Staff WriterMarcia Griffiths, Chuck Fender, Bushman, Sanchez, Voicemail, Conrad Crystal & Sugar Roy, Stone Love disco along with Live Wyya Band will leave Jamaica for Japan August 6 to perform on the big ‘REGGAE EXPLOSION’ two day concert which are produced and promoted by Guiding Star Muzik out of Nagoya and will be held over two days August 9th and 10th.
The Japan tour is been organised by veteran tour manager Copeland Forbes of Comar Productions who said the two day event is the most talked about reggae event in the land of the rising sun and is expected to attract over 100,000 reggae fans who’ll be trekking from all over Japan.
After the Japan shows, Forbes along with the Live Wyya Band will head off to Bangok, Thailand for a series of appearances in Samui Islands.
Live Wyya, who were the winners of the battle of the band competition held in Jamaica two years ago, represented Jamaica in London at the World Battle Of The Band Contest and was voted the most popular band in the competition which had twenty five bands from twenty five countries including Russia.
The two-time winners of the best backing band category (2007-2008) in the International Reggae and World Music Awards held at the world famous Apollo Theatre in May will be making their first visit to Thailand and band manager Copeland Forbes said that the band will be promoting their new single ‘MASTERPIECE’ accompanied by the video which was recently released in that region.
The group will also make excursion trips to Cambodia, Saigon (in Vietnam) and other surrounding areas which were once the battlefield during the vietnam war.
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