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"I wish to be able to programme some of the beats to our sounds, just to make things easier for us in the studios. So what I needed was to get Cubase installed in my computer then start practising with the keyboard and programming some initial samples. I got a promise of this installation from some kind of people who I felt were really part of us and will want things become easier for us. They instead made it tougher by not fulfilling and just kept me hanging on. But Elie didn't waste time helping out, he quickly put me through towards the solution." Principal wouldn't want any fooling, not even from his very much loved invisible students. And as Pa Boy, which means father to a boy, he would not tolerate any chicken jealous attitude from the 'boy'. With his will power, ideas, dreams and determination, the 20-year-old seems aged and matured. Pa Manjai Sey, the last of a family of six, was given 'Pa Boy' as a pampering name. He didn't allow the pamper to overwhelm him, he rather took 'Principal' as an over-ruling name. Without a music choice-maker, Pa Boy found the wave of sound blowing deep inside him at a tender age. He dreamt of a livelihood as a product of his crave. "When I was in primary school my dad often gives me 2 Dalasis for launch. I would save one Dalasi, and every three weeks it will come up to at least fifteen Dalasis. I'll then rush to buy a reggae or rap tape." That was the toddling stage of the million miles journey. Principal bought as much tapes and listened so often that he got the inspiration of writing his own lyrics. "I knew what good music was and the sort of lyrics that could pass messages and still be very harmonious to ears. When I started writing mine, it was what I could call scrap. I knew that I wasn't making any sense. With guidance from my cousin, Radio One FM's Daddy Elie, I improved." At age 12, Principal was prepared enough to record a
demo-single. It was really a demonstration of what he felt. Kee suma Nonela,
which meant pay back evil with good, was demonstrated on an instrumental already
used by BennieMan and Sugar Minnott. Pa Boy's meeting with Musa Njie (Flying
Lion) opened a gate of joint dreams. Pencha B, a notable name in Gambia's rap scene, is actually living in and out of its meaning. As it means a meeting place or rendezvous corner, Pencha B has taken that status of meeting point for peacemakers. First, their fire-spitting debut Chosaan Ken Dumon, which took its bath, wore its clothes, shoes and make-ups at Yellowgate studios, suddenly turned from clean to a misty water. Even the deaf tipped the album for an all time success, but its ailment refused. The next was some internal misunderstandings that made the quintet to become a quartet. With Principal back in the arms of the group's guiding father, Elie Nachif, and the home that started the promising cultured crew, there's a hope of a soon make-up to the break-up. "I'll be very glad if that happens. In fact, I'm praying that it happens. We started at Yellowgate and we got our basics from the studio, so it will be a wonderful thing if we trim all overlapping stones to level. We'll have a smoother road." Pa Boy's views are honest ones. He isn't leaning on a favour. He's rather clearing a village square for a merry-making reconciliation. Principal's surprise of Elie's free-mind attitude was expressed with these last words: "Elie Nachif is a man good to emulate in the way he receives side or awful talks. He takes the words and quietly throws them where they belong, the garbage bin. He rather pays back with surprising hospitality and favours." source Yellowgates |
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