I just pick up the mic and started emcee-ing with the DJ. I was supposed to perform on the boat ride. I was just on a boat ride, the DJ was there. Because the way it happened, I did not plan it. “Every time I think about it, again, it’s like the Almighty working in my favor. Ironically, the song, which introduced thousands of new fans to his impressive catalogue, came to be in the simplest of ways. The success over the years in his career came to a crescendo in 2023 with ‘A-List’, his self-proclaimed “gyal tune” offering. So what I used to do is, I used to go, hook up the boom box, download the dancehall clashes, run it through the boom box, record the whole clash, carry it in school and sell for $10,” he says, reminiscing on his earlier years. I didn’t have a computer but my aunt did. I remember, I used to carry a boom box from my house to my aunt house. I was always meant to be an entrepreneur for real because even before music, I used to hustle and sell cassettes. “I couldn’t see myself doing anything else, to be honest with you,” he adds. I just feel like everything that happened leading up to this point, that was already written for my life to happen, even the bad stuff,” Pumpa says. Outside of soca, I could’ve never dreamt this life that I’m living today. “The life that I live today, I never dreamt of this life. And I had to make the decision that have me here today.” They put me on a hot stove, its either this or that. “But I had a performance that same day in the Virgin Islands. “I was travelling too much back and forth and I was one of the top players, coach didn’t like it, he called a meeting and said we can’t allow you to leave for this other game,” the entertainer tells Loop News. Looking back on his journey to this point, the Kittitian-born artiste recalls a pivotal moment in time when he had to make the decision to withdraw from college, where he had been on a football scholarship. Sitting at the peak of his career, Virgin Islands entertainer Dennis Liburd, better known to fans as Pumpa, has no doubt that he’s on the path ordained for him by a higher being.
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