Joseph Paquette, known as Prince Ital Joe, was born on May 5, 1963 in Roseau,
Dominica, where he grew up until the age of eleven. In 1976, he moved with his
family to Brooklyn, New York, where he later graduated from high school. In
California in the late 1980s, he worked as an entertainer at private gigs and as
a concert promoter, including for Ziggy Marley. Stylistically, he combines
reggae, ragga, hip-hop and Eurodance. In 1993 he meets Mark Wahlberg (Marky
Mark). Together they released the albumLife in the Streets in 1994, which
reached number 10 in the album charts in German...