Born and raise on the caribbean island of DOMINICA in the ghetto area of the LAYOU village,KERNEL BENZ STEVENS a.k.a MR GWADA is undoubtedly a rising star.coming from a christian home benz was first exposed to the music artform through his church gospel band.he later on develop a passion for reggae music .He claims his greatest Influences were Bob Marley and the Wailers,Jeff Joseph of Grammacks, Buju Banton, ,Gordon Henderson,Burnin Spear and also his own native born reggae superstar Nasio Fontaine.In 1998 olbenz release his first single "BRAINWASH" folowed by a music video which very much launch his music career.Olbenz then release his first ever album entitled "JUDGMENT" which took over the radio air waves. Soon after came the follow up album "LOOK TO AFRICA" which featured hit songs like MY HOME,VEX,BAD TIMES and KEEP IT BURNIN. In the year 2002 benz release his international hit song "NO NEED NO GUN"on the french dancehall compilation SAN KOMBIN .Known for his high energy perfomances and his abilty to sing in french and creole, Benz definetly brings something unique to the music industry.He is also known for song such as NEED U GIRL, WHITOUT YOU,GO GETY MY GUN,LAVIE and KA YO VEH amongst others.Benz has performed internationally alongside top french and and english artist such as ADMIRAL T, MR.DALY, JEFFJOSEPH,DOMINIQUE COCO,KASSAV,SIZZLA,TURBULENCE,BOUNTY KILLA and others.In 2007 he appeared on the jamaican reggae compilation "SOULJAH RIDDIM" with a song entitled CALL ON JAH which also featured top jamaican artists such as LUTAN FAYAH,LOUIE CULTURE,TURBULENCE and others. Presently Benz has team up with one of Dominicas top musicand video producer JOSEPH JA FOXX ROYER to form the BLAKKINGZ music label.The label is responsible for producing the first ever Dominican music video(RED KLINIC MEDLEY)to be televised internationally onTEMPO TV. http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_4209217. video also features leading artists as MR BENJI,SKINNY BANTON,AIMA,JA FOXX,KING DICE and more........ BENZ is very concious of his black history and life itself and uses his Music to highlight their importance.also added to his discology are ALBUMS such as GHETTODREAD,UNDERGROUND HITS and the latest french release Hit album" PA PED TET AW" (DOH LOOZE UR HEAD),and his new hit bouyon self entitled album "GWADA". Olbenz contiues to prove himself as a force in the reggae dancehall industry and is definetly an ambassador for his country overseas. HAVE NO FEAR MR.GWADA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for more info on olbenz check out. www.myspace.com/olbenzmuzic www.myspace.com/olbenz2008 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.