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Please allow me to introduce myself My name is Steven aka Sticko. im a vocalist and play several instruments like drums, conga, steel pan, keyboard, guitar, bass and flute.

The Past:
I grew up with Soul Soca and Calypso music which my Mom played frequently every Sunday morning in the house. A major change of style occurred when Paul my Sister husband introduced me to the sweet sound of Reggae I got inspired by the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers. from day one I heard Bob Marley sing.

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made songs for people who were in need for a voice. Cause there own can’t be heard in the ghetto.That right there is Rastafari philosophy A Rasta is a person who defends truth and right. I became acquainted with music at a very young age. At the age of five I got my first instrument: an old steel drum set given by his father. Naturally my first performance, at the age of nine, was with my dad’s band, (drssb) who at the time hit the Dutch charts with January-February/ The calendar song.

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got the chance to present and select on a radio station in The Netherlands called Radio Freedom @t the (Drieluik) in Zaanstad. With (Bobby Opdam). From that moment in time I focused on reggae music and performed as a session musician playing in several studios and with various reggae bands all over Europe. I’ve worked and performed with Gyptian, Mykal Rose, Eric Donaldson, Earl 16, General Levy, Eek-a-Mouse, Postman Papa Touwtjie & Djinti from Suriname and Kongo Banga from (Kongo-Zaïre ) just to name a view people. In early 1998, at the request of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, Kongo Banga and me performed at the ceremonies of the 60th anniversary of H.M.the Queen and H.H. Prince Claus, in the presence of several European and world authorities, at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

The Future: With the help of Yah, my CD’s-DVD’s and Video’s will flourish and be a part of your subconscious mind. Its was Bob Marley who showed me the light.I hope to take this a step further and pick things up what Bob left,. Jah Knows. Rasta is a livity Rasta no think! Rasta Know!

Cancer After being diagnosed with Cancer in my stomach late January 2014 i’m Currently I’m working on releasing me first album. January ties words ” you got Cancer” change me entire life. a tumor of 9 cm has settled in my stomach from there i went hospital in and out. Doc told me after X-ray that my stomach is 10 cm and the tumor 9 cm. and i’m got to take out my entire stomach and a piece of my lymph nodes. I seh Wha? …because mi a Rastaman i first went looking for alternative medications like the weed oil and all kinds of known cures. and i must say the weed oil did help until a certain point. so when the Doc told me to take the chemo and do the operation ore els!!! i took the chemo and did the operation.

Well the doctor told me this chemo cure going to kill me more, and that after awhile my body will take over and repair it self. it did happen,. i really tough i was not going to make it, it make you feel so ill and so miserable you almost prefer death over life. i know it sounds dread, but that it was,. dread!!!. i did the operation and them took away me stomach and a piece of my lymph nodes. im a guy who love food and it smells and things, but cause of the chemo all taste disrepair it was 4 moths later when i got back me taste for food and smell. my hear (dreadlocks) got thin on the scalp of my head, and after times my Rasta Sister Neomi who helpt me tighten my locks in the hospital seh your hear is getting tinner and tinner,. and then after long nights with out sleep i got a vision by Yah self. and i trimmed of me dreadlocks. now i’m almost a year ahead and the doc told me me clean…if lost 30 kilos of weight. doc told me that i will never get back my weight what was 82 kilos and i got to focus on me overall condition and be happy with baby steps,… the first weeks i could not climb no stairs for example and could not walk for ten minutes but now. i feel stronger and stronger again, i even did band rehearsals and some live shows…

The future

Yah knows what my future will brings. but i’m hoping to finished my CD witch become a life time project cause its already from the nineties i got this urge to bring out me own CD but then always something came in the way. ” artist from abroad, ore relationships, children, jealousy and many more xperiences what kept me from producing me disk. it is now a days that i seeing my CD project if coming to an end and getting ready to present to the World. the lyrics i wright, are about various social themes what is happening around me during my life & career, and that a variates big time. if bin over the world and met all kinds of people, bin in all kinds of countries like Russia, Asia. South America even Iceland to name a view. I met Queens and Kings, Aboriginals, Mobsters, Chinese, Holy men, and many more ordinary people. i heard them cry over all kind situations, and me always seh to me self. i got to do something with tier stories and so i went processed them in my lyrics. my cd will be an xperience you will not ignore for you will recognize things from your own life…