Blufox

When you start your career working with the best in the business, then find yourself performing alongside Reggae veterans in front of 30,000 people all within the same year, you have to believe your career is destined. This is the unimaginable fairy tale of Blufox, a soulful songstress who laces her alternative lyrics over the rhythmic and rebellious strains of Reggae music.

Blufox says her love of Reggae “started from the womb.” Though born in Queens, NY, her Jamaican mother steeped her in the roots and culture, sending her home to ‘country’ often. As a child her musical talents were first noticed when she kept getting solos in the church choir. Her mother then supported her daughter’s dreams with music and vocal lessons. Years later after college, the Air Force and a brief time as a radio personality in Washington, DC , Blufox found her way back to her music. She was plugging away in local New York venues when fate walked in the door dressed as a family member who introduced her to Sly & Robbie. The rest is music history. It is not often that a newcomer to the industry gets to sit court with Reggae royalty, but Blufox soon found herself in the studio with long time producer /musicians Sly & Robbie and Morgan Heritage.

After performing at the Bob Marley Music Festival Tour in February 2004, earning a spot at Sumfest in the summer, returning for B’s Explosion Concert on stage with Beenie Man, Bunny Wailer and Buju Banton, then wrapping up the year touring with Sly & Robbie on their 25th Anniversary tour, Blufox is releasing her first single, “Deep Breath” in February and her album this spring.

Does Blufox feel pressure working in the studio with Reggae legacies? “I feel blessed. I don’t feel pressure at all. When it comes to Morgan Heritage, they expect the best and Sly & Robbie developed me to be the best so I can’t complain at all … it’s perfect.”

--Odette Flemming