By: Bakary Ceesay
Clifton Hammond, Austria based Gambian Reggae dancehall artiste has releases his debut Extended Play, EP entitled ‘Journey’ in all digital platforms on 6th February 2021.
Journey, EP comprise of six tracks mixed by Mink Production Highlight International and Mastered by idubs Music.
Here is the link of the Journey EP:https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJPsvvkrPylSJQPdpzVETZQ
About: CLIFTON Hammond
Born Gambian SHEIKH TIJAN TOURAY aka CLIFTON HAMMOND.
A reggae dancehall singer, songwriter and composer based in Austria.
Having fall in love with Reggae music at an early age. CLIFTON is known by friends and people in his community as a lover of music, books, poems etc.
In his early ages he was known in school as someone always busy writing poems or stories or having a book in hand finding something interesting to learn.
Around 2003, he began writing reggae songs and at times appearing in town concerts to sing.
Covering songs of great artist like Beres hammond (jamaican singer) Morgan heritage (Jamaican singer) Dancehall masters (Gambian duo singers) Capleton (Jamaican singer) etc.
But the dream of being a musician was soon dropped for the purpose of furthering his education.
In the early 2012 he travelled to Europe where he began writing songs and poems, stories and speeches for other friends and artists.
Having always love being a singer, he later began writing songs for himself and pursuing his dream of being a musician.
In 2018 he released his first single ‘LOVE IS ALL I CAN GIVE’ which caught the attention of many music lovers.
He later got thumbs ups from producers and artists, which caught the attention of an Austrian band and producer (ANOTHAONE PRODUCTION & HOUSE OF RIDDIM) from which he signed and agreement contract for a single song (SWEET MEDITATION) on the meditation riddim which includes artists from Jamaica, Austria, kenya etc.
So far CLIFTON has released an estimate of 10 singles within a year and has finished his first album which is set to debut soon.
His songs includes: ‘Love is all I can give’, ‘Am gonna walk away’, ‘Talk to me’ ‘Your Alibi’, ‘Sweet meditation’, ‘My dreams’, ‘Another gun pop’, ‘Come make we party’ and ‘Friends’.
