Mad Cobra is tagged as: dancehall, reggae, ragga, bashment, flex Mad Cobra is the only ragga dee-jay to have reached No.1 on the US Billboard charts. In fact he’s only the second ever reggae artist to achieve that feat in over thirty years of trying. Not bad for a 26 year old who named himself after a character in the GI Joe comic books! He was born Ewart Everton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica yet grew up in the parish of St. Mary’s, only moving back to the capital in his teens where he fostered his interest in music by guesting on the Mighty Ruler, Climax and Inner City sound-systems. His uncle Delroy “Spiderman” Thompson was the engineer at Tuff Gong and in 1989 produced his first record “Respect Woman”. That was followed by “Na Go Work”, a duet with Tricia McKay and a small local hit. Before long Carl “Banton” Nelson and Captain Sinbad were producing him, encouraging the youngster to voice titles like “Ze Taurus”, “Shoot To Kill” and “Merciless Bad Boy” in the wake of the Gulf War and Ninjaman’s success with gun lyrics in the Jamaican dancehalls. Those early tunes were snapped up by the hardcore fans and Cobra himself aroused the attention of Donovan Germain’s Penthouse studio, where he teamed up with resident engineer Dave Kelly. T... Read More About Mad Cobra Biography...  Send Mad Cobra ringtones to your cell
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