Jimmy Spice Curry

Jimmy Curry (aka Jimmy Spice Curry, Commander Spice) is an entertainment producer, human rights activist and writer with credits in various ventures. Jimmy Spice Curry has worked with Grammy Award winning Rock artist Lenny Kravitz, H. Small (Bahamen), Olympic gold medalist Debbie Ferguson, Grammy Award winner Preston Vismale Jesse D of the Force MDs, and produced for various fortune 500 firms, etc. His latest project is the book: Great Truth Poems.
Early in 1983, Curry started experimenting with mixing music using old cassette decks. During his early years he interacted with Master OC (of the Fearless Four), Pumpkim (Pumpkin and his all stars), Strafe, Jazzy J, Grandmaster Flash, Master Ace, Crash Crew, and others. Spice was often not a part of a crew, but a friend or associate of one of the members of a crew, or he was meeting with a crew member to see about doing some entertainment business together, or just hanging out at a recording session. After his early experiments with mixing and lyric writing, he then migrated to using drum machines and created his first record releases. Jimmy Spice Curry got permission from the Broken Bird Music to remake the classic Crosby Stills & Nash & Young song "Teach Your Children", which lead to a record deal at Sugar Hill Records and also had a brief stint there as a producer working directly with Sylvia Robinson and Joe Robinson, the company's founders. On the song "Teach Your Children" he brought in award winning music engineer , Producer Larry Joseph Force MDs, and underground legendary DJs Teddy Ted and Special K. He also worked with a then young vocalist named "Tanganyika" who released a song involved in the Roxanne Wars. In addition to winning an international "song-of-the-year" award, he has participated in films that won film festival awards including one for his minor crew role in the movie short "The Saint of the Zuiderzee". Early in the career of award winning producer and performer , Jimmy Curry recorded one love song at Teddy's Harlem, New York home studio. Teddy Riley has produced Michael Jackson and numerous other celebrities.
Jimmy Spice Curry made history by writing, directing and editing the first Bahamian movie "Filthy Rich Gangster", which premiered at the Shirley Street Theater in Nassau, Bahamas in August, 1996. He also produced and funded the first Bahamian Celebrity games. His record "Fighting To Survive", was the first Bahamian Hip Hop record, and another release "Jammin To The Beat" was the first Bahamian song and record to mix the sub-genres of Junkanoo and Hip Hop. The movie Gun Lordz, in an independent film that he produced, wrote, directed and edited, and he subsequently signed a short promotion deal with the New York radio station Hot 97 (WQHT). He was a producer and performer at the world's first Rap Auction, was A&R Director for former record label Foot Print Records, where he met and developed a business relationship with legendary singer Jesse D of the Force MDs. He has also worked with Universal Zulu Nation legend Jazzy Jay, Bunny Sigler, Barney Conway, Sylvia Robinson, Lovebug Starski and others.
In the radio arena, he was the production director for Love-FM, has produced a segment for WBAI that featured Mighty Sparrow and Inner Circle and produced radio shows for ZNS-1 that featured Bahamen and other celebrities. His television production and background includes writing, producing, and editing several shows for Manhattan Neighborhood Network, etc. He was hired by Marriott International to produce a special promotional video through one of their Miami, Florida executive offices. On the educational front he was Vice Principal of City School, teacher-of-the-year, Tech-9 instructor at Dwight-Englewood private school (Englewood, NJ), taught at the Career Center, and other schools. During the year 2007, he focused much of his energy creating, producing and promoting the in an effort to help give recognition to the many talented indigenous, native and other talents that traditional media do not include in radio rotation and TV episodes, etc. Therefore, he was founder and Executive Producer of the Genius Globe Awards, which had participants from India, Japan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Canada, America, Ghana, Pakistan, etc. The event culminated with performances and an awards presentation held in New York City. During 2007, Jimmy Spice Curry also organized a conference for parents concerned with the negative state of public schools in New York, the event was held at Nola Studios (in New York City). Jimmy Curry is also a poet with over 300 poems and several on album and movie releases.
His additional productions include: Heat Beats Vol 1, and Poetry Classics To Funky Beats, which features some of history's greatest poems. Included on the poetry compilation are poems by William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Kabir, Rudyard Kipling, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Foster, Elizabeth Browning, James Weldon Johnson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allan Poe and other luminaries. A novel about the life of Jimmy Spice Curry, and a documentary are being produced and he is completing several projects including a Reggae album, a Salsa album, a kids Pop/Hip Hop album and new film ventures.
Curry was born James Curry to Jewel Bowe-Curry and Frederick Curry, and is the older brother of spoken word champion "Julian Curry" whose an artist in his own right with appearances on Def Poetry, in Fortune Magazine and other media. Due to the separation of his Jehovah's Witness parents he lived in many parts of the world. While living with different parents, he attended Mt. Thompson School, George Town School, Thatch Berry Primary, Uriah McPhee Primary, SC McPherson (Graduated with BJCs) , CI Gibson, Yellow Elder Primary School, Oakes Field Primary, Government High School (GHS, graduated with High School diploma and GCEs) and other schools and awards. In England Jimmy Curry attended Meols Cop High School (Southport, England), and in America various schools including the Center For Media Arts (Graduated with Communications Management certificate), Brandeis High School (2nd High school diploma) Career Center, HC College (graduated with Degree), La Guardia Community College (Certification), and other business, production and arts schools. On the athletic front, in 1983, he was the national high school champion in the walk race. He is also a martial artist who has various under belts, and has competed in , Judo, Four Winds Kung Fu, and other martial arts styles. In 1998, he competed and won 3rd place in the "Tri-state Open Karate Championships" in the purple belt division. During the same year he competed in "Al Gotay's 9th Annual All Gojuryu Karate Championships" and placed 1st in his division. Jimmy Spice had legendary martial artist Ron Van Clief as a martial arts coordinator on Curry's movie short "Gun Lordz", the anti-gun violence production.

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