SPANGLISH BIOGRAPHY
Biography…. “SPANGLISH” Anthony Dennis Reid :
Anthony Dennis Reid popularly known as ‘Spanglish” was born in kingston Jamaica, on January 12 1981. “Favourite quotes”
“Anything the mind conceive can become a reality” “It’s not who or what you are but who or what you can become”
Reggae dancehall artist Spanglish who was formerly known as Cronix was born on January 12 1981 in Kingston Jamaica.Registered as Anthony Dennis Reid, Spanglish has been involved with music since he was a teenager singing in his church choir at the Shiloh AME church in Clarendon Jamaica.
Spanglish, who was formerly know as Cronix, changed his artistic name from Cronix to Spanglish in March 2013. Before Spanglish was his style of music doing dancehall and reggae music in both Spanish and English.
Spanglish studied Agronomic Engineering at the University of Granma in cuba where he acquired is first Bsc. After that he went on to specialize in Business management and administration where he got his Msc. Today the artist speaks over 5 languages, English, Spanish, Dutch, Sranatongo, Saramaccans with excellent dominance of Portuguese.
Before the career of music Spanglish has worked in several different sectors in other professional industry. Apart from being the Owner of Fortaleza Consultancy, he also worked as an advisor to a District Commissioner up to 2014, before Spanglish was a Program manager of the Fair Economic Development Program in Suriname. Spanglish also worked as a radio announcer since 2011 at one of Surinamese top radio station abc 101.7 where he aired three radio programs per week. Spanglish first began with radio announcement as an MC with Surinamese reggae dance hall sensation Jamrock Suriname early 2011.on RP the Hot1 89.7,
During the years from 2001- 2004 Spanglish was a university DJ and MC playing at different university campus parties all across Cuba before graduating into a recording artist in 2005. He was encouraged to consider signing by school friends but took the ultimate step to venture into stage singing when he met Rapper Victor, from the Cuban rap group ‘Pura Raza’and Lazaro from the Reggaeton group “ los mestizos” in Cuba . Spanglish recorded his debut single in 2005 in Bayamo Cuba with Reynier Records.
Spanglish is one of Jamaica’s first bi-lingual Reggae dancehall artists to sing in both Spanish and English incorporating the Latin Reggaeton along with the afro kizomba into the Jamaican dancehall reggae style to produce a new and unique sound.
To date Spanglish has recorded several tracks and has done several collaborations with other English, Spanish and Dutch artists. Such as, Two tone, Nenge flow, Eric Macahdo, Mixey, Luscious, Yoni, Café exclusive, flow Cubano, Los Mestizos, Silent, No space, Luscious, and Lil Lisa .
Even though he has been recording since 2005 Spanglish went professional in 2011 when he moved to Suriname. He signed is first professional music Agreement in 2013 with German based record label YAWA Music and IDIM from the netherlands in June 2014 he signed an partnership agreement with G-Block Recordz. Spanglish has a;lready made appearances in countries such as The Netherlands, Belgium, Guyana, Curacao, Cuba and Suriname.
Spanglish is known for tracks such as. Want me, Love to the beat, Mr. Ebola, Is this love, Senorita remix, shake it ft Froidz, Guilty, Dear mama, Money, we love to dance, Party 365, Love to the beat, represent fi mi blocks, Preements, and many more. …..