User:Hemsleymorrisjr

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Hemsley Ainsley Coleman Morris (Jr.) Also known as Benzly Hype (born September 20, 1976) is a Jamaican Musician, Writer, Actor and Film and Music Producer. Morris is the son of noted Jamaican musician and vocalist Hemsley Morris. Morris was mostly self-taught but had many different classical teachers playing instruments like the piano and guitar since the age of 4. Morris also studied classical piano at the Edna Manley College in his mid-teens. Young Morris began learning the art of professional sound recording at the Celestial Sounds Recording Studio during his off time from school and La Benz. Morris as Benzly Hype has been a member of the Innocent Kru quartet and has led the group since the early 1990s. The quartet recorded songs with Grammy-winning producers Sly and Robbie on their Taxi Records label, some of the songs released were Impossible Train, Turn It Up, Not Guilty, Wogga Wogga, and Mambo Jambo. Since then Morris has been writing and producing songs for artists such as Beenie Man, Merciless, Vybz Kartel, Tanya Stephens, Gappy Ranks, Munga Honorable and Cecile and others. Benzly Hype has collaborated with Artist Spragga Benz, Yan Kings, Matt Petrone, the song was produced by Blanco y Negro Record, and Sony producer Alex Guesta. He also collaborated as a Solo Artist with three times Grammy-winning producers Sly and Robbie and two times Grammy winners Steelie and Clevie. In early 2009 Morris’s popularity increased dramatically when he created the Jamaican television comedy series Me and Mi Kru which was based on his life in the music industry. The series has been aired in Africa on M-net in the U.S on Comcast Network in the UK on ABN/ Skynet network, in Canada on FEVA TV and the rest of the Caribbean on Flow Network. He is the lead writer and star of the show, also owns the production company that produces it Kru Media Ltd. Benzly Hype has also appeared in speaking roles in the films One Love as himself and Third World Cop.