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Reggae artist Meleik di deva one - My name is Trevor ''Meleik'' Houslin aka. Melano, borned February 23, 1980 to the parents of Sylvia Thompson (housewife) and Oswald Houslin (musician/band owner).
I grew up in the parish of St. Ann Jamaica, my hometown Salem with a
large family of ten, three boys being the eldest and i'm third followed
by five beautiful sisters.
My childhood was ordinary to that of
any Jamaican child, I started basic school before I knew and was reading
before I remembered learning to, then went to primary which was
Hoolebury All Age School at the time and again before the required time
but due to my ability to learn quick I was accepted at the age of four
with childre in the class a year or two older, I performed to the
standards of any other child in the class and was always in the top two
and three.
Maintaining an A average I sat the Common Entrance Examination
to enter into secondary level education and got accepted on a part
scholarship at York Castle High School in Browns Town, St. Ann.
I
remained focus getting high grades and performing well academically
until some unfortunate situations took over control and the sweet,
lushus life as I knew it started falling apart. This affected my whole
schooling which I never recovered from hence me leaving high school with
less than was expected of me.
Being out of school in 1996 was
the worst year of my entire life, I even reached a stage where I was
always short of something shoeless and hungry most of the times but that
didn't kill my spirits to reach for my goals, violence and crime was
never an option.
I got a job in 1997 at a chemical company
managing a outlet in the Runaway Bay area and then to FDR Resorts two
years later, this was where I learnt fully to be a man getting involved
with a woman who took up where my mother left off and grew me. With a
mind for music and a background
where musicians were always in and around the yard from birth to this
present day, I started playing in my father's band on the drum set
learning and mastering the importance of timing in music.
I did
that for a year or so then wanted to know what playing sound in a dance
session would be like and went on to try, this i caught on to very
easily but still it didn't feel enough. I wrote my first song back in
high school when i was in grade seven about cricket because that was my
favourite sport at the time and was writing my second which was a
combination with Leonard ''LJ'' Jones a friend in 2004, this was a soul
song which was performed at a mini beauty contest and the response was
great, even then music never seemed to be my main focus because doing it
was just for fun.
I changed jobs and started working at Couples
Tower Isles in St Mary 2005 to date and this was when I met a young
artist Andre ''Shakespear'' Dyer 2009 that has been recording and was
about to do his first single and I was supportive and pushing him to do
so not knowing he would be my motivation along with the cares of life to
head that direction.
It was not until another year and a half
before i went into the recording box at Cut Stone Records for the first
time and never knew being unprepared for something would have been so
straineous, the engineer told me my songs were good and for a first
timer, ''YUH SONG DEM A SHOT'' , this is a Jamaican term for sounding
good.
I tried a few tracks after but they didn't work out well
and I was left off the projects, couldn't connect nor could I sing out
enough to get the right energy needed for the songs. Later I teamed up
with a friend ''Solomon DaCosta'' I met and worked with in the past at
an hotel, he was making some rythms but at the time I didn't like much
until I heard one that caught ma style, this went on to being my first
single done in February entitled MIH DEVA.
We then decided to
fully to get the label registered and was using my pet name Melano at
the time as an artist but was denied getting it registered. I sat at the
agency that day and only seconds later Meleik came to mind and I didn't
hesitsted I just used it even though I had already recoreded three
songs as Melano, I had to edit and fix some parts to get it out into the
bigger public.
I am currently working on building our label King
Salla Records and the Meleik brand, I have a few singles working on in
the studio present to date and I promise never to let down the
expectations of my listeners singing, sing jaying and dejaying
delivering songs that are 100 % me.
The Mel in Meleik was taken
from melanin linking right back to my African herritage, I am a man
proud of my past, my family and friends, experiences good or bad because
that is what has been building me over the years and there is much left
to be delivered by Meleik and King Salla Records, just keep a listening
ear and expect a surprise.
I am currently promoting two of my
singles MIH DEVA and HOLIDAY RIDE, these are more of a party vibe but
there is no limit because I have a song for everyone.....Meleik...GOOD
LIFE MIH SEH
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