How To Get from Mavado to Chelsea’s Michael Essien in three moves!

1. Wish Stephen 'Digenius' Mcgregor a Happy Birthday. The award-winning producer turns 19 this week! Yup he who created world-beating riddims like the Power Cut, Red Bull & Guinness and most recently the Day Rave is only 19 years old! His co-production (with Delly Ranx) of Mavado’s break-through hit, ‘Weh Dem A Do’ went so far as to dent the Billboard Charts in 2006 and is still tearing up dances and parties to this day!

2. Music was always gonna be a part of Stephen’s life as his father is none other than Mr Freddie Mcgregor. His older siblings Yeshemabeth and Daniel ‘Chino’ Mcgregor both have solo careers in their own right as artists. Although Stephen can drop a rhyme if and when he feels like, his greater talents lie behind the mixing desk! So it’s no wonder that Stephen is now at the helm of his father’s Big Ship label, Studio and Record label.

3. The name of Mr Mcgregor’s company came from a 1982 hit that was his take on the fulfilment of the Marcus Garvey repatriation prophecy. That prophecy came to fruition – sort of in 1957 when the Garvey inspired Kwame Nkrumah named the newly independent Ghana’s shipping fleet the Black Star Line. That name was also given to Ghana’s national football team. The biggest star in that team is one Michael Essien.

And that’s how to get from Mavado to Chelsea’s Michael Essien in three moves!

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