Nasio only heard calypsos and other native sounds until his parents brought a Phillips radio home then he started feeling soul artists like Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Sam Cooke, expanding his musical boundaries. Early idols include the Mighty Sparrow, and the Merrimen of Barbados. He sung in church and school and won the yearly singing contests at age nine, 10 & 11 over many other talented participants. He loved drumming as a child and drove everybody batty by banging on anything and everything around the house and in school. His parents stressed education, but Nasio left school after earning a primary school certificate at 14. A one room shanty was the Fontaine’s living quarters it had no running water, electricity, or plumbing. Nasio financed his first recording, produced, financed, promoted, and distributed it himself.Ī farm boy from Bagatell/Carte-Bois, in Dominica, Nasio Fontaine is the youngest of seven siblings. He was inspired at an early age by calypso artists and soul musicians such as Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye.Īn exciting, persistent singer from Dominica whose story should inspire anyone who wants to be a recording artist. His father, Atto, made his very first instrument, a piece of board with fishing lines for strings. Nasio had a habit of making instruments out of everything he could find.
When he was eight years old, Nasio began singing in the Bagatelle school and the village Catholic church choirs. Nasio is the youngest of seven children born to a Carib mother and father of African descent, in the village of Carte-Bois. Nasio Fontaine, also known simply as Nasio, is a reggae artist from the Commonwealth of Dominica.
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