NICHOLAS LARAQUE

Nicholas Laraque is most recently feature on the Mount Grove Music release, "Alpha On The Top" (2016). It is as a flute player that a young Nicholas Laraque first joined Jamaica's Regiment Band, which they saw his amazing Talent and was selected by the Band Master  to study at the Kneller Hall Royal Military School Of Music. "While studying there, I heard someone playing a soprano sax. He was playing some Kenny G song, and I instantly fell in love with the sound of the instrument", remembers Laraque.

Returning to Jamaica with a soprano saxophone of his own, young Laraque went on to playing the instrument in the Regiment Band he had reintegrated, until 2004, when he joined Skatalites trumpeter Johnny "Dizzy" More, Justine Hinds, Winston "Sparrow" Martin and Skully Simms in the Jamaican All Stars. This time, the rest IS history. 

Featured on Stephen Marley's Grammy-winning albums "Mind Control" and  "Revolution Part 1: The Root Of Life", for years now a member of the Beres Hammond Band, Laraque can always be found performing some venue around his home island of Jamaica on his "down time". At the age of 39, he has now taken on a new avenue through which to showcase his talent, perhaps the most daunting of all for any artist: his first album.