Don Christopher makes his return
IN the 1990s, Jamaican singer Don Christopher captured local attention with his song Fire Fire, a take off Calypso Rose’s trademark Fire In Me Wire.
He repeated that early success in 2005 with a single called Do Right which enjoyed pole position in Florida where he now lives.
Today, Christopher is seeking to rekindle the heat with which he made his foray into music and has released a new set, Falling, to achieve that goal.
“So far, Falling is doing pretty good,” Christopher told the Observer in a recent interview. “It is number three now on the WVS Chart in South Florida. So it’s a good place for it to be, and I feel like I am going to be hitting home again with a number one song.”
According to Christopher, the video for Falling “is doing pretty good overseas”. His aim now, he said, is to create an impact in Jamaica.
To do that, the singer, who is from Spanish Town, St Catherine and who was named Christopher Don Brown by his parents, was recently in the island recording new material.
“I just did a culture reggae in the studio here called Pray For Me Mama. Trust mi, when you hear this song, sell off, man,” he boasted. “I come back to show them sey, I’m back. Mi just a come. And I think the sky’s the limit,” added Christopher whose first recording, titled Conclusion, was done at Channel One.
Giving a brief history of his involvement in the music industry, Christopher said he sang back-up for Stanley Beckford from the Turbines, starting in 1993.
After that stint, Christopher went solo. “That’s when I did the recording at Tuff Gong for Mack Worth International label, a song called Fire Fire. That was my first hit song,” he reminisced.
“I did a whole bunch of recordings after that, but Fire Fire, which made the impact, was the first song that gave me recognition. At the time you had Buju Banton’s Murderer, Lt Stitchie’s Bun It Down and Fire Fire was the only song that could take those songs off the charts,” Christopher said.
“Fire Fire is really the song that let me started travelling until I migrate to the United States,” he said. “The dancehall was on fire, so we mix the soca with the reggae and it did catch a fire for me.”
The cover of Don Christopher’s new album Falling.
