Born in the hub of the pacific Suva City Fiji Islands, Stevie J.Heatley started out as a young reggae singer with his band Purple Haze and later became frontman for Fiji's first reggae band Exodus before they toured the south pacific with their Wailers type reggae groove.10 years after the first military coup in 1987 the year he started,Stevie had done most of the club circuits,landed a recording contract in New Caledonia,and had played supporting acts to three international artist one being the late Luck Dube.In the mid 90's he started singing jazz blues and soul to help him develop his vocals and knowledge to start producing.by the year 2000 he had done most five stars and exclusive resorts ,produced a number of commercials for radio and tv,soundtrack for one documentary and organised Fiji's first ONE Love free concert at Wailoaloa Beach in Nadi.Yes backyard sorted he moved to Aotearoa NZ in 2005 and plays regularly around Auckland with two other fantastic musicians and producers.former guitarist for The Wailers Roy Venkataraman is one and the other is Warren Mendonsa one of the most enjoyable blues guitarist you'll ever get to hear.Stevie J, recentley performed at the Bay Of Islands Jazz And Blues Festival and is currently busy finishing his first major release,a jazzy rootsy reggae album with all the influences from his journey ,let's just wait and see...listen
Wat up Stevie J.Heatley, I'm not usually into the whole mass commenting thing, so apologies if this comes across like some spam...but it aint! Just in case you haven't checked it yet...here's my new video for Whoa (remix with PNC & Flowz). Directed by Shahir Daud with a tiny $6000 budget and a solid 7 months in post production! Lemme know what you think and feel free to help a dude out by linking your friends up if you think they might like it!
Firstly, thanks very much for having The Jukes as one of your friends here on myspace. We're pretty proud to report that we've had about 1500 plays of our blues tunes. That may not be huge in the scheme of things but not bad for a pretty new band down in little old’ New Zealand.
We've been also been gigging around Auckland town and have been knocked out by the response.
So, we would like to thank everyone for their kind support and comments.
Our plan is to hopefully record some more tunes in the New Year. We are also planning to video some more live performances and post them on YouTube fairly shortly.
Thanks once again, compliments of the season and best wishes to all our friends. We wish you a prosperous and blues filled New Year.
Bula Stevie,
I waited for the colour to come up on your page and Yeah the blue and black background puts some drama in to it.
txt me as you know moves today.
ken
hay wassup?! sorry i havent gotten back to you sooner - been busy as - ima call you or message you asap when i got ma tracks sorted - hopefully you still avaible to record..peace
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