Membership : 2016 - Present
Citizenship : Switzerland🇨🇭
Based in : Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭
Active in music since : 2014
Music type : Hip-Hop, Reggae, Dancehall & Roots
Label : Don Trotti Records / Swiss Gambia Association

Don Trotti is a deejay, beatmaker, recorder, ingeneer, artistic director, artist & tour manager in hip-hop and reggae industry since 2014.

Don Trotti is a Swiss citizenship, originaly from Italy, who grew up in the Geneva region of Switzerland. He followed all his scholarship in the Waad region. Thereafter, he joined the engineering school in the field of computer science for a sound engineer training. He is fluent in French, Italian, German, English and Thai by learning the language in these countries.

His passion for music started as a teenager. His ear was formed on American productions: Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Red Alert, Wu-Tang, Notorious BIG, Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre, Busta Rhyme and many more. His influences also stem from his mother tongue, French: NTM, IAM, Assassin, Time Bomb, Lunatic, DJ Cut Killer, DJ Dee Nasty, La Cliqua.

During his first trip to Gambia in 2015, he met the famous Gambian selecta "DJ Hans" from Legal Sound International. From their first meeting a complicity settles and they decide to collaborate on a mix tape called "The Gambia connect to the world Vo 1". The goal is to highlight Gambian reggae artists.

Meeting real success locally and in Europe. They decided to create an association in Switzerland and in Gambia under the us of “Association Suisse-Gambie. With the latter they worked in Gambia by creating a label, a recording studio and a web radio.

The association is in contact with the Gambian Ministry of Arts and Culture and Swiss culture.

Fundraising is in action in order to promote swiss & gambian reggae artists and educate youth about the true value of reggae in order to be able to export to Europe through Switzerland.

The implementation begins in September 2016 in The Gambia for the start of the project. Don Trotti started the various trainings within the Legal Sound International team. They also chose music as a means to help a school of blind young people with a weekly musical lesson in which a local blind singer "Junior SPices" participates. He also cooperates on the project.

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Membership : 2016 - Present
Citizenship : Switzerland🇨🇭
Based in : Abene, Senegal 🇸🇳
Active in music since : 2014
Music type : Reggae, Dancehall, Roots & Afro
Label : Freedom Sound / Swiss Gambia Association

Nathanael Ackermann (Natty-Nat) is a Sound Ing. Deejay, Musician, Composer, Beatmaker, Artistic Director and much more ... He was born on March 05, 1979 in Switzerland.

He grew up and studied in the countryside Geneva in Switzerland. He became interested in music and took various courses where he was introduced to music theory and the practice of instruments. He did an electronics apprenticeship at Télévision Suisse Romand which, in addition, the purely technical and maintenance side offered him the opportunity to explore many other areas such as sound recording technique, acoustics, video post-production, IT, decoration, graphics, etc. from 1998 to 1999 he participated in the program "Pince moi j’hallucine" on TSR 2 as a Reggae Columnist. Between 1994 and 98 with a group of friends he formed Original Nature a Reggae group of which he will be the vocal lead. in 1998 He participated in the creation of the Gena Festival d'Avully.

In 2004 after a few years of traveling around the world, he put down his suitcases in Casamance in the south of Senegal in a small village called Abéné. He founded FREEDOM SOUND the same year. the activities are the rental of sound systems, concert sound systems, Reggae Sound System, the organization of musical evenings and events and the training of young people in music professions. Then in the years which follow the project evolves with the construction of a concert hall, nightclub FREEDOM SOUND NIGHT-CLUB which opens its doors in January 2014.

In 2015, aware of the artistic potential of young people in the region and the lack of quality infrastructure in this area, he opened a recording studio.

In 2016, Nathanael Founds the FREEDOM SOUND RECORDS label, a Reggae and World Music label which aims to promote local artists.

Membership : 2016 - Present
Citizenship : Switzerland🇨🇭
Based in : Zurich, Switzerland🇨🇭
Active in music since : 2006
Music type : Reggae, Dancehall & Roots
Label : One Camp

Elia Gunnar Salomon, known as Elijah, was born on August 20, 1986, as son of an Italian father and a Swiss-Norwegian mother. He is deeply rooted in his hometown Zurich, and up to today, the multicultural city is the source of his music and inspiration.

Elijah is a multilingual singer and songwriter with songs in Swiss German, English, Jamaican Patois, Spanish and French he represents a culture of co-existence without boundaries based on language, religion or nationality.

Elijah also breaks down the traditional boundaries as far as his musical style is concerned. While his music has its origins in roots reggae, he has recently complemented and refined it with dub, bossa nova, rap and blues elements. This is a welcome change for him as multi-instrumentalist who, apart from singing, also plays the flute, the akete drum and the guitar. His musical versatility manifests itself in the vibrant and organic sounds and rhythms of his new album “Eat Ripe Fruit”.

Inspired by different cultures, languages and rhythms, Elijah lived in Jamaica, Senegal and Switzerland during the next three years, working on the creation and production of new music.

Building on the success of his debut album, Elijah released his second album “Eat Ripe Fruit” in 2014. The album was released in Switzerland via the label “One Camp” that he had founded in the same year.

The single “Love is in Danger” feat. Big Zay & Baye Bass that is featured on “Eat Ripe Fruit” will be released in August 2015 and accompanied by a music video produced in Senegal.

In February 2016, a dub remix of the album “Eat Ripe Fruit” will be released under the title “Dub Ripe Fruit”. The eight songs were arranged in London in collaboration with the Jamaican band Raging Fyah and Joe Ariwa, the son of dub and reggae producer Mad Professor. They will be available on a two-disc deluxe version of Elijah’s second album featuring both “Eat Ripe Fruit” and “Dub Ripe Fruit”

Membership : 2016 - Present
Citizenship : Spain 🇪🇸
Based in : Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭
Active in music since : 1988
Music type : Reggae, Dancehall, Roots, Afro & Hip-Hop
Label : Swiss Gambia Association

A true veteran of the Geneva scene, DJ POSTMAN has been active on the scene since 1988! Great specialist in Jamaican music, he has already shared the stage with a large number of international artists & Sound System such as Shabba Ranks, Beenie Man, Ninja Man, Stone Love, David Rodigan & the list goes on !! But above all, he is passionate about music in general and an outstanding collector!

This motto: '' Good Music for Good People '' perfectly sums up his selections which easily go from Hip Hop to Dancehall, from Funk to Disco to the delight of fans of Black music.

Membership : 2017 - Present
Citizenship : Switzerland🇨🇭
Based in : Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭
Active in music since : 2005
Music type : Hip-Hop & Dancehall
Label : Swiss Gambia Association

Having studied at the Geneva Conservatory of Music as a percussionist, DJ TOOTS, endowed with a solid musical background, had no trouble swapping his instrument for turntables and developing his talent for "scratching".

Active since 2005 as a DJ, he multiplies performances and collaborations, and in 2007 found himself spending his summer recording the live medley of the Puppetmastaz first album.

Operating since 2008 for the Rootscore association based in Geneva, he is one of the 2 official DJs of the Inglourious Bastardz and of the groups S’1drom, L’1Solence and for MC Muchach.