01. I & I
- ✓ Name: Lioness Font
- ✓ Single Name: I & I
- ✓ Cd Name: From A Baobab Tree
- ✓ For Promotional Use Only !!!
- ✓ Genre: Roots/Reggae
- ✓ Released: 22 Oct. 2015
- ✓ Born: Dominica
- ✓ Resident: London
- ✓ Label: Roar Music/VPal Music
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- ✓ Track: 01
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- ✓ Playtime: 04:07 min.
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Lioness Fonts was born on the island of Dominica to Dominican
parents, James and Vivienne Fontaine. From seven siblings she is the
sixth in line. Her singing career started early in the Caribbean at the
tender age of four where she would sing songs at her Sunday school
classes, even then she was recognised taking lead with her voice
naturally raised amongst others.
Lioness Fonts embraced the carnivals
which came round yearly taking part in dancing through the streets under
the watchful eye of her family. The young lioness has been known to
stray away through excitement which has created man hunts in search for
her, so for safety she was only allowed on trucks owned by her father or
friends.
Lioness Fonts came to England at the age of six with her younger
brother to meet the rest of her brothers and sisters who were all born
in England.
It was a cold December night when the aeroplane landed, the doors
opened and everywhere was white, white with snow, seen for the first
time in confusion the young Lioness cried because she wanted the heat,
rather than the cold substance she was walking on and observing.
Lioness was taken to the family home then in Luton to re-unite with
her family after years apart, it was exciting and emotional as she
remembers.
In Luton she went to infant and junior school meeting other children
who shared the same passion for singing and dancing with her. They would
make up dance routings in the playground setting up shows for the
lunchtime and break periods. Through her junior to senior school stage,
being sixth in line with elders above her, at home the young Lioness rarely had her chance to play the stereo and when she did get her chance
it was her Michael Jackson albums, studying his song writing and
arrangements in the inlay and also studying his vocal techniques.
So in
the background were many different types of music from all family
members. Her mother would play Calypso, her father played Charlie Pride
and Jim Reeves (anything country an western) sisters would play Lovers
Rock and MowTown, one brother played a lot of Soul R&B and Funk, her
younger brother was a Musical Youth fan (pass de dutchie), but her
greatest influence came from her big Brother Samson who played a lot of
Geensleeves, Fashion, Trojan and all de big groundation labels.
At night
she would listen, a passageway and two doors away from her brothers
room was the upful noise of the sound tapes, from BlackCat, Jaro,
Stonelove, Saxon, Coxsone, the list goes on.
Loving and gravitating
towards the vibration, one particular record held the lioness captive to
the dancehall scene and it was ‘Aces Intenational’. Lioness tuned into
the likes of Yellowman, Toyan, Fathead, Charlie Chaplin, Eeak A Mouse, Little John an Billy Boyo jus to mention a few. Listening to the record
day to day the young Lioness was learning and mimicking the chants of
these danchall masters until she noticed one thing, there were no
females on the fyah-mic.
Determined to find a sister who represented the
dance she filed through her brothers tapes until she heard a voice
singing ‘feel like jumping, ooh ooh, feel like shouting out’, the queen
Marcia Griffiths opened up the doorway for the now Rooaaring Lioness.
Song writing was started from that point. The roaring Lioness is also
highly influenced today by the sounds of the mighty late great ‘Burning Spear, Culture, Garnet Silk and from the unmistakable fyah artists such
as ‘Sizzla Kalonji and Buju Banton’
