Nasio Fontaine

Nasio Fontaine, also known simply as Nasio, is a reggae artist from the Commonwealth of Dominica. Nasio was the youngest of seven children born to a Carib Indian mother and father of African descent, in the village of Carte-Bois. When he was eight years old, Nasio began singing in the Bagatelle school and the village Catholic church choirs. Nasio had a habit of making instruments out of everything he could find. His father, Atto, made his very first instrument, a piece of board with fishing lines for strings. He was inspired at an early age by calypso artists and soul musicians such as Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye. In 1981, he moved from Dominica to the island of St. Maarten where he became influenced by Rastafari and...