Ishmael Kweku Yuri known professionally as Dream Jay is a Ghanaian record producer and a DJ.
Dream Jay was introduced to beat making by a friend who used to practice on mobile studio equipments. From there, Dream Jay started practicing on his own by moving to and from studios. As at 2012, he started playing his own beats and demos.
In 2014 he became the in-house producer for Mingle Studios where dancehall act Episode chose him to be his in-house producer. He has produced a number of songs for Episode including: “Enkasa” and the big hit “Avatar” which featured Rudebwoy Ranking and got nominated in the Reggae Dancehall Song of the Year category at the 2015 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards .
In 2016 Dream Jay solely produced Episode’s “Spar Junkiez” album which featured international acts like Chavaungh (Jamaica ), Kerwin Prescott (Trinidad), Mr. Eazi (Nigeria) and others.
Dream Jay then produced M.Anifest’s “GodMC” track which won hip-hop song of the year at the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
In February 2017, Dream Jay went for a mastering course in South Africa.
INSPIRATION
Internationally , Ryan Leslie, Dr. Dre, Timbaland & Boi-1da, Locally, Killbeatz, Mobeat, Sarz & Legendary beatz.