2007 Promises to be Another Groundbreaking Year for Peter Ram
Posted 06-20-07

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Since the release of Peter Ram's "Woman by My Side" in July 2006 he has been travelling extensively across the Caribbean region to neighbouring territories such as Trinidad, Antigua, Tortola, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada and Carriacou.

Produced by Mikey Hulsimier and Scott Gault known as the Red Dawg's the song was remixed ("Woman by My Side Remix") and released for Trinidad Carnival 2007, featuring 2006 Power Soca Monarch King, Shurwayne Winchester of the band Traffik, who is also one of the top soca artistes in that country.

The resounding success of this track has commanded much attention in the international market, as it continues to receive excellent reviews on the music charts and consistent airplay, especially the USA where there is a strong West Indian presence in Miami, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey.

Having had such a rewarding year thus far, one should not be surprised that this artiste whose songwriting and performance continues to improve yearly; has been nominated in two (2) categories at the 5th Annual International Soca Awards.

This event, which is the most prestigious awards show in the Soca recording industry has nominated Peter Ram for a total of five awards; Best New Male Soca Artist, Soca Song of the Year , Favourite Up-Tempo Soca (Male), Best Soca Music Video and two (2) awards in the Best Soca Re-Mix Collaboration; featuring remixes with Shurwayne Winchester and Vybz Kartel.

Now in its fifth year, only a few Barbadian artistes have escalated to such a prestigious level in the international soca arena, and it can be said that Peter Ram is now in the top international soca arena ranking amongst persons such as; Edwin Yearwood, Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and Kevin Lyttle.

Not only is "Woman by My Side" making waves with significant airplay but , more recently Peter Ramshot his second music video, on location in Barbados by Roland "Remy" Yearwood of Trinidad and Tobago. The video has been added to VH1 Soul's Island Soul programming and is scheduled initially to receive three (3) spins per week and subsequently will be added to their catalogue. It has also been added to Music Choice TV, a video on demand channel.

There is no disputing the regional and international flavour of this music video, which features persons from varying ethnicities and pays special tribute to women of every race, colour and social background. This cultural potpourri has earned the video landed Peter Ram the no 3 position on MTVN TEMPO's Cross Caribbean Countdown; the only dedicated network to Caribbean music.

The video has also been distributed to over one hundred and fifty (150) television shows within the USA and Canada, and is expected to be released on a number of them by the middle of June.

More recently, Peter Ram was invited by TEMPO to render a special guest appearance to perform "Woman By My Side" with Shurwayne Winchester at the Rock the Tempo show at the Lionel Roberts Stadium in St. Thomas, British Virgin Islands. Singing to a capacity crowd of over 10,000 Peter Ram appeared alongside other headline acts such as international recording artistes Shaggy and Maxi Priest, Tessane Chin.

2007 promises to be another groundbreaking year for Peter Ram. He has already released "Pumpin" produced by Darron Grant of Underground Studios which is receiving steady rotation and will shortly be releasing another single from the Red Dawg's called "Smoke Signal" for the upcoming Crop Over festival.

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