Lady Saw
1985 SLady Saw (born Marion Hall, 12 July 1968, Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as "the First Lady of Dancehall". She is the first female deejay to win a Grammy Award and to be certified as a triple-platinum artist. She is also the first woman to headline dancehall shows outside her native Jamaica. Marion Hall was born in Saint Mary in 1968. At the age of 15, she took the name Lady Saw after the Jamaican deejay Tenor Saw, whose style she was said to emulate. She quit a sewing job at The Free Zone on the outskirts of Kingston; “That job wasn't for me”, she says. “I would deejay at work during the day.” to pursue music fulltime. She was soon signed to the then small Jamaican label VP Records (now a major label for many reggae artists). She debuted in 1994 with Lover Girl. She was a guest vocalist on the Jermaine Fagan track, "Life" and it was this track that brought her vocals to the attention of a wider audience. Hall is mother to three adopted children, two sons and one daughter. She touches on the issue in the lyrics of "No Less Than a Woman (Infertility)", a song from her 2007 album Walk Out. Discography1994: Lover Girl |
