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Shystie
From Grime Wikipedia
Chanelle Calica (born 25 December 1982 in Hackney, London), also known as Shystie, is a British female rapper-songwriter and actress. Her mother was born and raised in Barbados and her father born and raised in Grenada making her heritage West-Indian. Shystie's started gaining fame with her white label response to Dizzee Rascal's "I Luv U" and a tour with Basement Jaxx and The Streets which led to her being scooped up by major label Universal, Polydor. She also is the leading actress in the television series Dubplate Drama.
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Debut album Diamond In The Dirt
Shystie's debut album, Diamond In The Dirt was released in the UK Only under record label Polydor, Universal.
The record consists of 15 tracks including bonus tracks all written by herself (aside from collborations where other artist wrote their own lyrics), She named her album this title as she felt the what she was doing was different and stood out amongst the rest.
This went on to sell 55,000 copies across the UK, Shystie's first single was 'ONE WISH' and the B-Side was a 'One Wish Remix' produced by Terror Danja which featured Kano and entered the charts at 40, having no main stream radio or music channels support aside Channel U and MTV Base.
Her second single was 'MAKE IT EASY' and the b-side was 'JUICED' unfortunately all major record stores did not get copies of this single in time during its week of release leaving it to chart poorly, but regardless of this Shystie was still nominated for 'Best Newcomer' at the MOBO awards.
Video game Juiced
In 2004 to 2005 Shystie spent a lot of her time performing in and out of the country, touring across America, Germany, Brazil, Chile and Argentina, promoting her new album and showcasing her home town London talents all over and also appeared on the front of 8 front covers of newspapers/magazines.
Shystie was also the first artist in the UK to have her own character named 'Shystie' to be featured in a computer game called 'JUICED' put out by a universal company named 'Acclaim Games' which was released across the world on the playstation 2 and xbox platforms. She also did a track entitled 'Juiced' which was featured on the games soundtrack and her album, which she also shot a video for.
Dubplate Drama
Manager Justin Stennett came up with an idea for Shystie to front her own Interactive TV Series called Dubplate Drama, where Shystie plays the leading role of 'Dionne', an aspiring female emcee trying to make it in the music world but often facing a lot of trials and tribulations, she will meet people that can help her along her way and people who will hold her back and its up to the viewers to put themself in her shoes and decide her fate.
The viewers could then decide the outcome of show given two options a or b and the most voted would be aired on TV the following week. Working on the idea for almost a year, in July 2005 they shot the pilot with a production company called 'Road Mullet' and the script was written by Luke Hyams. After showcasing the pilot to several terrestrial TV channels it was a success and they went on to receive full backing from Livity, Channel 4, MTV, MTV Base, PSP and 3Mobile to show the (6 part episode lasted 12 and half minutes each) on all these outlets and was aired on 11 November 2005, showing 17 times a week over a 6 week period and received 3.3million Viewers. When the series finished, MTV and Channel 4 then showed all 6 episodes back to back as a film which showed 20 times over December 2005 to February 2006.
What sets this series apart from any other is the fact that Dubplate Drama is the world’s first viewer-led interactive drama, letting viewers decide what happens next by either texting or visiting the website to vote. The series regularly had a 10% share of the total TV audience beating both BBC1 and ITV in the same time slot. The sole heart of the series is the music, which featured cameo performances from the cream of the UK's scene including Ms Dynamite and So Solid Crew.
'Dubplate Drama' was also nominated for the BROADCASTING PRESS GUILD TV & RADIO AWARDS in 2006.
Dubplate Drama – The Mix Tape Volume 1 showcases musical highlights from the 6 part series as well as 35 tracks from the most talented acts on the UK music scene.
Dubplate Drama 2
In February 2007, Shystie started filming for Dubplate Drama 2 where again she played the lead role, 'Dionne 'which runs for half an hour (per episode) and is now a 12 part series instead of its previous 6 part. It started showing on Channel 4, MTV, MTV Base, and all mobile phone networks plus many more and is pencilled in to air on all platforms from 18 September 2007. The series featured old cast members and new and also many cameo appearances from well-known UK artist. The script again written by Luke Hyams, executive producer Justin Stennett (Shystie's Manager) and Production company, Amateur hour. Dubplate Drama 2 Trailer 2007
Second Album
Throughout late 2006 and early 2007 Shystie has been touring Europe, Sweden, Stockholm, Denmark, Germany, France all in means of promoting new cuts off her new album set for release mid 2008.
Features
External Links
- Official website
- Dubplate Drama
- Temporary Forum
- Shystie at MySpace
- Shystie at Internet Movie Database
