Sure Dread

Ever since Sure Dread joined roots reggae band Jah Roots at the age of 14, he has been developing his talents on reggae-keyboards. With no other mentor but Jah, his talents and the albums he has heard, Sure Dread now has his own style of roots reggae. In Jah Roots, many times he needed to fill the music without the help of a guitarist or another keyboard player. "You can definitly count Jah Roots among my major inpirators," he says. Sure Dread makes his own music with the PC as central point in his set-up, although you can not hear that so good. Where most artists that create reggae music with computers dwell in the realm of dancehall, Sure Dread chooses a totally different way. You can hear Culture, Steel Pulse and Jah Roots in his original music. He works together with Messian Dread Jah Roots and in the Dubroom, their award-winning reggae site where they both publish their original music in midi-format. Where Messian puts a clear emphasis on dub, Sure Dread has a more musical approach of his music and his skillfull roots reggae sounds would serve very nicely as backing tracks for those Jamaican artists such as Culture and the Mighty Diamonds.