'A musical connection evolved into love' is how the music duo, Marie 'Bad Gyal Marie' Sano and Rohan 'Little Shabba' Henry of Notorious International sound, described their soulful bond. The Japan-born selector, Bad Gyal Marie, was struck by love when her juggling styles - and eyes - met those of Little Shabba. "It was music at first sight," Little Shabba said with a laugh.
"I know her as a deejay enuh, a inna a party mi actually meet her playing as a deejay. We have love still enuh but tru wi love di same thing, music, suh wi connect like a friend, brethren, parrie, like a soulmate ting. If me think about 'A' she think about 'B' suh wi connect together," he said.
Bad Gyal Marie said that their "love connection is more musically". "You know with me coming from Japan and him living in Maxfield, Kingston 13, it's kinda curious because we just think same way. So what we think about music, what we feel about our career, it just connect," she said.
She admitted that she was scared when she first visited Little Shabba's home town. "When first I went to Maxfield, I could not come out from car," she laughed as she reminisced. "I know it's a ghetto and I don't really know nobody so I just 'fraid to come out from car.
But [then] he introduced his friends and families and I love everybody. I just feel vibes [and] love from everybody; especially from [his] sisters and mother and all addi people dem from down deh so." They have been married for 13 years.
However, Bad Gyal Marie was living.