5 Questions With Prince Judah

Style is everything to The Prince Judah Experience. The roots, rock, reggae star has mastered delivering head-turning looks on and off stage. From magnetic performances across the Caribbean and the United States to dapper appearances off-the-clock, he blends a love for retro fashion with modern masculinity. With wardrobe choices defined by bold colours and striking patterns, style is a constant in shaping his artistry. He credits his fashion designer and stylist mother, Andrea Sinclair Warner, for introducing him to—and nurturing his love of—fashion. Back home on The Rock from Florida for Reggae Month, the music tenor is diving into the celebratory slate of events. Prince Judah took a moment to chat with 5 Questions With... about fashion, new music, and his journey into film.

1. It’s brand-new creative territory with your acting debut in an upcoming film. Can you share some details on the project?

Call Her Majesty is the name of the film. It is being shot between Miami and Jamaica and the directors are Comala Remogeme and Andrew ‘Anjuval’ Crooks. Dem see me and said ‘We have a specific part for you, Prince Judah, a reggae rock star who comes and brings the people together’. I told them I was not a rock star, but they wanted me to be myself. It was a joy to be able to do that. It’s not an act for me. I told them that on set.

I am also shooting another movie with a world renowned director but can’t speak too much about it just now. What I can say about that second film is that you won’t only see me, you will also hear me.

2. How was your experience being in front of the camera?

The funny thing is that it’s different from music. I don’t really care to be on film and dem sinting (something) deh. People say if you didn’t care to be on camera, why are you a reggae rock star and in a band? I say God told me to do it– to inspire and impact people. I am following that order. When I am onstage at concerts, a lot of stuff happens, I don’t even remember because we are just in a transcendence and nirvana state. Being on film is not the same. People watch and nitpick everything.

For the second film I did, it’s very different. I definitely had to go on some confidence walks to boost my spirit. I was able to adapt by telling myself, ‘Bro, just act how you are used to when you are by yourself in your room’. ...I would consider doing more movies as long as it’s something I have done in reality or see myself doing, then it’s not really an act.

3. You always step out quite fashionably. Where did the interest in fashion originate and what’s the importance of looking fresh?

Mi mumma, mi mumma, mi queen, Andrea Sinclair Warner. A she teach the I and I everything about style. I vividly remember when I first learned the word ‘monochromatic’. I said ‘Mommy, I can’t wear all of them, they are the same colour.’ She told me ‘By the time the eye travel from the head to the toe, you won’t even realise it’s a different shade of red or black. That’s monochromatic.’ In our family, she’s known as the fashion queen, the fashionista, or the stylist goddess.

From me is a youth she style a whole heap of the family. That is literally her profession. She studied fashion design and merchandising at Harper College in Chicago.

I recall as a teenager one time, I went to the corner store in Florida where we lived and she saw what I had on... She said: ‘I don’t care where you go, when you step out of this house, you represent the whole family and you represent me’. I never had a choice really but to take fashion seriously.

4. How involved are you in designing and making your own outfits?

The whole process –from the design to actually cutting and getting the fabric... Any questions I have about fashion and design, I always go to my mom. Then, there’s another lady also who is a mother figure, Nicole Richards, who went to fashion school in Fort Lauderdale. Plus, there are my girls Luca Marie and Uma Marie at UmaLu Vintage in Miami. They are big stylists in the music and entertainment industry. They styled Vybz Kartel the other day, and are all over the place from Egypt to Argentina. That is the vibrations that kick off with that. Very hands on with everything I create.

5. Who are your style inspirations?

My fashion icons are Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crue, Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff and Peter [Tosh], full up a style too. So basically 1960s to 1980s reggae and rock and roll are my style inspiration era.

BRAWTA:

What’s new on the music front for the Prince Judah Experience in 2026?

I am releasing a dancehall song for Reggae Month. It’s called Inna Dancehall Style. I am doing it with a sound system from Jamaica, based out of Chicago, called Black Sabbath Sound System– which has no correlation to the rock band Black Sabbath, although they were inspired by them. The song is an iconic dancehall tune to let people know that real dancehall rule the place. It’s kind of taking people away from the ‘gunman ting’.

I was on a recent public relations tour in the States and Caribbean and was trying out some dancehall-flavoured songs, and the audience loved them and kept asking when I would be putting out a dancehall project. So Inna Dancehall Style is for the people.

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