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Born in The Bahamas as Sammie Poitier, b.k.a Sammi Starr is one of the hottest Recording Artists/Producers and Community Activists to have ever come out of the Caribbean. Since age 6, Sammi was playing instruments and singing in church along with his father Rev. Oswald Poitier, a legend in his own time, founding the group Gospel Music Train and mother, Sebrena Poitier, a talented singer. His entire family is gifted.
As a young teenager, he became one of the most sought after record producers, producing hits for many local artists. With his clean baby face looks, rock hard physique, smoothe voice, island accent and tight dance moves, Sammi Starr quickly became popular with the ladies. He also became a local favorite as an actor in many local T.V. shows and theatre. He has become a star as a recording artist releasing top hits like "We Winning", and more recently, the mega hit “Good To Know You”, “I’ll Never Leave” and most recently, the mega smash “Pick Me”, which landed him on major charts in countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, Turks & Caicos and also enabled Sammi Starr to be featured at countless local shows and major events including “Reggae All-Stars 2008”, “A Night Of Love 2009 and 2010”, “Millennium Countdown” “Reggae All-Stars 2009”, “Miss Bahamas World” and most recently Sammi Starr was one of the closing acts along with Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, and Diddy at "Miami's Best of the Best 2010".
Sammi has also had many #1 songs on the popular local stations like More 94.9fm, 100jamz radio show, “Bahama Hot Ones Countdown”, and Power 104.5fm. To date, Sammi Starr has won many major talent shows including Charlotte North Carolina’s “You Got’ Vocals” and “2007 Junkanoo Song Competition” here in the Bahamas as well as starting the hot production company “Starrboy Inc”. Most recently Sammi has just started his own T.V. show “Sammi Goes To Prom” and more recently landed the cover of “Stylezine Magazine”.
He is said to be a unique blend of Marvin Gaye, Usher, Kanye West and John Legend with an Island twist and reminds many of the legend Sir. Sidney Poitier . Sammi Starr is a huge hit with the youth and has had to open more than 4 Facebook pages due to so many friends requests. He uses his influence to positively impact young people. He has done this by appearing at many high-schools, performing and speaking to the students about the importance of education and positive life styles. He is the President of the South Beach Association. He has also gotten involved in National Politics as an advocate for youth and community development. He is also a strong advocate of entertainment and music as he helps the youth to develop their musical skills and achieve their goals in music, culture and entertainment.
Q and A with the talented "Sammi Starr"
CEM: When did you know you wanted to be in the music industry?
SS:I knew I wanted to be in the music industry when as a primary school student, I first saw Micheal Jackson in the "We Are The World" Video at my uncles house
CEM: What did your family do to encourage you?
SS:My dad bought me a drum set and a keyboard and told me to learn to play all of the demos on the keyboard and he'd give me 100 for every demo I learned. My parents would encourage me to sing in church and at different school events
CEM: Do you have siblings?
SS: I have 3 sisters and 1 brother
CEM: Since you are from a talent family , were there any talent rivalry?
SS: There wasn't really any rivalry between us, our parents made sure of that....we always did different things at different times and simply ended up just supporting one another.
CEM: Who are your musical inspirations?
SS: My musical inspirations are Mostly Old School artists, Ottis Redding, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, Elton John and of course some new school artists, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Faith Evans, Jay Z, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Tank and others.
CEM: I see you have done a lot of performances both locally and internationally, but where is your dream place to perform?
SS: Oh thats an EASY one...definitely the Grammy Awards! It is my Career's Dream to perform center stage at the Grammys.
CEM: If you could go open up for any artist on tour right now who would it be?
CEM: Do you play any instruments?
SS: Yes. I play Piano, Drums and a little Guitar
CEM: Do you write your own lyrics and where do you draw inspiration?
SS: Yes I write all of my own lyrics as well as produce just about all of my tracks. I draw all of my inspiration from real life, my dreams, people and love
CEM: Do you have an hidden talent?
SS: LOL, actually yes, I'm really good at Arts and Crafts. I love making things out of just about any type of materials. I also draw pretty well.
CEM: Which famous musicians do you admire? Why?
SS: Arron Spears (Drummer) . I love the drums and to hear what he does on the drums just gives me chills. I watched his career blossom and saw him grow so much but always had such insane talent.
CEM: What are some of the challenges you face as a young artiste from the Caribbean?
SS: Definitely exposure. Now that the world wide internet exists, we all can get youtube accounts, myspace pages, facebook fan pages, tunecore, itunes, but those are free to a certain point and to gain additional exposure one would have to spend money. Most independent artists are challenged financially and that hinders their exposure.
CEM:You are a community activists, what is your platform?
SS: My Platform is definitely Youth Development and of course Entertainment and Culture. I believe that Young People shape the direction of a country and directly responsible making artists successful. Like me, Youth of a country have such talent and dreams and deserve every opportunity possible to achieve them. Also, Culture and Entertainment define a country. The Culture of a country defines that country so it has to be refined to a point as to properly represent that country.
CEM: Do you see yourself as a role model?SS: At this point, yes. It has turned out that there are alot of younger people who are aspiring to be entertainers and alot of parents that tell me how their young sons want to be just like me and they appreiciate how positive my lifestyle and music is. (I don't drink, or smoke)
CEM: What else can we expect from you?
SS: You can expect alot more production and inter-caribbean travel a few mix tapes, videos and at least one album this year (2012).
CEM: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
SS: I see myself being a Married Father with a great family and a world wide success as an entertainer/producer and community activist
CEM: What would you like to say to your fans?SS: I would like to say THANK YOU for Loving my music and loving me as a person, a good human being. I wish that you all would love me and music forever. Give me a reason to push and make great music and a great impact on todays world
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