Wayne Wonder is THE STAR's featured artiste for this month. Today we continue looking at the struggles the singer has faced in his attempt to become an artiste.

WAYNE WONDER'S STRUGGLES did not end after he got the chance to record, that's where more struggles began.

According to Wayne, the earlier producers who gave him the chance to record always dictated what he should sing, and he had to compete with deejays.

"I grew up listening to one- drop music, slow and laid- back," he states. "When I started recording I had to compete with the deejays on the rhythm. When they had a rhythm the deejays would get popular with the fast tunes, so I had to find something to put on the rhythm that would make people listen."

This, he said, led him to do covers. "Some producers never interested in original lyrics, dem just seh, sing so and so tune on the rhythm or yu nah record, and that was it."

Added to that, Wayne remembers the painful route that only a few deejays remember taking to get their break - sound system deejaying.

He remembers nights when he sang his heart out on the Metro Media sound system, travelling with it from parish to parish just to stay in the limelight. "Those were some hard days, but yu know, we did it cause it was just a joy to do those things. We as artistes never have any vendetta gainst one another. Yu had more love dem time deh."

Nowadays, according to Wayne, artistes have easy access to producers and studios so their lives are not that difficult.