One on one with Jamaica's Dance-hall-Diamond Hawkeye

I caught up with Jamaican born dance-hall artist Hawkeye fresh from his Europe tour and had a very uplifting  and inspirational interview about the dance-hall-diamond behind the unmistakable voice of Hawkeye. Asked to to tell us more about himself , he had this to say  "Hawkeye is a creative artist inspired by positiveness, hope and love for the music, joy of creating music to enhance to help move away from oppression of one another and to be positive  about goodness in whom we are as people".

Hawkeye began his professional musical career in 1993 with the famous hit "Money making guy" spiraling him then to be one of the youngest and most talented artists in the birth of dance-hall  then. His greatest influence in music was a friend of his whom used to visit Jamaica who told him to start singing, and immediately he began his musical journey under the guidance of  Danny Brown and has been Hawkeye ever since.

I went on to ask him when and where he has had his most memorable concert and tour, Jamaica remains the hub of his inspiration , but he had a lot of words from his recent tour of Europe in August where he showcased himself as Hawkeye, the reception and level of appreciation of reggae and dance-hall music is large in European circles. Asked about General Degree he calls him daddy describing how General Degree mentored and gave him guidance.


Currently working on six songs he is releasing his promo tracks from probably an upcoming album not titled yet, tracks namely eh eh  and can squeeze my bum are club hits and a must hear dance-hall tunes. Hawkeye not married yet but is a family man, balances both his worlds, smoothly. He has other talents besides his music  and that's his cooking  many feel he will open a restaurant soon. He has had successful collaborations in the past and recently has had a collaboration with another dance-hall artist in Europe whom Hawkeye believes is going to be a world hit soon. You can also sample his one drop album online.

It was a pleasure having this interview with Hawkeye who signed off with an immaculate freestyle soon to be heard on the Beat-Lock and the Pasa-Pasa dancehall radio show on www.africainyourear.com. to catch more of Hawkeye online you can follow these links and dial these numbers.
http://www.facebook.com/hawkeyemusic, http://www.myspace.com/hawkeyedancehall, http://twitter.com/#!/hawkeyemusik +18763607998 +18768665874