Joseph Everton "Reality" Weekes Joins Capsicum Records As 2nd Executive Producer
Capsicum CEO and A&R Director Roger Meltzer today announced the addition of Joseph Everton "Reality" Weekes to the label's Executive Production staff. He joins Osborne "Ifield" Joseph in that capacity and as a Principal in the LLC.
"Reality is a quintuple threat, a musician-writer-producer-arranger as well as a studio engineer. His list of hits in the calypso and soca genres is an arm's length, and his ability to fuse those tempos with reggae, dancehall, r&b, modern
country, gospel and pop makes him the ideal addition to our 'roots on the bottom, pop on the top' Reggae-In-Fusion Hartford Sound.
"Very few people know that the all-time calypso party record, "Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot" was penned by Reality, originally titled "Fundamental Jam." This guy has performed live in front of 30, 40, 50,000 people as a calypso and soca artist,
then turned around and packed them in again as a gospel artist.
A native of the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Reality is also known there as "King Reality" after winning the 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1978 Calypso Monarch festivals. According to those who have travelled with him on tours, when he returns to the volcano-prone island, he is in fact greeted like royalty.
Roger Meltzer and Joseph Everton "Realtity" Weekes at work in the studio