In Rides Nando

There is an old adage that says, “Like father, like son,” and when the father is an iconic sports figure with whom the son shares some similar physical attributes, there is sometimes great expectation that the son will walk in the footsteps of the father. However, while Hernando “Nando” Griffiths has had a strong affinity for riding from his youth, he has never harbored any dreams of duplicating the success of his father – many-times Jamaican champion jockey and a Guinness World Record holder, Winston “Fanna” Griffiths – at the race track. For while Fanna became a Jamaican legend for his exploits at riding horses, Nando appears odds-on to emulate his father’s success, but at riding riddims.

Nando is a young, and upcoming artiste who is already a hit with the ladies with his good looks who has undertaken the firm decision to go main stream hence the sudden surge of promotional activities on the local entertainment scenes. Nando has put three singles in rotation namely; Rude, Say You Wanna and Get Better. Look at All these Girls a fourth track to unleashed very soon which features production from hot young British-based producer Deewaan (Lockdown and Tiki Wine), NY-based James “JimmyGee” Gately (Nasio Fontaine’s Living in the Positive), and veteran reggae musician-producer Barry O’Hare (Burning Spear’s Grammy-award winning Calling Rastafari ) -- Nando stays true to his core reggae roots on tracks such as Say What You Wanna and Get Better, but also branches off into the pop realm on Look at All These Girls and the soca-reggaeton hybrid Rude, giving a glimpse of his vast potential to transcend any limits that one may place on him. It is precisely Nando’s unbounded potential that has O’Hare, who has been working extensively with Shaggy in recent years, so impressed that he has committed to work on at least seven potential tracks for Nando’s debut album. Currently Nando’s track, Rude seems to ignite much excitement among the ladies of course and is a collaboration with fellow artist and friend Paashot, the song is basically a fun song inspired by Ms. Triniti’s and Kartel, Lock Down track, the lyrics, playfully describes Triniti as rude.