Aba A Luke

Ja­maican fe­male sen­sa­tion, Spice, has teamed up with in­ter­na­tion­al hip-hop trend­set­ter Mis­sy El­liot on a track called Fun. Spice ex­plained that the song came to be af­ter Sta­cy Chung, the CEO of her new man­age­ment team, Movers and Shak­ers, sent the track to a mem­ber of El­liot's team who en­sured that she heard it. She said Mis­sy im­me­di­ate­ly took a lik­ing to the Equinoxx pro­duced track, on the Wash Bel­ly rid­dim, and de­cid­ed to jump on it, re­sult­ing in a song that's get­ting the at­ten­tion of DJs across the Caribbean and over­seas. Spice, whose re­al name is Grace Hamil­ton, has been hard at work. From com­mit­ting to stu­dio ses­sions, at­tend­ing video shoots and even fly­ing to the US as a spe­cial guest at Mis­sy's birth­day par­ty, she's been do­ing her thing and is guar­an­tee­ing fans that she's not about to stop. "I per­formed on stage with Tri­na at Mis­sy's birth­day par­ty. I was in­vit­ed as a spe­cial guest. It was a great ho­n­our for me and of course there are oth­er plans for us to meet up to pro­mote the track," she con­firmed.

Last Fri­day, Spice was sched­uled to leave for the US to ho­n­our tour­ing com­mit­ments with VP Records. She's set to per­form in Con­necti­cut, where she guar­an­tees that fans will hear the new track, Fun, live for the first time. Among the oth­er projects be­ing at­tend­ed to by the singer and en­tre­pre­neur is an African-in­spired sin­gle she will be re­leas­ing very soon called Hot Pat­ty. "The video should be out some­time soon and I have two oth­er tracks to come af­ter that and an­oth­er video to be shot. I'm just work­ing hard now, get­ting those sin­gles out," she said ex­cit­ed­ly. Spice, who gave dance­hall mu­sic lovers Romp­ing Shop, fol­lowed by Jim Screechie in re­cent years, said she be­lieved her style was tru­ly unique, adding that wher­ev­er she was seen, even if peo­ple didn't know who she was, they of­ten want­ed to know. "I am very dif­fer­ent. I am very straight­for­ward and I stand out," she ex­plained. The own­er of a pop­u­lar cloth­ing bou­tique in Ja­maica, Spice said Spicy Cou­ture in the parish of St An­drew, con­tin­ued to sat­is­fy clients, of­fer­ing se­lect pieces that can be found nowhere else on the is­land. "The store's do­ing well. The cus­tomers are hap­py that the store is open and they can al­ways come to find what they re­al­ly want," she said.

With hopes of col­lab­o­rat­ing some­day with T&T-born in­ter­na­tion­al record­ing artiste, Nic­ki Mi­naj, Spice con­tin­ues to de­liv­er, as­sur­ing fans that she's not about to stop. On Au­gust 13, she'll host her birth­day par­ty in Ja­maica. She ex­plained that while her birth­day was re­al­ly on Au­gust 6, In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions on the is­land of­ten took prece­dence and she'll cel­e­brate one week lat­er. She called on fans to fol­low­er her on Twit­ter @Spice­Of­fi­cial, to know of all that's hap­pen­ing in her world of mu­sic and en­ter­tain­ment.