He is still basking in the success of his Pocket Money on UIM producer Anju Blaxx's Ebola rhythm, which "bucked" its way to the #1 slot on the FIWI Choice Top 10 charts last week. Just the other day, a nurse took a picture with me and said 'a Facebook this ah go right now, yu know?' and mi just have to laugh, the ting a buck dem!" an elated Furtyle Brain said. Everyday, I take several pictures with the fans in the streets, from students to adults, working professionals, hustlers, everybody ah feel the look. "People have accepted the new look right now. In the MegaMart parking lot (laughs).Social media sensation and dancehall artiste Furtyle Brain continues to generate a lot of attention. Where is your favourite island chill spot? What do you miss about Jamaica when you are not here?ĥ. You don’t have to be a victim or slave to anything.Ĥ. I would never even mention it in the past, but I just wanna show that you can grow from everything you go through, even the bad stuff. I’m sure, after this, everyone is going to be asking, ‘What happened’, etc, but I just feel like it’s time to confront it. It happened as a teen, and I never really talked about it much. I never used it as an excuse to give up on myself. What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you? Nobody really gave me the shot until Octane.ģ. Before, I used to beg people to just make mi do one thing and show dem, and dem used to tell me, ‘Sasha, stick to your TV thing, babes’, and I would keep getting the ‘NOs’. Over the years, I have put my all into producing quality content, and so now people know my work. I have two teams, and so I have grown and can definitely see my returns. Right now, BlingBlang Works is based locally and internationally. I started out with TV I do artiste management, I write, I produce, the whole works. It’s not just me doing video directing it’s me covering every aspect of the industry. Well, BlingBlang Works is actually exactly how the name sounds. Tell me about the genesis of your company BlingBlang Works, and how that has grown since 2012. I did Happy Time in 2012, and it was Video of the Year at the Youth View Awards (YVAs), and everything kinda just fell into place from there.Ģ. I remember someone cancelled on him when he was to shoot his Happy Time video, and he called and asked me to do it. Him did just swear from him meet mi say I was way too talented to just be a TV girl. How I really got my was through I-Octane. I knew the direction I wanted to go creativity-wise, and so I just decided to do it by myself. I need to be telling people what to do and how to do it, and so I started in 2012 with a group of guys I worked with at FIWI Choice as The Board, but then I felt like this was a journey I needed to undertake on my own. While on camera, though, I realised that ‘eh-eh’, this is not my style. I knew I never wanted to be on camera per se, but I ended up there. I went to school for production, and so I always knew that I wanted to work with cameras. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.Īs you know, I was the ‘scoop girl’, Sasha Bling, but I always wanted to move from that.
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