Award-winning saxophonist and elder statesman within the music business Dean Fraser is amongst these mourning the loss of life of singer and actor, Ras Ajai, and is looking for “nonsense like this to cease”.
The 43-year-old entertainer was shot and killed in Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday night time, hours after arriving within the island.
“This tragedy reduce deep,” stated an emotional Fraser, who’s on tour in Europe. “This simply doesn’t appear actual, however it occurs day by day and we as a folks have to cease this nonsense. We’re destroying every thing.”
Stories are that Ras Ajai, whose given title was Brian Todd Boucher, was within the island to go to household, particularly his daughter, and Fraser spoke of the shut father-daughter bond.
“He was simply going to verify his daughter, somebody he spoke about in each three phrases,” stated Fraser, who can be very near his personal daughter. “And fewer than three hours after he landed, tragedy struck.”
Fraser, who defined that he and Ras Ajai have been buddies for greater than 12 years, had solely good issues to say about his work ethic, in addition to his skills as each a singer and an actor. Ras Ajai is understood for his position within the Paramount 2024 biographical movie, Bob Marley: One Love during which he performs political enforcer, Claudius ‘Claudie’ Massop.
“This bredren had actual uncooked expertise,” stated Fraser, who’s an in-demand producer in addition to musician and musical director on many worldwide initiatives.
“Ajai has been engaged on his craft for all of the 12 years that I do know him. He was able to tackle the world not solely as a singer, however as an actor … the one two different Jamaican singers that I do know of who succeeded in doing this are Jimmy Cliff and Bob Andy. He was in that league,” Fraser stated.
He described the entertainer as “one of many smartest and most gifted artistes he knew with a imaginative and prescient of turning into a famous person”.
Ras Ajai, who was born in St Catherine, grew up in Waterford. Armed with message songs which he labelled, “ghetto gospel”, he formally launched his music profession in 2012. In 2018, he signed with Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock Productions and has toured with him to numerous locations throughout the globe.
“Ajai was on his approach up,” Fraser stated. “Bwoy, we live in unhappy and severe instances.”
Amongst Ras Ajai’s songs have been “Want You Now,” “Need Me Too,” “Who Feels It,” “Rukumkum” and “Let’s Be Sincere.”
