After having composed a lot for others, Staniski has recently decided to compose for himself and has called Maureen and Mister Vegas. The dancehall track they propose today is “Whine it Up”.
Staniski, whose real name is Samuel Stanislas, has been a very well-known name in the music world for a few years now and many compositions – from zouk to konpa through rap and dancehall – have passed through his hands.
Indeed, artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana, Haiti, Jamaica and France – such as Admiral T, Fanny J, Riddla, Fuckly, Nesly, Daly, Saïk, T Kimp Gee, Misié Sadik, Were Vana, Stony, Antony Drew, Lycinais Jean, Marvin, Phylisia Ross, X Man, Carimi, Wyclef Jean, Busy Signal, Morgan Heritage, Patrick Saint-Éloi, Tanya Saint-Val and the list is far from being exhaustive – had the opportunity to discover the “Staniski Touch”.
The composer, director and producer, who trained at the SAE Institute in the Paris region, began working in the French capital in 1997 as a production assistant at AwA studio on Island Polygram projects. Three years later, he started a collaboration with the Riko Rekords label which will materialize by Fuckly’s album and will make known the Creole rap. In 2006, he left Riko Rekords to launch the Suntracks label with Smiley and continued his collaboration with artists of various musical genres before creating his own structure – Jade Music – and success is still there.
As for Maureen, she is a 23-year-old Martinican singer and dancer. She is the rising star of dancehall in Martinique and more precisely of “shatta”, a local variant of this Jamaican music where the sounds are hybrid and the bass is predominant. She made her debut as a singer in 2019 thanks to Lijay, the producer of the Blackstane label, by performing the tracks “Joke” and then “Flex”. Her hit song “Tic” will be featured in the Mugler Spring Summer 2021 fashion show. Today, Maureen is the most popular artist of this music style with hundreds of thousands of listeners per month on streaming platforms. In 2022, she did her first featurings with Martinican dancehall singer Kalash on the track “Laptop” (Tombolo album), French rapper Lala &ce on the track “Mise à mort” and famous Jamaican dancehall singer and musician who has many hits in his repertoire after 25-year career, Mr Vegas, on the Staniski’s track, “Whine it up”.
Directed by Jean-Marie “Jima” Kanor, the video of “Whine it up” is available on Youtube.
If “Whine it up” is announced as one of the big hits of this end of 2022, we will see if it will receive a warm welcome from the Jamaican audience…
