by Mel Cooke, Freelance Writer

Peter, of the group Morgan Heritage, encourages the newlyweds, Beenie Man and D'Angel during their performance. - Nathaniel Stewart photos

As Brushy One String put it on Saturday night, the 2006 Beenie Man Summer Sizzle was the deejay's "birthday party, wedding, everything inna one".

And some time after Maya had led the thousands who attended the marathon concert at the JAMALCO Sports Club, Halse Hall, Clarendon, in singing happy birthday to Beenie Man, Morgan Heritage sang a song of their own directly to the deejay and wife D'Angel.

Gramps came from behind the keyboards to lead She's Still Loving Me, after the band had gone through Don't Haffi Dread and Down By The River, among other songs. He soon personalised the popular song, his deep voice strong and the band played low as Gramps sang "Beenie she's still loving you. Don't you make her cry, sweet Angel/Don't cause her any sleepless nights/Beenie Man, asking you to make it right".

"Ladies do you agree?" he asked and the screams indicated yes.

"She's your one and only/Angel ain't going nowhere," he continued and the cheers got louder as D'Angel and Beenie Man walked on stage. "She's got to be your only lady," Gramps sang and Beenie Man, smiling, rubbed D'Angel's stomach. Then Gramps sang "Angel are you going anywhere?" and she shook her head, no. When he asked the crowd to "give it up for Mr. Beenie Man and Ms. Angel, the applause was loud and strong.

Then as a new day dawned on Summer Sizzle 2006, Josey Wales came on stage with Kingston Hot. "Congrats to Beenie Man and his whole love life. This is a new song. I do not mean to cause any feelings," he said to introduce Love Triangle.

With that, Josey Wales started a lyric about Bounty Killer calling him from Miami and asking "do you think it is right/for the Doctor tek me Angel an' sey is his wife?" To that Josey said he replied "Bounty me a bad man mi nuh live matey life" and a pull up and restart was required. However, although most persons listened to the lyrics, a relatively few number of persons at the rear started to give the handclap treatment. Still, when Josey Wales deejayed that he watches his woman so closely that "me walk roun' de house wid a big flashlight/an' if a pin drop gunshot a go bite" there was another forward.

And there was still another explosion of applause the third time around when Josey Wales deejayed that he told Bounty Killer on the phone "before yu heng up it look like baby deh bout too/mi pass Beenie Man whe day uptown shoppn/a buy pampers an' nipple bottle".