While the bass guitar is his main instrument, he plays enough to compose his entire songs. Having spent half his life in Jamaica, and half in the states, he has grown fond of all music, a true Jamerican. Most of his current repertoire are R&B, and he is currently working on an instrumental cover album with pop-reggae, old school reggae and ryhtm and blues, with tracks from such groups as Abba, Mariah Carey and Aaron Neville. As a musician he also plays anything from country, to pop, to rock to reggae.

Similar Artists

Being a cross-over artist, the above mentioned reggae greats are similar, along with Ace Of Bass, which brings outs his Pop-Reggae beats, dance beats from the likes of LondonBeat, experimental hip-hop/rock like The Black eyed Peas, R& B riddims with the influence of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis etc etc

Influences

Having grown up in the days when reggae had a strong revolutionary message, there was the strong influence of drums and bass, of which Sly and Robbie(Girlz just wanna have fun-Cyndie Lauper, NoDoubt's Gwen Stephanie

Bio

Having been influenced by his uncle who was one of the youngest lead guitarists to grace the Jamaican music scene(and who started out on the road with reggae greats such as JimmyCliff, Tyonne Taylor etc., and was produced by Ska's greatest, Sir Coxson-Dodd) Neil first learned to play the drums, and did so throughout high school. But toward the end he would master the bass, which came in handy when he, his brother Paul, a drum'r and two other cousins, along with his uncle and his best friend Anthony Williams, a british-born son of Jamaican ancestry would form The Family Affair Band. They played for three years until members migrated to the states or to England. Having served in the US Navy, music had to be put on hold, but the calling was definitely there, and after years of on and off attention to his calling, he has now, after having written and arranged about two cd's worth of music, decided to, one way or another, make music his long-term career. As stated," If I have to work another 30 years before retiring, why shouldn't I do it at something I love and am happy with".