COLOMBIAN deejay Nitchman is hoping the success he garnered from the single Carnival Time will help him break into the Jamaican dancehall market.

Carnival Time is a collab with San Andres-based artistes Jordan Bwoy, Stilan and Winta.

“I haven’t got much airplay on radio, but I have [done] lots of interviews and the video [for]

Carnival Time was shown a lot on local TV stations like Teleislas and national like Señal Colombia,” the 19-year-old told Jamaica Observer.

Last year, the single won awards for Best Video and Song of the Year.

Though he has never been to Jamaica, Nitchman (full name Nitchman Robinson) has local roots as his maternal great-grandmother hails from the island. He said as a result, he grew up listening to reggae and dancehall.

Born in San Andres — a Colombian island in the Caribbean Sea — Nitchman explained how he got into the music business.

“From I was a kid and going to church I liked [to] play the piano and sing the choruses. When I was around 14 years old, I decided to learn to make beats and write songs, and from there I started to send beats to a Jamaican artiste named Indinal.”

“It wasn’t easy ’cause a lot of people turn me down when I didn’t have my own studio,” he said. “One day I met a good friend of mine now, named Raul Ward — “DJ Ward”; he let me use his studio with no cost and [from] there I became an artiste and producer,” said Nitchman.

Nitchman’s other songs include Fi The Gal Them, Want Yuh, Pretty Princess and Put An End.