"Some people are like, `So what, don't think you're going to stop doing them singovers, because you know that's what made you and you do them better than anybody else.'"Īs such, Sanchez has added recent hits by Ne-Yo, Keyshia Cole and Chris Brown to his repertoire. The singer acknowledges that diehard fans, such as those who bought tickets for his Mississauga show this Saturday at the One Love Reggae Music Festival, still want to hear the cover tunes. People are just like, `You should have been doing this a long time ago.'" "Writing a song nowadays is like getting up and getting a cup of tea. "I do it anywhere, because it's so easy, because so many things are happening around me through everyday living," said Sanchez. It turns out that writing lyrics is no big deal. "They're the people in Jamaica that always come up with original stuff and actually opened my eyes and got me to start thinking different." "I grew in the music," he said via cellphone, citing singer/songwriters Beres Hammond, Freddie MacGregor and Glen Washington for showing him the way. That's why, when the Star caught up with him on his native island, he was in the studio, working on a new album of original material. "You just pick up somebody's song and put a reggae beat around it and hopefully you get a hit," he said.īut eventually, Kingston-born Kevin Jackson, who now resides in Florida, realized the great limitation of that pursuit – the lion's share of royalties going to the song's owner. Of the former, the 44-year-old entertainer is matter-of-fact: "It was easier," he said of coming to the fore in 1986 with Simply Red's "Lady in Red" and carving out a niche interpreting songs made popular by the likes of Tracy Chapman, Babyface and Marvin Gaye. Jamaican singer Sanchez is known for two things: doing reggae versions of pop songs and always being the best-dressed person on the bandstand.
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