Kees & Tessanne Chin collaboration

Posted: 23rd Apr 2010

Two of the most sultry, sexy and soulful voices from the Caribbean have teamed up. Kees Dieffenthaller, lead singer from KES THE BAND and the sexy songstress from Jamaica, Tessanne Chin have collaborated on a track they both wrote together, along with KC Phillips and which was subsequently produced by Precision Productions (KC Phillips and Nikholai Greene) at the Underground Studio in Jamaica. The new track is titled Loving You.

The idea for the collaboration came after hearing Tessanne’s mega hit Hideaway which took the airwaves by storm roughly two years ago. The song - a fusion of reggae with rock riffs was a style that Kes The Band has also been exploring (songs like Stalker, Runaway, and Till The Morning) and felt that working with Tess would be a perfect union.

“It took us a little while to actually reach out to her” says Kees. "After some discussions on both sides we decided the best thing would be for myself and KC Phillips to fly out to Jamaica and spend some time there”. Once in Jamaica, Kees, KC and Tess hit it off and spent a week writing the track, and also recording it. “The musicians were called in, we had the studio, it all seemed to flow”’ says KC.

After hearing the final version of the song, the duo decided that a music video would be the icing on the cake! Life Garland, a well established music video director out of LA, (who has worked with Nelly, Lil Jon, Jermaine Dupri, Pretty Ricky and Juvenile to name a few), was asked to direct. In 2004 he was nominated for the VMA”s best Rap Video for Lil Jon’s Get Low and in 2006 he won the award for Chamillionaire’s Ridin Dirty. Garland, along with a local team that included the very talented Director of Photography, Sheldon Felix (Militainment), shot the music video over a two-day period.

“The experience was phenomenal”, says Tessanne. “The production was smooth, professional and the video has a story line that we are excited to show to the world”.

There are more things to come from Kes the Band and Tessanne Chin. Kes has another video that will be released in summer along with some touring, and Tessanne is currently working on her debut album