Melomaníako

Since his emergence on the local music scene last summer, budding reggae artist Oje Ollivierre, otherwise known as Protoje, has made quite an impression on Caribbean music lovers as well as industry insiders. Ollivierre was one of those persons who was born in the 1980s but wished he was born in the '60s because of his love for vintage reggae music. The artiste who hails from St Elizabeth said he is happy with his music and thinks it is unique. "It's not really a present-day sound but it offers me the opportunity to experiment with music while at the same time bringing a vintage sound to it. That's the type of music I grew up on and that's what I want to do, but it's just that it's not the norm right now," he said. Protoje's music can be classified as dubstyle reggae. "There's a bit of dub in the music, there's a rock guitarist in the band and my writing style represents the subtle hip-hop as...