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EMERGENCE OF
EXCELLENCE
CARIBBEAN EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AGENCY - CREATE
03Music - EMERGENCEOFEXCELLENCE
JASON & SARAH DASENT
STUDIO JAY RECORDING INC.
TRINIDAD
Practitioners in the creative industries in the
Caribbean are well positioned to emerge onto
the international stage with the right guidance,
partnerships and tools. This is clearly evident in
the case of the extremely gifted Jason Dasent who
masters the mixes of his creativity in the business he
calls Studio Jay.
Jason Dasent worked from a teenager to pursue his innate passion for
producing music. Affectionately known simply as Jay, the founder of
Studio Jay Recording started 20 years ago by creating jingles. He would
progress unto commercials before producing music for some of the best
artists over a wide spectrum of genres, cultivating a career that would
span multilateral roles as keyboardist, audio engineer, music and film
producer. While Dasent focuses on music, his skills as a film producer
are not wanting, and he has collaborated on films such as Sans Souci,
Tickle Me Rich and the award-winning SEIGE.
Dasent does not undertake his professional development as a solo
performance; rather, the owner and musical producer of the band
Overdrive readily shares the spotlight with wife and partner Sarah
Dasent. In fact, he was quick to point out that the concept for Studio
Jay’s defining project, Emergence, was Sarah’s idea and is assuredly
“her baby”, but the two work side-by-side in an endeavour to use the
Emergence programme to propel the region beyond the confines of our
blue Caribbean waters.
It is this commitment to seeing the propulsion of the region’s creative
talent into viable contributors to the Caribbean’s economies that
Caribbean Export shares in common with Dasent and his partner
Sarah. Understanding that for regional economic growth regional
governments must involve the creative industries as a critical part of
any economic policy, Caribbean Export has stepped forward with its
own plans to help drive the industry with a major focus on the region’s
creative entrepreneurs.
The duo seeks to create a
new perspective for the
Caribbean as a place of
business, not just for a
hol iday.