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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Junior Gong: Resist from spoiling T&T

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Damien "Ju­nior Gong" Mar­ley, the Gongzil­la of Reg­gae Mu­sic, on Sat­ur­day night, sent a strong mes­sage to T&T min­utes af­ter grac­ing the stage at Hen­nessy Artistry's Reg­gae on the Bay 2015 held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um's Train­ing Grounds in Port-of-Spain.

The Gram­my-win­ning Ja­maican artiste rem­i­nisced of his younger years com­ing to T&T and plead­ed to the thou­sands gath­ered to re­sist from spoil­ing the good of the coun­try."Please, please, you all have some­thing good go­ing on here and don't spoil it," Mar­ley said.

Mar­ley was then joined on stage by lo­cal so­ca star artiste, Ian "Bun­ji Gar­lin" Al­varez where they merged their col­lab­o­ra­tion of so­ca, dance­hall and reg­gae The Mes­sage.The song ad­dressed so­ci­ety's ills where Mar­ley pushed for change and em­pha­sised that chil­dren are full of beau­ty, which is worth way much more than oil.

Mar­ley's son, Eli­jah, aged six, al­so joined his fa­ther on stage and just like his fa­ther was able to do years ago.Lit­tle Eli­jah was able to to­tal­ly win the hearts of the thou­sands of fans with his cute ren­di­tion of One Love.Mar­ley, in no less than ex­pect­ed, per­formed pow­er­ful­ly hit af­ter hit in­clud­ing: Con­fronta­tion, More Jus­tice, Me Name Ju­nior Gong, Move, Could You be Loved.

At the end of his per­for­mance, at about 3.30 am yes­ter­day, the thou­sands chant­ed for an en­core "Ju­nior Gong!", "Ju­nior Gong!" How­ev­er, un­for­tu­nate­ly, they were left want­i­ng more as he did not re­turn to the stage.


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