“It makes me go la-la-la….” The hook of Ava’s first single from her first ever album, “Turned-on Underground”, tells it like it is. “Everyone’s always shocked, and wonders -- how come a Chester girl sings reggae?” Ava announces mischievously. “I know I don’t look like a person who would sing reggae – until you hear it!” Indeed, why does the voice of a conscious reggae sister emerge from this camera-ready blonde babe? Basically, The Ava Story, which is only just beginning, is already a triumph of an old Jamaican proverb – Who feels it, knows it.

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