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Introducing: Jay Anderson US based GT Boy

Jay Anderson

"Hi Jay Anderson I love your voice and your music... can I have your number?", "OMG J Anderson you are soooooo cute baby and you are talented and smart too", "make Guyana Proud," "I wish you every success as your number one fan."
These are amongst some of the comments after just seven minutes of listening to the conversation and snippets of Jay Anderson on Caribbean Music Box aired on BTV Channel 2.

The name Jay Anderson is by no means popular in Guyana just yet, but if all goes well this New York based college student may soon be a household name internationally. He hails from Queenstown, Essequibo but at age 13 his family migrated to the USA to seek out a better life. By chance he wrote a poem that eventually turned into a Hip Hop and RnB song and now many moons later, he’s got a repertoire of more than 100 songs recorded. But of that lot he has released only two for which he has videos namely ‘Popular’ and ‘Mirror Mirror’.

That’s just the beginning as this law major at the Mercy College NY, unlike some others who have come and gone with big dreams is focused on educating and qualifying himself with good moral Guyanese grounding from, mom- Lurine Jones, an Essequibian who is a Nurse in the USA. " My mom is serious about education... she says when you done singing you still need an education to handle your business and its one sure thing you can fall back on when the music don’t work," the 20 year old says.
Jay Anderson (Jumaine Anderson Walcott) has had many offers since taking music seriously to sign contracts of varying sorts but non suiting the fancy of his mum that would allow for him to focus on qualifying himself. "Though tempting I cannot abandon school, mom wouldn’t let that happen". Now in his third year at college he says he’s gotten another offer from the Kobalt Company and is seriously contemplating signing on.

However, as the contract awaits his signature he’s decided that an artiste needs good grounding amongst his people, as such, he opted to take a trip back to Guyana to reconnect and has been the subject of many interviews and he’s hoping that his music will gain popularity at home first as he will represent as a Guyanese, though his accent is thick American.
"When I’m done doing that I will sign that contract or any other... and then it’s gonna be... Grammy here I come with the Golden Arrow head in my hand."

Since arriving in Guyana he hooked up with Entertainer Kerwin Bollers and after sampling some tracks Jay Anderson has hit the studio with Timeka Marshall for a song that will eventually be released. Though he was never heard about before after a few minutes on radio and the Caribbean Music Box show aired on Btv Ch2 the congratulatory messages started flowing with ladies simply ‘loving the vibes’ and wishing him ‘the best’ in his music dreams. Strange enough while he digs a mean hip hop sound he has a love for Bob Marley, Berres Hammond and Jah Cure music in his ipod.

Persons seeking to hear and sample his sounds can log on to Youtube and search for Jay Anderson or on Facebook. On twitter he’s listed as ‘I am Jay Anderson.’

By Mondale Smith

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