专辑简介

Aisha's father ran a sound system and she began singing at the age of eight, building up a strong local following before beginning her recording career. At the age of sixteen she met Lippy, who owned the Locks City sound system, and she sang over the system's dub plates. In 1979, she successfully auditioned for the band Capital Letters as a backing vocalist. She went solo in 1984 and was soon introduced to Mad Professor, and after a few singles, Mad Professor produced her debut album, High Priestess (1988). A second album, Daughters of Zion appeared in 1993, with further albums in the years that followed, Aisha also working with Norman Grant of The Twinkle Brothers on two albums. She also featured on the Roots Daughters series of albums. She first performed in Jamaica in 2000 at the Augustus Pablo Benefit concert, and her debut performance in the United States came in 2004. She performed at the 2003 Meltdown festival (curated by Lee "Scratch" Perry) at London's Royal Festival Hall, which saw The Daily Telegraph describe her as "the closest we have to a female Bob Marley". In 2006, she toured internationally with Mad Professor's Ariwa Posse. To date, Aisha has also added to her albums collections, There’s more to life backed by Sly & Robbie (Ariwa) Her Singles - Do you know - Now is the time & Promises have been produced by Aisha via various Roots labels. Aisha continuously tours around the world showing the love, and enjoys spreading the message of Peace.

She also manages to write and produce many songs due to be released in her hectic work life. Aisha is in the process of completing her next album with The Ariwa label produced by Aisha and The Mad Professor. The next journey is with old stable mate Demondo of (Nu-Lovers Production) whom she previously made some demo tracks in the late 90s. Move Closer is an old Phyllis Nelson track which was recreated in the 2015 Nu-Lovers UK style. We hope that you enjoy this rendition.