AT just 19 years old, Brian Leo Griffith has already been drawing a lot of attention from local and overseas audiences with his music.
At the moment, he has several good things going on and couldn’t be happier at the opportunities that are coming his way.
He acquiesced that things can become stressful at times because his focus has to be divided on many things at once, but it’s a stress that he’d rather cope with than have no new developments coming his way.
Some of his latest music, “Who may that be,” “SpaceMan,” and “Crazy People” have been booming in foreign countries, drawing a lot of attention especially in Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where he has some of his roots.
Brian, who goes by the stage name ‘Acidic’ has also been signed by AJ (Adrian Johnson) Records and Diplomat Entertainment for recording and publishing new videos and other content in the near future.
Speaking with BUZZ this week on some of his newer projects, he revealed that he is waiting to finalise a contract to become a brand ambassador for a company. He prefers not to mention the name at this time.
Furthermore, Brian has also been booked for two foreign tours; one being in the Unites States and the other in St. Vincent. While he awaits all of these developments to become a reality, he is using the time to pursue his vocal training.
Brian is also working on some collaboration with two mainstream artistes from Jamaica who have reached out to him. “These are reigning young artistes whom Guyanese are familiar with. I do not want to mention names as yet until everything is finalised and dates are set,” he shared.
Locally, he was also booked to perform at the ‘One Guyana’ show in September.
Now based on the West Bank of Demerara (WBD), Griffith was born to a Guyanese father and Vincentian mother in St Vincent and the Grenadines and moved to Guyana when he was 10 years old.
The young artiste had called for intellectual property laws on music to become a reality in Guyana to protect the work of artistes and allow them to earn a fair income.
“Many foreign artistes and most locals are stealing our stuff and we cannot do anything about it. We need rights for our music. There are talented people that [are] doing their craft and at the end of the day, getting nothing from it,” Griffith had said.
Starting in the music industry at a tender age, he had already recorded his first song “Party Vybz” when he was just 11 years old. Ever since then, he has remained confident that he will be able to achieve great things for himself.
However, he believes that the co-operation of others in the music will do a lot to assist young and upcoming artistes. “If the radio stations play the artistes’ music and help out each other, we all will get somewhere but that hold down and fight down thing will never work,” he had said.
Brian’s work is available on all of his social media platforms.