Article About Sizzla You Can Use Babylon has set up a system designed to keep black people enslaved and ashamed of their culture The system is so structured that the only way for black people is to look to the east and seek repatriation to the continent of their origin guided by the Trinity of Haile Selassie Marcus Garvey and Immanuel and thier teachings This is the message of Sizzla and it influences his music to the extent that he is being looked upon as the teacher and the inspiration for Jamaican youths who want to retain the basic culture of their African origins Sizzla s songs speak to poverty and hopelessness that pervades young Jamaica and obviously oppressed youths worldwide Like Bob Marley a couple of generations before him he delivers a message which speaks to poverty homelessness police brutality cultural pride and political and religious oppression Born Miguel Collins Sizzla is a product of one of Jamaica s uptown ghettos August Town One of his earliest experiences of how unfair the social system is in Jamaica was while he was in his mid teens In order to get into a Technical High School so he could learn a trade and have a better chance of earning a living he had to leave High School go back to pre high and then apply to get into a High School which taught trades Dunoon High School where he studied Mechanical Engineering Dunoon has a reputation of association with some of the best dancehall deejays from the city including Shabba Ranks and Lady G So with an inner inclination towards music it wasn t surprising that while there he started recording music It was Homer Harris the same man who gave Buju Banton his first break who introduced him to top Jamaican saxophonist Dean Frazier Musical Director for Philip Fattis Burrell s Xterminator Family Fatis was delighted with his potential decided to record him Sizzla who had originally planned to follow in the footsteps of his mechanic father Aston suddenly had a change of heart He abandoned his mechanic training came under the influence of Buju Banton and Shabba Ranks cassettes and decided to stick to music The auto industry loss was a tremendous gain for the music industry in Jamaica and indeed around the world Since the start of 1997 Sizzla s popularity within the music industry has grown so rapidly he is considered a musical phenomenon His tunes fill the charts and sales have been so trmrndous that every reggae producer wished he had a Sizzla song to release and every sound system wants a Sizzla dubplate to be current Touring with the Xterminator Family and star perfomer Luciano has gained for him tremendous experience and exposure and now Sizzla is about to move up the ranks and make his name as a musical prophet and messenger in his own right