Maxi Priest to perform live in concert in Port Moresby

Reggae fans get ready because Maxi Priest will be in Port Moresby next week.

Papua New Guinean’s leading night club and the party capital of the South Pacific – the Lamana Gold Club will present Maxi Priest live in Concert.

Maxi Priest will arrive next week Saturday and in the evening he will perform at 10pm for one night only.

Tickets are available only at Lamang Hotel’s reception.

K100 will get you in the arena dance floor, K200 backstage while K300 balcony.

Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all-time.

This is will be Maxi Priest second time to Papua New Guinean especially Port Moresby.

Maxi Priest’s songs are also popular in PNG as there are reggae followers in this country.

Some of his songs titled ‘Just a little bit longer’ and ‘tender touch’ are old time favourites in PNG.

He was born on June 10, 1961.

Maxi Priest was born in Lewisham, London, the second to last of nine brothers and sisters. His parents moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to gospel, reggae, R&B, and pop music. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother who was a Pentecostal missionary. Maxi grew up listening to Jamaican greats such as Dennis Brown,John Holt, Ken Boothe and Gregory Isaacs, as well as singers like Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra.