November 17th, 2008

Half Pint inks distribution deal with Essential — Universal Music Group

Essen­tial Media Group LLC and Loyal Haylet Man­age­ment are pleased to announce the sign­ing of a Joint Ven­ture deal for the Half Pint Music cat­a­log and the ven­er­a­ble chart top­ping Dance­hall Reg­gae super­star, Half Pint.
Half Pint has enjoyed a long his­tory of suc­cess dat­ing back to the early 1980’s. He was the first major artist pro­duced by Prince Jammy (later King Jammy), and together they helped estab­lish a lighter, more relaxed, more melodic approach to dance­hall that made for an easy tran­si­tion into the dig­i­tal ragga era. His first big hit “Win­some” was later cov­ered by the Rolling Stones in 1986 (under the new title “Too Rude”). Many hits fol­lowed: “Money Man Skank,” “One in a Mil­lion,” “One Big Fam­ily,” “Pouchie Lou,” the socially con­scious “Mr. Land­lord,” and the all-time dance­hall clas­sic “Level the Vibes.” The huge hit “Sub­sti­tute Lover” came in 1992, and in 1996 the rock group Sub­lime cov­ered another Half Pint clas­sic, “Loving.”
Essen­tial will shortly release NO STRESS EXPRESS, the highly antic­i­pated album of entirely new mate­r­ial with dis­tri­b­u­tion via Uni­ver­sal Music Group Dis­tri­b­u­tion, and a dig­i­tally remas­tered Great­est Hits com­pi­la­tion to be dis­trib­uted by IDN. In addi­tion, Essen­tial intends to release the entire Half Pint back cat­a­logue on CD, includ­ing avail­abil­ity through I-Tunes and all major dig­i­tal outlets.
For more infor­ma­tion, contact:
ESSENTIAL MEDIA GROUP
( +1 954 208 0552
R +1 954 208 0061
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