B.B. Connell

B.B. Connell was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He played in a number of local bands before going to Canada with the "Outfit." After touring Quebec for 2 years, he returned to Barbados, and shortly after was asked to join Rhapsody, a Barbadian band based in Germany. Rhapsody shared the stage with reggae greats like UB40, the Wailers,and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, in addition to backing up Eek-a-Mouse and Lee "Scratch" Perry.

B.B. Connell was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He played in a number of local bands before going to Canada with the "Outfit." After touring Quebec for 2 years, he returned to Barbados, and shortly after was asked to join Rhapsody, a Barbadian band based in Germany. Rhapsody shared the stage with reggae greats like UB40, the Wailers,and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, in addition to backing up Eek-a-Mouse and Lee "Scratch" Perry. After Rhapsody, BB joined Vitamin X, a popular african reggae band, touring throughout Europe.

All this contributed greatly to his musical development, so in 2009 he released his first solo CD, the "Conscious Album." All lyrics, music, computer programming, live playing and vocals were done by BB, the "Afro-Bajan Music Machine," as he calls himself. BB has been greatly influenced by Third World, Aswad, Morgan Heritage, Steel Pulse, Dennis Brown and Jimmy Cliff. His music is Caribbean in nature, heavy on reggae, mixed with african rhythms,R&B, hip hop and Soul. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..