Born in a small district in St. Mary, named Mount Regale on a Saturday morning, Trooper came into the world hearing a sound system playing from the night before because the house he was delivered in was in a dancehall. He grew up seeing a lot of sounds coming and going out of his birthplace and that's where the love for the sound systems kicked in. As a child he used to make speaker boxes and amps out of mud and soap boxes and kept imaginary dances with the kids in his birthplace. He then moved to Spanish Town where he was then exposed to a lot of different sound systems playing in front of his home once again. The sound system bug was biting him again.

He linked up with a famous sound owner by the name of Copey who had a sound by the name of Coptic Hi-power, at the tender age of 8 years old and that's where he began to learn the art of one of Jamaica's biggest musical culture known as the sound system. That was going to let him be famous all over the world. He was taught every trick in the sound world by Copey the prof and that's where he learned to play studio one music and the art of selecting for a packed dance of patrons as a kid going to primary school. His mother used to take him to the dances sometime and wait until he finished work she took him home. She is still supportive of his two talents he moulded from he was young child. A selector and a snare drummer in a drum corp he helped formed that goes by the name of the Magnificent Troopers where Trooper got the famous name.

He then moved on and started to dj on diffrent sound sytems and his selecting skills were forgotten for a couple of years because Trooper became a full pledged dj with Creation Rock Tower with Papa San, Bunny General, Lecturer and the late Dirtsman.

He then moved to Killamanjaro as a dj with the likes of Ninjaman etc and that was when again is selecting skills came back into play. And after that history in the sound world was written again. Trooper killed the most sounds, won the most trophies, played in the biggest dances to date eg Killamanjaro & Addies the biggest clash in history. He made a lot of artist famous like Sizzla, Luciano, Anthony B, Garnet Silk, Beeniman etc.

He started Sound Trooper in the year 2000 and history was written again because Trooper once again put a next sound on the road that gain worldwide recognition in no time so the struggle is still on.

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