An­ge­lo Mar­celle

Even af­ter 38 years in the busi­ness, DJ Nyabinghi still has what it takes to move peo­ple's feet. The vet­er­an disc jock­ey cel­e­brat­ed his birth­day bash last Sat­ur­day, do­ing what he does best, play­ing mu­sic at a par­ty. The car park be­hind Club Grav­i­ty, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, was the lo­ca­tion. Known for his roots-reg­gae style of mu­sic at par­ties, the proud Rasta­far­i­an at­trib­uted his longevi­ty and pop­u­lar­i­ty over the years to his re­li­gious be­liefs. Al­though Nyabinghi is more of­ten seen on the mi­cro­phone than on the turnta­bles, his abil­i­ty to draw a crowd is still ev­i­dent at his par­ties.

He said, "Rasta­fari is my life and we need uni­fi­ca­tion." He took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to state that, "the Gul­ly and Gaza thing cyah work." Gul­ly and Gaza are two ghet­to ar­eas in Ja­maica, known for their gang vi­o­lence. The?places are al­so a main sub­ject in many reg­gae songs emerg­ing from Ja­maican singers, the main two be­ing Mova­do and Vy­bz Kar­tel.?Mova­do has al­so been in a long stand­ing feud with dance­hall artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel, a ri­val­ry that has spilled over to their re­spec­tive groups, The Al­liance and the Port­more Em­pire, re­spec­tive­ly. In re­cent times, many in­ci­dences of lo­cal school vi­o­lence has been blamed on the mu­sic em­a­nat­ing from Mova­do and Vy­bz Kar­tel.