FROM NOW ON THE RIDE WILL BE SMOOTH, ABRAHAM SMOOOTH
“I bring positive music and true stories to inspire the nation, through all creation” – Abraham Smooth.
Born in Mandeville, Manchester, where he went to Villa Road All Age and then Bellefield High School before moving to Ocho Rios, and now living and working in Grand Cayman for the last four years, Abraham Lynch, known on stage as Abraham Smooth, is looking to catapult his music career with the roots reggae offering Mi See It.
Describing the song as a vision from God, Abraham says “the Most High show you nuff things before they happen, and I see a lot in my visions.”
The forty-something year old first recorded in a studio when he was 20. This was the Lego studio on Orange Street, and he remembers the moment as first being a nervous one, until he eventually relaxed and experienced complete joy.
“I want to be in the studio as much as I need. I want to always do music and to find a way to help our younger generations,” says Smooth who enjoys chanting his songs in quiet moments on riverbanks.
Although Smooth’s first studio experience came at 20, he knew from at least 12 that he wanted to sing. “There was never a time I could do without music in my daily life. My mom sang and my father sang and played the guitar, so I grew up with music,” the crooner explains.
Abraham tried his hand at the guitar and had to give it up when he broke his dad’s guitar strings, but there’s something else that Mr. Smooth took up that puts bread on the table and mesmerizes his audiences. Our smooth crooner is also a fire breathing, limbo dancing expert and this is what he does in Grand Cayman. He also is a steady fixture on the karaoke scene there.
Karaoke is good practice, but it is not the studio, and Abraham is at home at studios, so in comes the online studio Twin Audio Network, which consists of Patrick Lafayette, who is located in Miami, Florida and Dominique Stansberry, who is in Wako, Texas. Following an introduction by a friend of Abraham and Patrick, both went down to a frenzied online music production business, alongside Dominique. So, look out for some more infused tracks from this global connection.
Christened Abraham Smooth because of the ‘smood like silk’ description his friends gave his singing style, delivery and voice, Abraham does remind a bit of Garnet Silk, in the ease of delivery, tone and quality of voice. He however is not a Silk copy. His style is his, unique and purposeful.
“I choose music. It gives me a chance to tell my story through melody and to teach the nation positive truths,” says the roots crooner, who is a Magnum Kings and Queen and Digicel Rising Stars alum. He names Garnet Silk, Bob Marley and the Marley clan as his musical heroes who have influenced his style.
Fitting into the roots reggae genre and produced by Twin Audio Network, Mi See It, is one of those songs you ‘hol’ a medz’, nod your head and agree to, as the singer puts a mirror up against situations we can relate to as individuals and a collective marginalized people.
Fab Five’s Sydney Thorpe on keyboard, joins the Twin Audio Network team on the production side of Mi See it In Mi See It. With great production direction and assistance from Patrick Lafayette and Dominique Stansberry who also doubles as backup vocals, and with keyboard styling from Sydney Thorpe, Mi See It is a worthy contribution to reggae’s catalogue.