Dancehall star Ijahmar is hoping that his latest song, Shooting Stars, can inspire youths to overcome personal obstacles and pursue their dreams.

“Every youth is a shooting star, once you believe in yourself, anything is possible. The youths need to understand that everything starts with you; you have to find that inner talent. Success, progress and upliftment will be added after. Once you find the love for a vocation, or find your true purpose, that is the only way to become a shooting star,” he said.

The song was released on the One Hundred Degrees Records and Chase Mills Records labels. He plans to release a video for the project in December.

Ijahmar said he has witnessed the natural phenomenon of shooting stars several times over the Kingston cityscape after dark.

“I remember when I was a child, living out by Rockfort, more time, we deh pon the hill outta east and a look across to the airport and we see shooting stars, just sudden, we see something flash inna the sky and it gives you a feeling of awe and wonder. Ah the same vibration with music, it’s mystical, anything can happen at any time, just do the work and believe in what you’re doing,” he said.

Shooting stars are actually what astronomers call meteors, really a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earth’s atmosphere from space. It moves so fast that it heats up and glows as it moves through the atmosphere.

Born Ijahmar Robertson, the entertainer grew up in Rockfort, East Kingston. He was educated at the Norman Garden Primary and Junior High School and later graduated to the Edith Dalton James High School, where he discovered a love for music and started building his talent by the age of 15.

Ijahmar’s songs tackle social issues and matters of the heart, and are mixed with his optimistic philosophy that light exists in all things. He signed to New York-based record label One Hundred Degrees Records in 2018. Other standout songs in his catalogue include Dreams and Thousand Reasons.

He racked up 12,000 views on visuals with his previous release, Polo, earlier this year.

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