Singer Or­lan­do Oc­tave is on a high, and it's not mu­si­cal. His very own line of la­tex con­doms, called Play Wit It, will be launched to­day at La Casa de Ibiza in Port-of-Spain. The 22-year-old Rio Claro na­tive says it gives him great joy to be a part of an ini­tia­tive that he knows will help youths, es­pe­cial­ly those be­tween the ages of 14 and 24. "We are los­ing lives through sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted dis­eases. STDs have no face and every­body should re­al­ly sup­port this," said the young artiste. The artiste be­came pop­u­lar in T&T in 2007, when he re­leased the sin­gle, Dark­ie, and has been work­ing with a Cana­di­an/US-based record com­pa­ny. Hav­ing re­turned from Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day af­ter a record­ing ses­sion at dance­hall singer De­mar­co's stu­dio, Oc­tave says he hopes the more ma­ture de­mo­graph­ic will sup­port this ini­tia­tive.

He says his per­son­al hope is for the youths of T&T and the Caribbean to un­der­stand the im­por­tance of prac­tis­ing safe sex. The con­dom line is the be­gin­ning of a num­ber of projects young Oc­tave is un­der­tak­ing-projects aimed at es­tab­lish­ing his brand as a glob­al en­ter­tain­er. In mid-May, he will re­lease his sin­gle Dis­con­nect­ed, which comes com­plete with a video that was shot in Toron­to, Cana­da. He as­sures fans of the Mil­lion­aire Fam­i­ly that he will re­main a mem­ber of the group and is mere­ly ex­plor­ing so­lo projects with the help of the Mil­lion­aires Records team. "The Mil­lion­aire Fam­i­ly is foun­da­tion. That is sol­id," he said. The Play Wit It line of con­doms will be dis­trib­uted across T&T, the Caribbean, Cana­da and the US, said Mil­lion­aires Records CEO, Richard Hope. The con­doms will come in three dis­tinct flavours-cher­ry, vanil­la and black­ber­ry. "These are qual­i­ty, spe­cial­ty con­doms," said Oc­tave.