On the decks ...
Club DJs
Shumbatafari: DJ V & DJ
Banks
They rock the radio airwaves by
getting the weekend started with
their club tunes, and they are part
of a brand that calls out all the
party people to the clubs. If you
have not heard these guys play, you
better start now because they
definitely know how to spin those
decks. They are n’sync like the
music they play; they bring the
house down and they are the
members of Shumbatafari, Dj V
and Dj Banks.
GM.: Welcome to Groove magazine.
Please tell us about yourselves
DJ Banks: You mean individually, or as
a group? (Brief chattering between DJ V
and DJ Banks)
DJ V: We are brothers as well as
cousins. What else can I tell you? Uh,
and uh we are a group. Our group is
called Shumbatafari, you know, though
we’ve got our individual names in the
group, as we play individual genres of
music in the group.
So yeah, the real Shumbatafari
is kinda like a house name, like
a brand, you know like my shirt
here, the Shumbatafari shirt.
Banks has got his own thing
going on but you know, he can
wear the Shumbatafari shirt but
I can’t wear his label so it’s like
DJ Banks is gonna sign his label
so it’s like has got his own label
so. (He laughs)
GM.: Okay.
DJ V: Yeah so this is like the
house brand, you see, we…..we
are brothers, we are family. We
came up with the concept
which, this concept of
Shumbatafari. Shumba
means we are like tough a
shumba. Uh…Tafari is
derived from tafara in a
Rasta way…eh like we
please people, our job, like
it kinda like beats. There
are some people that Rasta
people come and tell me
what it means just from
hearing the name but some
people find it hard to
understand what it
actually means but…
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