grateful for all of the love, encouragement and support that has been shown to him. In his words, ~Jah Bless~Written by Brown Angel
