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Monday, August 18, 2025

M1 does it again

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Sher­win Je­re­mi­ah, 34, is on a mu­si­cal jour­ney. He left the so­ca trio 3Suns, where he was lead vo­cal­ist, and for the last two years has been hav­ing de­cent suc­cess as a so­lo so­ca artist.

Je­re­mi­ah, known to his fans as M1 or Men­ace, has been hav­ing a fruit­ful 2016 and has the chance to par­tic­i­pate in the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch fi­nals.

This year, Je­re­mi­ah does not need a shot to cool his so­ca fever–which he's spread­ing with his in­fec­tious 2K16 of­fer­ing–Ac­tion. The song ap­pears on Or­ches­tra Rid­dim, pro­duced by Chain Links Pro­duc­tion from the Big Blood Stu­dios in San­gre Grande. The Rid­dim al­so hosts a num­ber of oth­er artistes such as Olatun­ji Year­wood, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous and De­stra Gar­cia.

"The sea­son nice," says a husky voiced Je­re­mi­ah dur­ing a Skype in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian.

With five re­leas­es, the fa­ther of one boasts he is re­ceiv­ing gigs every oth­er day to per­form at pre-Car­ni­val events. He is gear­ing up, though, to bring his A game at this week­end's So­ca Monarch semi­fi­nals where he plans to, in his own words, "Mash up d place" and make it to the fi­nals for sure this time around.

Je­re­mi­ah said the song Ac­tion, which he wrote and will per­form at the semi­fi­nals, was ac­tu­al­ly quite a last minute de­ci­sion.

"Mill­beatz (pro­duc­er David Mil­lien) came to me last minute with the beat...like two days be­fore launch­ing the rid­dim, and all I had was a hook and muse two lines. But he was adamant I come to the stu­dio and do some­thing. So we spent from night un­til morn­ing un­til the song was com­plete and I re­mem­ber im­me­di­ate­ly hav­ing a good feel­ing about it," Je­re­mi­ah re­calls.

He says, like his oth­er songs, Ac­tion is a peo­ple song–some­thing the young, old and those in be­tween can en­joy and re­late to.

"I al­ways try to write songs that every­body can un­der­stand. I be­lieve that mu­sic is a uni­ver­sal thing that every­body should be able to un­der­stand and en­joy."

He says as he con­tin­ues to grow as a so­lo artiste, his mu­sic will be in­flu­enced by all gen­res.

"I like to keep it fresh and orig­i­nal. I do not place bor­ders or lim­i­ta­tions on my mu­sic in any way. You must be able to en­joy my mu­sic any­where you are in the world. That is my goal," says Je­re­mi­ah.

Once again this year you will al­so find the song­writer as a guest artiste at Machel Mon­day 2016. This would be the third year he is guest star­ring. "It is a par­tic­u­lar kind of re­spect hav­ing some­one like HD re­spect and en­joy your mu­sic, be­cause he has the eye for spot­ting a hit and the ear for good mu­sic."

Je­re­mi­ah has got his eye on so­ca and ca­lyp­so folk–like Lyrikal and the Mighty Shad­ow–as fu­ture prospects for a col­lab­o­ra­tion.

"I ad­mire Lyrikal's con­sis­ten­cy with good mu­sic since he came on the scene. He is re­al­ly a se­ri­ous guy about his mu­sic. And, well, I al­ways want­ed to work with Shad­ow–he is like one of my all time favourites from yes­ter­year. To work with him would be off the chain," Je­re­mi­ah re­veals. Asked what were his thoughts on this year's Car­ni­val mu­sic, Je­re­mi­ah said some are sweet and some are sour, but then again that's the case every year.

"It mat­ters not that it is a short sea­son. What mat­ters is artistes putting 200 per cent be­hind their mu­sic and their craft," he com­ment­ed. He said he be­gan re­leas­ing songs since last Sep­tem­ber as he knew the sea­son was a short one and artistes would need to get their songs out there, play­ing on the ra­dio and in par­ties to build a mo­men­tum.

"Un­less you are Machel Mon­tano or Bun­ji or one of those more es­tab­lished artistes, you don't wait to re­lease your song late, late and ex­pect a for­ward. You would get left be­hind. So artistes have to do their home­work too. If you know do­ing so­ca mu­sic is not just a side hus­tle for you, then you have got to step up your game," Je­re­mi­ah ad­vis­es.

The Big Peo­ple Ting hit mak­er is al­so count­ing his bless­ings, or his dol­lars, as he is booked for sev­er­al events af­ter Car­ni­val out­side of Trinidad. "Things are re­al­ly mov­ing for me and I am mov­ing with it. This year is no talk, just ac­tion."

More in­fo:

For book­ings vis­it Sher­win "M1" Je­re­mi­ah on Face­book by typ­ing in his name, Sher­win Je­re­mi­ah. Find him on Twit­ter @Sher­win Je­re­mi­ah.


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