Sometimes you stumble, make it part of the dance

~unknown.


I am DeeFire- a musical rebel born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. I loved music from I was a toddler. 

From I was 4 or 5 I remember falling in love with the old piano we had at our house. It was a hand-me down from my aunt's to my dad’s household. The piano inspired me, and I began lessons at 8.

For most of my childhood, I would sing and play whenever I could. I would croon the hymns my family sang in church each week. At 12 years old, I remember whispering a prayer saying that if there was anything I wanted to do in this world it was to entertain and motivate people. I then shrugged this off as being an impossibility. These were not vocations spoken about in Jamaica or at least amongst the circles where I grew up.

With the years, I seemed to have forgot about my love for music. I pursued other theatre interests: I was a member of the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company, had a brief stint as a University Singer  at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and in more recent years was a dancer and performer in one of the theatre charitable groups in the British Virgin Islands. 

One day I decided to experiment with song-writing because for years I had been ignoring the snippets of new melodies and song ideas that came through my head.   It took me about 15 minutes or less to write that first song from start to finish, perhaps because I had waited so long. The only thing missing was an instrument to make the music come alive.  I resolved that day that I was going to get a keyboard because in a few minutes what was curiosity became a haunting compulsion to create not just a song, but to find and connect with every note being played for every word being said. Writing was my new way to make-out and my obsession...didn't need food, lots of money or even _ _ _ _ _ (you may fill in my blanks here) when I had all this music competing to bust out of my lately, usually very self-contained self. Well, that's how I felt. It felt that good.  

My first song ignited so many happy emotions. It was the first of many that I’ve written, and I will release it someday.

In creating music, I find light, love — with some crazy kind of energy.

With so much trouble in the world, I hope that my music will be an escape for all who hear.

Enjoy the music! D
XOXO ~DEON