Liang Ailin, born in the village of Caopu in 1969, still remembers desperate villagers clambering onto cargo trains leaving for Hong Kong. Shenzhen was a sleepy trading town surrounded by hundreds of villages before the leader at the time, Deng Xiaoping, approved one of China's first special economic zones (SEZ) there in 1980, in part to stop an exodus of those risking their lives to flee. "My classmates and I would take turns to go and get them." "There were some that came out once a week," she reminisced. Having just completed work on award-winning Bajan reggae singer David Kirton’s album Time for Change, Hulsmeier and Galt are looking forward to working with all those artistes who have been seeking out their production skills.Chen's school still stands on Sino-British Street, a 250-metre (273-yard) road sliced down the middle by the boundary between the territories, and the sole stretch where they are not separated by water.Īs border guards kept a close eye on visitors browsing instant noodles, beauty products and other mainland rarities, Chen would pocket her communist student's red scarf and slip across to buy ice cream and magazines about Hong Kong popstars. They came out winners again at the 2008 edition for the Best Soca Compilation and Producers of the Year. Last year De Red Boyz were recognised for their work at the second annual Barbados Music Awards, walking away with accolades for the Producers of the Year, Best Soca/ Calypso and Compilation of the Year. Both albums are tagged with the duo’s Red Dawg Kennel Recording Studio label. This sound can be heard on their debut album, De Red Boyz Blazing Red Soca Project, and their latest, Soca Bonfire, released last year in Barbados for the Crop Over celebrations. The duo described their sound as a crisp, danceable and spicy, groovy soca. That led to some of their later successes: “Because of that song, more people wanted to know who we were.” “And you can say it is a combination of our good vibes and chemistry.”īut Hulsmeier, 36, of Barbados, admitted they were caught by surprise at the mammoth success of Peter Ram’s Woman by My Side in their first year as a team, two years ago. “This coming together has been very fruitful and rewarding,” said Galt, a 30-year-old Trinidad export to Barbados. Hulsmeier and Galt readily acknowledge how well they get along both in the studio and outside it, adding that this may well be their hit-making formula. They finally got to work together as part of the reggae jazz band led by Arturo Tappin, a well-known Barbados saxophonist.
The two met up while Hulsmeier was a member of a group called Splashband and Galt a regular visitor to the band’s rehearsal studio. Galt was once a session guitarist and Hulsmeier a drummer. The duo has also worked with the likes of Rupee and Edwin Yearwood of Krosfyah. Some of their hits include Peter Ram’s Woman By My Side, Biggie Irie’s Nah Going Home and Farmer Nappy’s Chippin’. Musicians with a combined 36 years of experience, De Red Boyz (who got their name because of their fair complexions) are also producers responsible for some of the hottest music in the Caribbean.
To their friends they are Mikey Hulsmeier and Scott Galt, but to their clients they are De Red Boyz.
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