Christopher Ellis, Bay-C team up with B+ for new video

Ghetto Youths International artiste Christopher Ellis and Bay-C of TOK have tapped B+ (aka Brian Cross) of the Los Angeles-based Mochilla Production Company to create the video for their new single Don't Change Your Number.

The single is a catchy upbeat song with some do-whop and a baseline synonymous with dancehall. The single, Don't Change Your Number, is quite unique as it crosses a variety of catchy upbeat sounds, rocking melodies and superb vocals of Christopher Ellis (son of Alton Ellis) and TOK's Bay-C.

According to Ellis, the production of the single was a phenomenal experience that naturally came together. "At Tuff Gong studio, I was humming a melody and Damian Marley told me to keep that melody. Next, I just sang don't change your number, and Damian said keep that. From there we spent all night writing the song and Maxi Priest was there as well. He has some lines in the song along with me and Damian. We did a demo tape in Jamaica and took it back to Miami and voiced it," he explained.

A seasoned director, B+, who shot Damian Marley's riveting Affairs of the Heart video, wrapped up the video shoot in Jamaica recently. The video, which was shot in one day, is scheduled for release in December 2012. The project, shot mainly in Port Royal, captures a story of migration quite popular in the '60s and tells a love story in that era.

Set in 1968, a young woman is destined for England via a ship. She awakes and her departure from her love interest, Ellis, is so hurtful she doesn't wake him. She just leaves and gets into cab driven by Bay-C. Ellis wakes up and she is gone. He jumps on his little Honda 50, originally ridden by Gregory Isaacs, and he goes off chasing her. Bay-C, the cab driver drops off the girl and is so affected by her story, he does not take her money. It's such a painful thing. Ellis arrives to where she would catch her boat but she is already gone. Ellis is crushed.

Bay-C believes the single, coupled with what is shaping up to be a creative and artistic video, will be a successful project. "Based on the Affairs of the Heart video, I was impressed with B+'s work. The details in the video make it special. The newspaper we used is a paper from 1968. The vehicle is like a 50-year-old vehicle that we are driving. They went out on a limb to get the detail to bring off the video the right way. I hope the viewers like it."