Influenced by such toaster as Josey Wales and yellowman, he began performing in Kingston in 1980 and soon was recording Jamaica hit singles with such leading record producers as King Jammy and Bobby Digital. Grammy Award winning Shabba Ranks has always mastered a brand of explosive intimacy, working the studio in refresing ways, giving the world hit after hit bass after bass and masterfully stripping away bass and reverb when needed to be. He became with his talent, has charisma and his singular voice a monarch of the the music. Jamaica dancehall emperor, Shabba Ranks demonstrated the tremendous possibilities of blending his brand of reggae with the urband contemporary R&B and inovative sound are making permanent and long-lasting in roads into the music industry. Acknowledged phenomenal dancehall emperor Shabba Ranks makes the reggae dancehall music for everybody. To all of Shabbas fans he is presently in the studio putting the finishing touches on soon to be released album. as everyone says it, hes nothing but the emperor of dancehall reggae, the biggest selling and highest profile star of dancehall reggae.