OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 286 7th December 2017 | Page 38

OMG Digital Magazine | 286 | Thursday 7 December 2017 • PAGE 38
Craig ‘Craigy T’ Thompson
In Preparatory school, he was told that he  wasn't good
enough to be a part of the school choir. Since then, the
disappointment of hearing ‘you’re not good enough’ has
been a driving force for this artist, and has played a major
role in his musical development over the last two decades.
Craig Patrick Anthony Thompson, more popularly known
as Craigy T, was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1977. The
passion for music fermented while attending high school
at Campion College in Kingston Jamaica, where Craigy T
and his friends formed the now iconic group T.O.K.
Ironically the group was formed through their interaction
with the High School choir. Craigy T and Bay C {another
member of the group} were friends before they eventually
got to know the other members. Labeled as “uptown boys’
doing dancehall music, the group was often ridiculed
because at the time dancehall music was generalized as a
way out for the poor.
The Group created history by being the first ‘uptown’
group to break into the dancehall fraternity and landed