Biography:

Floyd LLOYD SEIVRIGHT is a veteran fighter for the cause black music in U.K & Europe and is long established as a prolific composer, singer, producer and music publisher with hits like the mighty diamond “Sweet Lady”, potato 5’s, “Big City”, Bitty McLean’s “Here I stand” written by Justin Hinds and “Over the River” written by the same source, Jesse Jackson, “Rock Steady Party” which is from the movie “Dead Man on Campus”. His continued musical explorations has taken his compositions into the hip hop/R&B world with too versions of “foxy foxy” which a Seivright original. The song has been recorded by the “fugees” as a group and by “Pras” as a solo artist for his solo album. Floyd Lloyd is the founder of tropic entertainment and recording enterprises which is a British and U.S music, publishing and production company. The compositions in tropics own catalogue continues to be active through out the world in various media. Seivright is among the first Jamaican/ Caribbean song writers/composers to be exclusively be signed to E.M.I/K.P.M music library producing Jamaican music, skaa/rocksteady/reggae that were ultimately used in film/television. His compositions has been licensed for usage in various films including paramount’s picture “Dead Man on Campus” 20th century fox’s “Strange Days”, U.S sitcoms including the highly successful “Friends”, ‘The Bernie Mac Show, HBO’S “Real Sex”, U.K’s “Eastenders” to name only a few. Since 1996 Seivright has been collaborating with world renowned guitarist and composer Ernest Ranglin and together the have worked on the classic and innovative album “E.B at noon”, “surfing” which won South Florida/Caribbean music award for best album in 2005 The collaborations by Floyd and Mr. Ranglin has lead to a solid musical friendship and in 2000 Ranglin gave permission to tropic entertainment to re-release his acclaimed album “Ranglin roots”. The album appears today as “Ultimate Ranglin Roots” with added bonus tracks and is well received in France, U.K, U.S. Australia and Africa. Floyd and Ranglin together have several releases including “believer”, an inspired and innovative combination of songs that resist definition. It incorporates genres of funk, jazz, rock and reggae. The album is packed with original tunes that promise to deliver a lively exploration into the new evolution of the multitalented Floyd Lloyd Seivright, with great musicians such, Ernest Ranglin, Mikey Fletcher, Horse Mouth Wallace, Derrick Stewart, Glen Browne, Dean Fraser, Mikey Chung. He was born Lloyd Seivright in the hillside town called Browns Town in St. Ann, Jamaica. As a youth he attend alpha boys school that has spawned the likes of Don Drummond , Rico , Tommy McCook , Lennie Hibbert and many other famous and great Jamaican musicians. Seivright acknowledges that the love, respect, tullage, of sis. Ignatius and sis Marie Therese at Alpha had a profound effect on him on his attitude and approach to life, patience, persistence, diligence, honesty and respect. In 1969 Seivright left for the U.K to pursue a career in music and he stayed there for over 25 years establishing as singer song writer, publisher/ producer and he has spent the last 12 years in America. During his U.K years hammered out deal and dispute with giant such as E.M.I and Warner music production and worked diligently to resolve Copyright disputes for many reggae/Jamaican songwriters/musicians. He worked as an A&R manager for Trojans records in the U.K He continued working with his mentors, writing and producing with Ernest Ranglin, Derrick Morgan, Tommy McCook and the skatallites, touring and recording with Laurel Aiking, Desmond Decker and producing albums and touring with Justin hinds and Rico Rodriquez. In the seventies Seivright worked with the band Red Cloud in England. The music Seivright wrote at that time was distinctly influenced by New Orleans jazz creating a unique fusion that became a Skaa-rock -reggae. He also worked with the multicultural band “potato 5”, and they were called Floyd Lloyd and the potato 5, a ten piece Skaa band that toured throughout Europe in the eighties and became famous in its own right. He publishes composer/musicians such as Ernest Ranglin, Dean Fraser, Justin Hinds, Mike Fletcher, Cedric Brooks, Vin Gordon, Mallory Williams, Tony green, and Deon Mattis. The music of Lloyd Seivright is highly appreciated in TV, radio and films in Europe, America, and Australia just to name a few. The song “Jah Jah why” is featured at regular intervals the popular sitcom “friends” ,HBO’s “Bernie Mac”, U.K’s “Eastenders” and it is also featured in a Portuguese and Spanish film , “Rasta rootsman”, was featured in “U.K’s Gold “,BBC’s “2.4 Children”, ” U.K’s “Eastenders”. “Rocksteady party” was featured in the movie” Dead Man on Campus”.