Hot Like Fire

Trumpet player Kelley Bolduc founded Hot Like Fire during her last year at Berklee College of Music in Boston: MA in 1989. She met a student from Barbados and traveled there with him. After falling in love with Caribbean music she returned to Boston to start her own band: commencing as an eleven-piece band with a live percussionist: two singers: two guitarists: bass: keyboards: drums and a three-piece horn section performing reggae and calypso music. It’s members hailed from different Caribbean islands and America. Through the years Hot Like Fire has refined itself to a contemporary five-piece band. Current members are Errol Strength: lead vocalist from Jamaica: Kelley B.: lead vocalist: keyboards and trumpet: from Agawam: MA: Bobin Nicholson: bassist and vocalist from Jamaica: John “Redd” Lima keyboardist from Cape Verde and Tony “Drummie” Fowles: drummer from Jamaica. In the year 2000: Hot Like Fire swept the Boston Caribbean Music Awards winning “CD of the Year”: “Best Male Vocalist” and “Producer of the Year”. They also received the International World Music Award for Reggae Ambassador that year. Hot Like Fire performed Bob Marley’s “Get up Stand up” with the Alvin Ailey dancers for the Reebok Human Rights Awards held at The Shubert Theater in Boston: MA in April of 2003. In September 2003 Hot Like Fire received a nomination for Outstanding World Music Act from the 2003 Boston Music Awards. They have also received nominations in the past for Best Reggae Act in 2000 and 1996. Their new CD entitled Reggae Around the World\ will be released early 2006. Hot Like Fire has emerged as the most energetic and sought after band on the reggae music scene during the past 15 years: performing 6 nights a week during their summer season. They are well known for their reggae versions of American pop and R&B songs and perform many classic songs by Bob Marley and others. People are always dancing when Hot Like Fire is jammin’! Hot Like Fire\