DANCEHALL-FUSION artiste Kreesha Turner dropped by the Jamaica Observer offices yesterday for our Monday Exchange and brought with her entertainer/music, television and movie producer Nick Cannon.

Kreesha, who has a new record and management deal with Cannon’s Ncredible Entertainment, is on the island to promote her new single with TOK ‘Sexy Gal’. And Cannon, by his own words “just tagged along”.

“I’ve never been to Jamaica,” Cannon told teenAGE Observer, “and Kreesha has always been telling me about where she’s from. I wanted to see the authentic culture.”

In the music industry from over a decade, Kreesha passed on two pieces of advice from her mother. “Perfect your craft.

Just as the doctor has to go to school for a decade, be the best at what you want to do. Music lessons, vocal lessons — so you will always be your best.

“And second, increase you odds. This industry is about being at the right place at the right time. Singing in the shower alone won’t do, be on every stage, every talent show, every mixer; be where you can run and shake the right hand. If you are in every place, then you are more likely to be in the right place at the right time.

Be so ’nuff’ they can’t turn you down.” Which is pretty much how Turner met Cannon.

Turner, was in a club that Cannon was showcasing his disc jockey skills, and he gave her a shout out. They met, exchanged contact details and it all, as they say, started from there.

Fast-forward a couple months, Cannon calls Kreesha to feature on a track and she introduced him to the full range of her talent — singing and deejaying.

“And he loved it!” Turner, a Canadian-Jamaican, has had quite a bit of success. In fact, she is a platinum-selling artiste in Canada with her single ‘Don’t Call Me Baby’ off her debut album Passion.

Look for @kreeshaturner on Twitter and Instagram.

Ncredible in Jamaica

Turner worked with one of the top writing duos in the the business, Rock City, brothers from the island of St Thomas, who have written for Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Akon, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson, and R Kelly.

The track Dem Nuh Like Me, is out now and look out for her new mixed tape, which will feature Mya, Juici J, BOB, and Gucci Mane, which will be dropped through the Cannon’s Ncredible label with Universal Republic.

His three-day trip to the island includes club-hopping, some studio sessions today and absorbing the culture. The multitalented Cannon — who conceptualised MTV’s Wild N Out and Nickelodeon HALO Awards; produces and direct movies; hosts America’s Got Talent , a singing talent show; and is also a rapper — says he’s excited about working with Turner as she has massive crossover appeal.

“She is doing something that they (the audience) haven’t heard in a long time. So she is a potential superstar,” Cannon told teenAGE. And his advice to young people, who want to break into the entertainment industry.

“Don’t stop. Whatever it is that you want to do. Be positive, don’t let anyone tell you no. If it’s what you really want, keep pushing for it, it will happen for you.”

 — MED