MACKARUFFIN MCANUFF
MACKARUFFIN MCANUFF SON OF A PREACHER ,GRASS ROOT MUSICIAN, PRODUCER AND SINGER. MACKARUFFIN HAS GROWN FROM STRENGHT TO STRENGHT. HE BEGAN AS A YOUTH IN THE 70'S, PIONEERING THE WAY WITH HIS BROTHER WINSTON MCANUFF'' ELECTRIC DREAD''. NOW A WELL ESTABLISHED SINGER AND MUSICIAN, MACKARUFFIN IS ALSO ONE OF JAPAN'S MOST ACLAIMED JAMAICAN REGGAE ARTIST, AND HAS STOOD AS AN AMBASSADOR FOR BOTH REGGAE AND JAMAICA THROUGH OUT ASIAN REGEION FOR TWENTY YEARS. HE.IS NO STRANGER TO NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN STAGES, AND HAS EVEN GRACED THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WITH HIS UNIQUE STYLE NOT ONLY VOCALLY BUT AS ONE OF THE BEST DRUMMERS. THIS ONLY SHOWS HOW DIVERSE AND MULTITALENTED MACKARUFFIN IS .
.CURRENTLY MACKA IS WORKING ON A SINGLE FROM HIS NEW ALBULM .''.LIVE UP.'THIS NEW SINGLE ENTITLED ''DEM GIRLS LOVE TO DANCE'' WILL FEATURE ARTISTS LIKE GENERAL TREES / JONNY P BE AND WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BY".DAIKI SOUND".., A RECORD AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY IN JAPAN. THE TIME FOR RELEASE IS SET FOR OCTOBER 2009., THIS WILL BE THE SECOND RELEASE FROM A DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT MACKA;S COMPANY ..FIRST RISE RECORDS.... SIGNED WITH DAIKI SOUNDS IN LATE JANUARY 2007 BOTH ALBULMS "LIVE UP" AND .."WHY".. ARE FULL OF MACKA RUFFIN'S ORIGINAL ROOTS TASTE,. AS MANY OF THE TRACKS WERE PLAYED BY MACKA HIMSELF.
OTHER COMPLETED PROJECTS INCLUDES ONE THAT WAS DONE IN JAMAICA. A DOCUMENTARY MOVIE, PART OF JAPANESE AND JAMAICA CULTURAL EXCHANGE. .THE FILM FEATURES JAMAICA'S UNDERWATER SCEANERY, FISHING AND MUSIC. FROM JAPAN YOU HAD T.V. STARS SUCH AS KEIN KOSUGI, IJIMA AI, AKAI HIDEAKI, AND DEGAWA TETSURO , ALONG WITH MACKA. MACKARUFFIN HAS EMBARKED ON. A YOUTH DEVELOPMEMT AND WITH THE HELP OF MUSIC HENCE THE RECORDING STUDIO IN CHRISTIANA MANCHESTER 32 DIGITAL TRACK WHICH IS BEEN UPGRADED TO PRO TOOLS, TO HELP EXPOSE THE CHILDREN WHO ARE TALENTED. MACKARUFFIN HAS SPECIAL PLAN FOR JAMAICA HAS HE PLANS TO TAKE REGGAE MILLENNIUM HERE TO JAMAICA. A SHOW PUT ON BY MACKARUFFIN IN JAPAN AND IS HELD DURING THE MONTHS OF MARCH, JUNE, SEPTEMBER AND DECEMBER. WITH OVER WHELMING SUPPORT FROM JAPANNESE REGGAE LOVERS , REGGAE MILLENNIUM AS BROUGHT DERRICK HARRIOTT, JUNIOR MERVIN, EARL SIXTEEN, ELECTRIC DREAD, SISTER MARIE AND BLACK KAT SOUND SYSTEM TO THE JAPANESE AUDIENCE. . THIS YEAR 2009 SEPTEMBER REGGAE MILLENNIUM JAPAN TOUR WILL BE FEATURING BLACK KAT SOUND SYSTEM, MAJESTIC BAND, MACKARUFFIN ALONG WITH SOME JAPANESE ARTISTS.
MACKARUFFIN'S UP TO DATE HAS DONE RECORDINGS WITH GREAT REGGAE TALENTS SUCH AS CEDRIC MAYTON FROM THE CONGOS, EARL CHINNA SMITH , WINSTON MCANUFF, DANNY DREAD, DIPLOMAT AND CATAPILLA ..
MACKA HAS MOVED ON IN HIS CAREER.AND HAS SINGED A MANAGEMENT CONTRACT WITH ( ''MACKASOUND JAPAN''(AIITAL SIID) A JAPANESE COMPANY.., AND NOW, PRODUCING NEW ARTISTS , BOTH JAPANESE AND JAMAICAN. INCLUDING PROPHET 21 AND MIKI BABY..
BOTHH MIKI BABY AND PROPHET 21 NEW SINGLE S ALSO WILL BE RELEASE IN OCTOBER 2009 FROM FIRST RISE LABLE IN JAPAN
IN JAPAN MACKA IS ALSO DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST, THRILL THE PEOPLE WITH SONGS OF SATISFACTION.
MACKA S PROMOTIONAL TOUR KICKS OFF ON IN OCTOBER TO THE 15 OF NOVEMBER 2009 IN JAPAN.