Another single “Under Attack” from Wolf Catcher kept the sales flowing and Nasio was an island sensation. A single from the album “Wanna Go Home,” helped by a video really blew him up. The record became a success and Nasio garnered many awards. He released his next CD Reggae Power, in 1994 and went on another island-to-island promotion tour. Nasio sweetened some of the tracks in Jamaica in 1992, and had 2,000 copies pressed. Nasio recorded Babylon Is Falling, a five-song EP in 1990, but shelved it for four years, releasing it only after being prompted by a friend. Marteen and continued to work the docks and the grocery stores to save enough money to bankroll another recording. He became known as the Born-To-Be-Free-Man in St. Nasio went from island to island promoting his creation, making sure to leave records at the radio stations with the biggest antennas. Marteen alone, the island’s biggest selling record ever. By 1986 he’d saved enough to record a 12- inch single entitled “Born To Be Free” b/w “Party.” “Born To Be Free” became a major Carribean hit, it sold 5,000 copies in St. He did odd jobs–working the docks and sweeping stores–saved his money and financed his first recording with the help of his brother. Maarten in 1981 and absorbed Reggae music, and adopted the Rastafarian lifestyle, something he didn’t dare do in Dominica where the Rastafarian culture was barely tolerated and followers were often killed for wearing dread locks. Nasio only heard calypsos and other native sounds until his parents brought a Phillips radio home then he started feeling soul artists like Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Sam Cooke, expanding his musical boundaries. Early idols include the Mighty Sparrow, and the Merrimen of Barbados. He sung in church and school and won the yearly singing contests at age nine, 10 & 11 over many other talented participants. He loved drumming as a child and drove everybody batty by banging on anything and everything around the house and in school. His parents stressed education, but Nasio left school after earning a primary school certificate at 14. A one room shanty was the Fontaine’s living quarters it had no running water, electricity, or plumbing. Nasio financed his first recording, produced, financed, promoted, and distributed it himself.Ī farm boy from Bagatell/Carte-Bois, in Dominica, Nasio Fontaine is the youngest of seven siblings. He was inspired at an early age by calypso artists and soul musicians such as Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye.Īn exciting, persistent singer from Dominica whose story should inspire anyone who wants to be a recording artist. His father, Atto, made his very first instrument, a piece of board with fishing lines for strings. Nasio had a habit of making instruments out of everything he could find. When he was eight years old, Nasio began singing in the Bagatelle school and the village Catholic church choirs. Nasio is the youngest of seven children born to a Carib mother and father of African descent, in the village of Carte-Bois. Nasio Fontaine, also known simply as Nasio, is a reggae artist from the Commonwealth of Dominica.
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