Busy Signal

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Biography

Reanno Devon Gordon, also known as Busy Signal, was born in Saint Ann Parish,[1] living in areas in West and East Kingston such as Tivoli Gardens, Kingston, Papine, and Spanish Town. He is a past student of Brown's Town Comprehensive High School. Known as one of the artists leading the contemporary dancehall movement, Busy Signal has been a large part of the scene since 2003, and released his debut single "Step Out" in 2005. [2] A music video for "Step Out" was released shortly afterwards.

He was nicknamed Busy Signal by his friends because he is constantly busy. His hit tracks for 2007/2008 were "Nah Go A Jail Again", "Smoke Some High Grade", "Tic Toc" and the track entitled "Unknown Number" has made tremendous airplay and dancehall reviews especially in the Caribbean and the US.[3] He has released a hit dancehall album entitled Step Out.

On 22 September 2008, Busy Signal released his second studio album titled Loaded, a 15-track compilation on VP Records of well known dancehall hits such as "Jail", "Whine Pon Di Edge", "These Are the Days", among others, as well as never-heard-before exclusive tracks such as "People So Evil" and "Hustle Hard".

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Busy Signal (Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2013)

The artist announced the introduction of a self-styled clothing line in 2011.[4]

On 21 May 2012, Gordon was arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica due to an extradition warrant from the United States.[5] He was extradited to the US on 19 June where he faced cocaine-related charges.[6] In September 2012 he received a six-month prison sentence.[7] He was released in November, and promptly released the single "Come Shock Out".[8][9] BBC Music ranked Reggae Music Again No. 7 on their Top 25 Albums of 2012 listing.[10] Busy Signal appears on the No Doubt album, Push and Shove, collaborating with the band and the production team Major Lazer on the title track.[11] He also appears on Major Lazer's second album Free the Universe, in the track "Watch Out For This (Bumaye)", which was a hit single in several European countries.[12] In 2014, he made "Sports Day: Everyone Move", however, he pirated music off of Hatsune Miku's cover of the Internet sensation Ievan Polkka. His Parts of the Puzzle album was released on 4 October 2019 on VP Records. It entered the Billboard Reggae Albums chart at number 2.[13]

Discography

Albums

Singles

As a lead artist

  • 2005: "Step Out"
  • 2008: "Tic Toc"
  • 2010: "One More Night/Night Shift"
  • 2011 : "Kingston Town" (feat. Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley)
  • 2012: "Come Shock Out"
  • 2013: "Why I Sing"
  • 2013: "Danger Zone"
  • 2014: "Professionally"
  • 2014: "Sports Day: Everybody Move"
  • 2014: "Money Flow" (feat. Eek-A-Mouse)

As a featured artist

Year Title Peak chart positions Album
AUT
[19] 		BEL (Vl)
[20] 		BEL (Wa)
[21] 		DEN
[22] 		FRA
[23] 		NL
[24] 		SWE
[25] 		SWI
[26] 		NG
[27] 		SPA[28]
2012 "Push and Shove"
(No Doubt featuring Busy Signal and Major Lazer) 		— — — — — — — — — — No Doubt album
Push and Shove
2013 "Watch Out for This (Bumaye)"
(Major Lazer featuring Busy Signal, The Flexican and FS Green) 		40 5 8 14 4 7 45 23 — 46 Major Lazer album
Free the Universe
2015 "Riding Solo"(Joyner Lucas feat. Busy Signal) — — — — — — — — — — Joyner Lucas albumAlong Came Joyner
2016 "Key to the city"
(Tiwa Savage featuring Busy Signal) 		— — — — — — — — 1 — Tiwa Savage album
R.E.D
2018 "Loko"[29]
(Tropkillaz and Major Lazer featuring MC Kevinho and Busy Signal)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		— — — — — — — — — —
2019 "Santa Maria"
(Bad Gyal featuring Busy Signal)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		— — — — — — — — — 14

References

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  1. ↑ Johnson, Carolyn (2006) "A Very Busy Childhood Script error: No such module "webarchive".", Jamaica Star, 21 January 2006, retrieved 1 July 2012
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  4. ↑ ‘Busy’ takes his talents to the T-shirt rack Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Nation News (Barbados). 25 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Busy signal arrested on extradition warrant. Jamaica Gleaner. 21 May 2012.
  6. ↑ Campbell, Howard (2012) "Sales get Busy", Jamaica Observer, 27 June 2012, retrieved 1 July 2012
  7. ↑ Henry, Paul (2012) "Busy gets six-month sentence", Jamaica Observer, 21 September 2012, retrieved 22 September 2012
  8. ↑ Morgan, Simone (2012) "‘Nah go a jail again’", Jamaica Observer, 25 November 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012
  9. ↑ Jackson, Kevin (2012) "Busy Signal 'shocks' out", Jamaica Observer, 23 November 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012
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  11. ↑ Busy Signal will appear on No Doubt song "Push and Shove" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Official No Doubt Website. 8 May 2012.
  12. ↑ Jackson, Kevin (2013) "Watch out for Busy Signal Script error: No such module "webarchive".", Jamaica Observer, 21 July 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013
  13. ↑ a b c d Jackson, Kevin (2019) "Getting Busy on Billboard", Jamaica Observer, 15 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019
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