Lovers Rock, Roots Reggae & Experimental Hip-Hop

from San Diego, CA

Trevy James is a unique roots & Rastafari influenced reggae voice from a city known more nowadays for the pop leaning, beachy “Cali Roots” style. He has spent the past 7 years exploring new ways of blending his primary genre influences of reggae, R&B, and hip-hop. The ensuing sound can best be described as living somewhere in the cross section between Sade, Chronixx, and OutKast.  

Trevy, named after the late Boom Shaka front man Ras Trevy Felix, was born & raised in San Diego, CA. There, he grew up surrounded by reggae music thanks to his father’s influence as he performed & toured on keyboards with acts like Mystic Revealers, Pau Hana, & BloodFiyah Angels. Trevy followed right into the family business and became a formidable keyboard player, studying at Berklee College of Music, playing keys in the legendary Berklee Bob Marley Ensemble & earning a degree in piano performance & songwriting. By 2017, back home in San Diego, he established Ital Man Music and began independently releasing original recordings, culminating in the release of the 2020 LP “Love In Dread Times.” The subsequent years saw him step back from solo production to form the 6-piece soul/hip-hop band Heaping Teaspoon and join long-standing San Diego reggae staples Psydecar & Southtown Generals on keyboards & vocals.

Entering 2024, Trevy has a renewed focus on lending his unique sound to conscious, upfull roots music. His latest recordings offer a contemporary take on Lover’s Rock, bringing in soul, R&B, and reggae elements. He is currently in the studio creating his 2nd full-length record, which is prefaced by the 2-song collection entitled “Some Letters Are Meant To Be Burned.” Highlighted by the single “Snapshots” (featuring Psydecar’s Tim Pacheco), this project figuratively burns expressions from a painful past personal relationship to make room for true love, passion and personal growth as a man and artist.