FAST-RISING dancehall deejay Gage said while he has never encountered any objections to his performances in other Caribbean countries, protesters should know it’s ‘role play’.
“At the end of the day,
an artiste is just taking on a character. It’s just music. The
characters we play are sometimes different from who we really are. I
don’t like the ban and the protest because we don’t see them banning movies. However, there are rules everywhere and it is their country,” he said.
Earlier this year, controversial dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta was barred from entering Dominica while religious groups in St Kitts & Nevis and Antigua & Barbuda protested Alkaline’s performance in their country.
Gage, 24, whose given name is Ryan Douglas,
is known for hard-core and edgy lyrics. His recent looks bear an uncanny
similarity to incarcerated deejay Vybz Kartel.
Gage has done shows in Costa Rica, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
“I never changed
tune when I am performing outside of Jamaica. The audience loves the
slackness. They probably just don’t like the ‘devilish’ music and
appearance,” he surmised.
