{"id":2120,"date":"2019-02-04T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:48:12","slug":"crystal-axe-heats-up-negril-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Axe heats up Negril scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Coming from a musical family, the name Crystal Axe is among\nthe most popular names in the Lucea and Negril areas. She has established the\nenviable reputation of being among the best female singers, a fact not many can\ndispute. Born in Central Village, St Catherine, she came to live in Montego Bay\nat a tender age and attended the Salt Spring Basic School. She then attended\nthe Barracks Road Primary, where she then graduated to the Harrison Memorial\nHigh. Due to financial strains, however, the aspiring singer had to be\ntransferred to Anchovy High, where she completed her studies, and then\ngraduated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though a long and winding road to get to her passion, Crystal\nAxe benefitted from trying her hand at a few different things, all of which, in\nsome way, contributed to her now burgeoning musical career. It wasn\u2019t quite\nclear how taking business classes at the New Era Bus Institute, as well as\ncompleting an additional business course would land her in singing, but\nsurprisingly, it all did. Crystal Axe went from business to music, and she\nnever looked back. As is customary in the pursuit of one\u2019s passions, Crystal\nAxe encountered a number of challenges, but she effectively trumped them all.\nAfter making it to the Western City, she was soon performing as a cabaret\nartist at many of the top show venues. Back in Negril, she graced spaces such\nas Risky Business, De Bus, Alfred\u2019s, Grand Lido, Bourbon Beach and Roots\nBamboo. These gigs catapulted her to success as not long after, Crystal Axe\nlanded an overseas gig. Crystal Axe was recruited to sing in a band in West\nGermany with a group called \u2018Seeed’. Her stay in Germany reaped more success\nwhen she teamed up with a Montegonian artiste named Black Copper, and that\npartnership yielded the song which turned out to be a hit, ‘Party On’, which\nwas on the EMI Records label. The song went to number two on the German Black\nRecord Charts, and number 8 on the Top 100 charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The popularity from that song gained Crystal Axe more\nrecognition as a female Jamaican artiste and from then, the shows kept pouring\nin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the years, Crystal Axe has done some inspiring work of\nher own. She released several singles, as well as two albums and three music\nvideos, which all reaped a beyond admirable level of success. Some of her more\npopular songs from her catalogue are ‘Love In My Heart\u2019, \u2018Rain Is Falling\u2019,\n\u2018Crying Over You\u2019, \u2018So Much Love\u2019, \u2018In Yah\u2019, \u2018Promises\u2019, \u2018Loving You\u2019 ft.\nBushman, and \u2018Love Me Up\u2019. A testament to her appeal, Crystal Axe has been\nsought by many musicians, and she has subsequently done a number of features as\na result. Her list of artistes she has collaborated with over the years\nincludes Easy Wayne, Ray Dawen, Bushman and Black Copper ,just to name a few.\n\u201cI got the inspiration from my father, Rueben Brooks, who is also a singer.\nMusic is in my blood. My little sister, Princess Tia, is now on tour also as a\nsinger, and my time is near to restart my tours as I have three songs to\nrelease next month. I want to thank the Father up above for showing some\nsuccess in my musical career,\u201d expressed Crystal Axe, whose real name is Gayamaris’\nBrooks. She now sings at the No Name Bar in West End Negril, in the Crystal Axe\nShowcase series each Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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