“I was in jail and I had a dream I was flying over all these houses, me and my mother. She was picking out houses. When I got out of jail, the first thing I bought was a car for me and a house for her.†- SNOW
A decade ago, Darrin O'Brien entered prison a troubled young thug and left an international recording star. It was the kind of story a Hollywood screenwriter could hardly have topped, a nigh impossible yet classic tale of uncanny timing and fortune. But it was all very real. And it was exactly the kind of cyclone experience that could have left a youthful talent like O'Brien, better known to the world as SNOW, chewed up in its wake. It didn't.
Ten years later, SNOW is at the top of his creative game with TWO HANDS CLAPPING, his fifth and most ambitious musical statement yet. Delivering on the instant appeal of his early hits like “Informer†and “Girl I've Been Hurtâ€, TWO HANDS CLAPPING finds SNOW mastering the dancehall reggae he's best known for, while introducing to the music new levels of pop and R&B melody that make for a sturdy offering from start-to-finish. It's an album that'll get dancefloors bumping and lovers grooving