Double the talent equals double the success for Richard Nattoo, one of 40 selected awardees for the CATAPULT Consultancy Voucher Programme and a recipient of the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence in the category of Arts and Culture, an honour he is still finding the words to describe.
“I want to use the arts and culture platform to show that it’s never too much to take on a project you are passionate about. Our island has a vast community of creatives, a lot of whom have dreams to do make an impact with their art, but sometimes adulthood and everything else makes us feel like we can’t,” said the artist (and artiste), who, with the CATAPULT grant was able to achieve one of his dreams to launch a website,
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Artiste and producer, Dane Ray.
Fast-rising artiste and producer, Dane Ray, will tell you that a realignment with his long-term goals is what has solidified his path to greatness. Though he was already on the road to success, having worked on Rygin King’s breakout hit Tuff, Dane Ray told The Gleaner that he knew he was capable of so much more.
Keen on making an even bigger dent in the music industry – especially on the international circuit the creative, born Waldane Hampton, said he did some serious introspection and realised he had to make some adjustments to the work he was producing. The latter paid dividends when he teamed up with the Grammy Kid Koffee earlier this year to create the megahit