“My interview with Mr. Ronnie Butler was a year in the making. I had the opportunity to have met him at Sandy Port in August 2009, hanging out at what was then the Oyster Bar. I had gone out to celebrate with some friends and listen to some jazz when in walked Mr. Butler. That same night he performed, after which I gave him my business card and got his contact and promised that at some point I wanted to interview him for my magazine. So almost an entire year later, I was sitting in his living room and having a conversation. I took my girlfriend Suzette along who was excited to meet the man himself. A candid person, Ronnie Butler spoke freely about his music, his life, about the decline of morals, an appreciation for culture, and the plight of the Bahamian musician.”

“Ronnie Butler loved music from his early childhood. He started out playing the maracas at the age of sixteen with a neighbor from Trinidad by the name of Alexander who played the Hawaiian guitar and Nattie, one of the premier conga drummers in The Bahamas. His job as a construction worker did not get in the way of him taking his first job playing music at the Carlton House Hotel on East Street.”