A self-confessed ‘Beatle baby’ born in Notting Hill, London of West Indian parents, the young Jay had unwittingly displayed latent deejaying talents even from the tender age of eight. By then, encouraged by his music-loving parents, he had bought his first record and played at his first gig – a 10th birthday party for one his female cousins – displaying for the first time, a precocious talent that was later to become the stuff of deejaying legend.
Inspired by a trip to New York, Jay decided there and then to take his deejaying career more seriously. He teamed up with his brother JOEY and built the now legendary GOOD TIMES SOUND SYSTEM – where he embarked upon a mission to fulfil a long-held childhood ambition to play at the infamous NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL – where he played FUNK, SOUL and DISCO (something completely unheard of in those days).
He became the catalyst for attracting the likes of emerging London DJ’s like Coldcut’s Jonathon More and Matt Black, Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B, Dr. Bob Jones, Danny Rampling, Talkin Loud’s Giles Peterson and MTV’s Trevor ‘The Lick’ Nelson (and many more) to join on Kiss FM, the newly created pirate station.
During the Nineties, he was responsible for introducing – then unknown US deejays and artists such as Tony Humphries, Marshall Jefferson, Blaze, Ten City, Adeva and Louis Vega (MAW) to the UK for the first time ever.
He was headhunted by Polygram Records to launch a new label called Talkin Loud with close friend and fellow deejay Gilles Peterson – signing among others – the likes of talented UK singer/songwriters Omar, Bryan Powell, Young Disciples, Galliano and Incognito. After four successful years – and many more happy years at Kiss – he decided it was time to quit both and pursue his first love – deejaying.
He regularly plays at a host of clubs, festivals and parties worldwide. Whether it’s playing upfront disco fuelled funky house in the nation’s main rooms and festivals or his much vaunted old skool jazzfunk, hip hop or chilled out beats in the back, he still manages to inject his rich musical heritage and quality in every set he plays. We are sure that the island will be the perfect place to hear a little slice of Norman Jay’s magic.
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