Charmaine Blackman has been singing for 21 years professionally. Her versatility, superb range and exceptional talent have helped to establish her as a leading voice in the field of music in Guyana. In an era when Guyana’s music had sunken to its lowest ever, Charmaine must be considered a pioneering voice in our nation’s musical rebirth.
Charmaine has sang with many of Guyana’s top bands and her voice and features have been associated on Radio and Television commercials for some of the major companies in Guyana, the likes of Mings Products & Services Ltd, Courts (Guyana) Ltd, Wireless Connections, Guyana Lottery Company, Banks DIH Ltd, Caricom, Demerara Distillers Ltd, Geddes Grant (Guyana) Ltd, UNESCO, Guyenterprise and Creative Advertising Agencies and more recently The Mayor & Councillors of the City of Georgetown, just to name a few. She was also contracted to work on assignments for the Guyana Government periodically.
Charmaine has appeared on stage with the cream of top Caribbean and International Artistes that include, Eddie Grant, Shabba Ranks, Buju Bantan, Junior Gong Marley, Allison Hinds and Square one, Krosfayah, Gregory Issacs, Beres Hammond, Machael Montano and Xtatic, Shadow, Calypso Rose, Boris Gardiner, Super Blue, Lord Kitchener, Dobby Dobson, Manuel Obregon, Dub City Renegades and others.
Touted as Guyana’s most recorded voice with over 300 recordings featured on Advertisements and 13 CDs ranging from Ballads to Hip-Hop, Disco, Reggae, Soca and Rock, 7 of which are Solo Albums. She was crowned Road March Queen in 1997 in Guyana’s Mashramani Celebrations with a song entitled “Soca Music” and has the most popular tracks on the Yoruba Singers Reggae Albums Consciousness and Consciousness 2 that were listed on the top 20 most played Reggae Albums for the years 1999 and 2003 respectively on the US Island of Guam’s KPRG 89.3FM plus in 1993, two of her tracks contributed majority to the album Consciousness 2 reaching No 1 on the same Island. She has to her credit over 45 music videos some of which was featured regularly on the CMC’s program ‘Riddim Express’ reaching over 22 countries of the Caribbean, CVN International Music Television, City TV’s Much Music Television and Rogers Caribbean Channel – Canada, Radio-TV Africana, Asian TV, Boston’s Riddim & Soul BNN-TV in the USA, STVS Suriname and Ben Television London. This extensive airplay has cause Charmaine to become the most talked about home-based artiste.
Charmaine Blackman is a fine cultural ambassador touring several countries and has attended Toronto’s Caribbean Festival “Caribana”, Ottawa’s “Urban Music Festival” and “Labor Day” in New York, “Rainforest Air Music Festival” in Costa Rica among others, but her biggest musical experience has been the Ringbang Millennium Concert in Tobago that was televised by the BBC to 2.5 billion viewers around the world. Charmaine has moved to another level by being the co-executive producer for the locally produced movies The Will To Live released in 2005,Right Choices released in 2007 and King of Drums released in October 2009, Deception released in 2010, The Encounter 2011 and Where Is Everybody released in 2012 and The Unbelieving Mom, just released all of which she is featured.
Charmaine was contracted to work on the Golden Princess & Celebrity Cruise Lines and was very impressive as she belted out songs from the 50’s to the new millennium showing great range, versatility, power and creative choreography. She was nicknamed ‘Tina’ by every single cruise during her thirteen week stint.
Over the last 2 seasons Charmaine has been hired by The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company Ltd, to be a Judge in one of their talent search programs “The GT&T Guyana Star, Jingle & Song Competition”which is the largest talent search programs in the country and she has been an asset bringing with her years of experience and fashion.
