Rooted & Grounded

Dave Osbourne A k a Junior Osbourne (devils trampler) Biography My name is Dave Osbourne, born on February 1st 1973, at rest district, Milk River, Clarendon. I started singing at a tender age of five (5) and making music on the bottom of my mother's cheese pans. I had another passion, which was reciting poems that my mother taught me for church functions. When I was a year older, I had the opportunity then to sing for open functions like at church of God ground of Truth and Rest all age school. My mom took ill shortly after and my dad was not around, my next door neighbour by the name of Starky became my guardian. This man did everything for me as a boy, and I would always remember when he told me,quot; Boy you have great talent in singing and performing.quot; He was very anxious to help me improve on these skills, so he began to teach me. The very first song he taught me was 'me love in a me heart just boil up for she'. When I had mastered this song, he took me out one evening to sing with his sound system owned by Black Beard. He placed me on top of a bucket, which I was to perform from and said to me sing. That night I sang my belly out, and the crowd loved it and could not stop shouting, quot;sing little d, singquot;. I continued to sing for those little geet together and got better and better. Years passed by, I then decided to change my stage name to junior osbourne, this was probably about the age of ten (10) years, I sang with artist like Nickodemus, super cat, cocoa tea and bonnie general. The selector at the time was Gold Finger Danny Dread. Life started to get rough and so I moved to Kingston to live with my uncle. There I met Berry G and Bammi Man at JBC Radio Station. Barry G took me to sing with his sound system,quot; wha Datquot;. Later that same month I moved to 1 Robert Crescent, Kingston 5 to live with Sugar Mynot who owned a sound system,quot; Youth Man Promotionquot;. There I sang with artist like Color Man and Yammi Bolo. Music was not booming for me, so I had to look towards finding others ways to make a living and decided to enter to the Tastee Talent Contest and also look for other line of work. Luckily I won the contest that year, and boy that was a sweet win, I felt so good, things started to look bright. From that win I was all set to win some more and soon after someone told me about the J.C.D.C pop and variety festival and I signed up for it . The year was 1990, I was 17 years old at that time, and thought to myself if I won that one I would be happier than ever, and you know what, I did indeed walked away with the Gold award with the songquot; Boss have right......Worker have right tooquot;. This was great; however I tried getting a record, which became frustrating. I got so much run around going from one recording studio to another, until I met a man by the name Black Beard, who assisted me in producing a record, I sang on All Star Nanny Goat Album. This album consisted of songs from the artist such as Shaka Demus & Pliers, Skullman and Fragga Ranks/ Red Rose. The song I did was ranked at number 1 and 2 throughout the Caribbean.. from there I began doing shows around the Caribbean. My former manager was Louise Bennett who now deceased. She managed many popular reggae artists such as Culture, Ninja Man, Ghost, Barkey and Wicka Man. My latest release featured Beenie Man and Kurt Davis. At present am living between St Kitts and Jamaica, working on an album that would consist of the newly released single quot;Good Morning Beautifulquot; whish was originally