Doors Open for
Dancehall Sensation Ce’Cile

"For the longest time, I was actually working on my album on my own, then I got the three album record deal with Delicious Vinyl," comments an excited Ce’Cile. "They really liked my music, so that was one of my deciding factors to go with them. The album is basically completed now and we’ve just got a few collaborations left to add to it and some revamping of the existing tracks, just to be sure that it can go where our music is going these days."

This is a bold decision for Ce’Cile, as history has proven that non-Caribbean based record labels have not had an entirely successful run with the marketing of reggae music, however, she feels confident that the US label will be able to take her to the next level. "I hope that they can take me forward," she confides to the Reggae Review. "With Sean’s (Paul) success comes more recognition and interest in the music. Reggae is now a force to be reckoned with as opposed to there only being one reggae artist making it. We’ve had some success before and things have happened for artists like Beenie Man and Tanto Metro & Devonte, but doors have really opened up now like a huge floodgate with Sean. I don’t think it should be that much of a problem, I believe that Delicious Vinyl has the potential to move me in the right direction."

Backtracking to the "Do It To Me Baby" track, produced by Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell on the Coolie Dance rhythm, the risqué song touches on the subject of oral sex being performed on women by men. With no less than twenty artistes on the Coolie Dance rhythm, Ce’Cile’s effort remains one of the least played by radio jocks, although the airwaves have never been short of male deejays glorifying the opposite. When asked what inspired her to record the song, her reasons are quite simple. "I figured why not be myself and I just decided to do it. Yes it’s a song about oral sex which I guess is a taboo subject in the Jamaican dancehall and for Jamaican entertainers to sing about, but I don’t come from that kind of place where we don’t talk about those things." Handling her craft exceptionally well, the song made it into the top five on local Jamaican charts, but the controversy that follows the petite artist didn’t end there. "I read in the newspaper that my video for the song was banned and I was really surprised by the decision, I didn’t even know that people were looking at the video and saying what is appropriate and what isn’t," says Ce’Cile. "Had I known this information beforehand, then I would have made the video differently, not that I think there is anything on it that’s inappropriate. I think that what happened is the TV channel showed the video during an afternoon program geared specifically towards kids. Now, that’s the television stations problem, as they shouldn’t have shown it at that time, and I agree that they shouldn’t have either. However, I must say that even though I’m not familiar with the program, I know that if they ban my video, then they’ll have to ban a lot of other American videos that are shown on our TV stations."