released October 8, 2013

LOYD BROWN - Over the course of the past three decades, Lloyd Brown has risen to the very pinnacle of his profession, and with a string of hit singles and critically acclaimed albums to his credit, is now hailed as one of UK's best ever reggae singer/songwriters. Born and raised in London to Jamaican parents, he began his career in 1979 by dee-jaying in "blues-dances" before progressing on fully fledged sound-systems in the early eighties with London-based sound-systems Jah Marcus, Exodus and East Man. His earliest singles included Music Medley, Ring Up My Number and The Love In Me, all of them released on Robert Ribs' Unity label circa 1987. Sharing The Night (produced by Junior Frost), then provided him with his first No. 1 hit, and was voted Reggae Single Of The Year in 1990. You Can't Hurry Love, For The Love Of You and Love U Down (his second No. 1 hit, and another Reggae Single Of The Year) soon followed, together with a version of Otis Redding's These Arms Of Mine. Partnership with Tippa Irie won the duo a well deserved contract with Arista, who released their follow-up single, Baby Mother. I Know (inspired by Bob Marley's Kinky Reggae) subsequently became one of 2001's biggest reggae hits, even as Deep was being acclaimed as a masterpiece and his best album thus far. By the time the follow-up, Against The Grain, was released two years later his tally of hit singles had swelled to include You Must Know, co-starring Don Campbell; Bless Me and the unstoppable Main Squeeze, which rocketed into the Reggae Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic. Against The Grain was nominated for Best Album at the 11th Annual Reggae Soca Awards in Florida; an event that saw Lloyd being crowned Best Newcomer for the second time in his career. His next set was Dreams To Remember, produced by Lloyd Campbell and released on VP Records in 2004. This album, recorded in Miami, yielded four hit singles in the shape of Bless Me, Since You've Been Gone, Heartaches and Bongo Nyah, which soon gave Lloyd his second Reggae Top 5 hit in New York. His follow-up album for VP Really Together featuring Fiona was cited by Lloyd as a "true labour of love" as Fiona was an artist he really admired and wanted to work with-which proved its point in the finished product, also with the reggae panel of the Grammys who have shortlisted the album for nomination for Best Reggae Album 2005. 2012 saw another landmark year for Lloyd as he had released his fifteenth 20-track studio album celebrating three decades of making music simply entitled "30" released in February 2012 via Riddimworks Productions and Phoenix Music International. 2013 will see Lloyd once again release another album, his sixteenth entitled New Veteran, featuring collaborations with R n B songstress Kele Le Roc, former Wailers guitarist Junior Marvin and lyricist extraordinaire Tanya Stephens via Riddimworks Productions and Phoenix Music International. - We Are One