(Despite it sounding similar to Alison Hinds' Roll it gyal) It spent 29 weeks on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart and 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The official remix for the song features rapper Nicki Minaj. The song also peaked at number 1 on the Dancehall/Reggae fusion Charts of the Jamaica Weekly Music Charts for two consecutive weeks. In June, the song re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually reached a new peak of 77 on that chart, number 3 on the Heatseekers Songs chart, 31 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, 63 on the Radio Songs chart and an astonishing peak of 28 on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40, capitalizing it crossover success. The song was the first to be confirmed to appear on his second album I Can Feel Your Pain, which was released in 2008.Īs of the end of May 2010, his single 'Hold Yuh' had peaked at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 33 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, number 6 on the Billboard Heatseekers Songs Chart and had been at the top of the Reggae Digital Songs chart for nine consecutive weeks. On 12 December 2007, Gyptian, while in New York City, shot the music video, directed by Rhona Fox, for his new single, 'I Can Feel Your Pain' (Cloud Nine Riddim) Produced by JonFX. On 12 September 2004, Gyptian released his first album My Name Is Gyptian on VP Records. Nominated for Best New Entertainer at the 2006 International Reggae and World Music Awards, the singer has been dominating the Jamaician charts with hits including 'Is There a Place', 'Beautiful Lady', and the chart-topping ballad, 'Mama, Don't Cry'. In 2005, he scored two hits, 'Is There A Place' on the Seasons Riddim and 'Serious Times'. The singer earned his nickname from his habit of tying a shirt around his head and twisting his chin hair like an Egyptian pharaoh. Wong and Earl Chinna Smith, Gyptian honed his sound, winning the 2004 Star Search talent competition at Kens Wild Flower Lounge in Portmore, earning him a spot at Sting 2004, dubbed the 'greatest one night reggae show on earth'. One day, they dropped me off at his studio and left me and it all began there.' Career Career beginnings 'I did not take it seriously,' said Edwards 'My family members have always been carrying me to Portmore to see him, but I usually disappear. Wong, a record producer from Portmore, St. Recognizing his talent, his parents introduced him to Mr. Andrew, Jamaica called King Weston District. He grew up in a small community in Rural St. Born to a Seventh-day Adventist mother Pauline McCaulsky and Rastafarian father, Edwards received his musical calling at the age of seven, when he began singing in the church.

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