Demarco represents the refined cream of a modern crop of Jamaicas most skilled and talented music practitioners. He embodies a new age of cutting-edge artistes, whose ability to intertwine song writing with music production, engineering, and performing, and whose capacity to use these skills seamlessly between Dancehall, Roots Reggae, Hip Hop, and R & B, makes him in constant demand in one role or another. He has either written, produced, or built tracks for some of the worlds most popular figures in music. Top names like singer/rapper Olivia, rapper Styles P and deejay Sean Paul have experienced his production skills, while deejay Bounty Killer and others have put vocals to his cutting lyrics.
Collin Demarco Edwards was born in Portmore St. Catherine in 1982. He attended the Ardenne High School in St Andrew, where all his interest and skills were born and took shape. He was originally a member of a school based sound system called the Future Disco. Spinning the hits and mixing them, increased his love for it, and inevitably, he graduated to performing on the sound system. Before long, just like the original founding fathers of dancehall who toasted their way to stardom on sound systems, Demarco became a constant fixture on the Sound System, riding with the team and performing all across Portmore as he played. Dancehall insiders recall him performing at the legendary Cactus Night Club as early as age 15.
Eventually he had to leave his colleagues when he migrated to New York in 1998. However, with the musical seeds firmly embedded inside him, Demarco made sure he moved in musical circles while there. He ended up in Baltimore where a close friend coached him in the various elements of making music. He learnt how to mix, use the keyboard, sequence rhythms and use drum machines to build Rap, R&B, and Dancehall rhythms. He lapped up this information hungrily, and his skills multiplied rapidly, but he had no funds to buy his own production equipment. As if determined to fulfill an undeclared destiny, he plunged himself into the work force, and worked multiple jobs so he could get the funds he needed. He managed to get them a piece at a time, and inch by inch he set about building up his home studio. The more electronics he bought, the more he practiced after work hours. Demarco recalls days when shuffling between jobs and building tracks at home, he pushed on without sleep or food, all with the dream of creating that ground breaking sizzling track.
With the buzzing Jamaican dancehall community as vibrant as it is in New York, it wasnt long before one of his rhythms was bought. He made himself known to the insiders, and before long, he was earning hard cash from some of them. The word also spread quickly about his skills, and by then artist managers and sound system operators began to approach him to build rhythms for them. Through a mutual friend, he was introduced to Star Kutt Music. They reviewed his material and immediately signed him up as a part of the team. With Star Kutt, his work load, his talent, and his reputation exploded, landing him jobs with some of Hip Hops leading players. He created tracks for rapper Styles P, and Free from BETs 106 & Park.
In addition, he landed two rhythms on Elephant Mans Good 2 Go album. He also made numerous beats alongside The Soul Diggaz, who are signed to Missy Elliot and who were involved in the production of her last three albums. While doing all this studio work, he also penned lyrics which landed on some famous lips, and did vocals that also landed on some notable tracks. Among the collaborations are: Styles P of the Lox, Tell Them Again, with Olivia of G-Unit, and one with Jabba of Hot 97 titled Lighters . He was featured on Foxy Browns album, did the Chorus for a track titled Whistle on Missy Elliots upcoming album, and the Chorus for Cat Deluna in Whine Whine Whine. Demarco also wrote for Bounty Killer Warlord Reloaded and Hey Sexy Baby, and supplied vocals on a combination with Bounty Killer titled Chap.