On December 9, 2012 the band won the Global Battle of the Bands World Finals and gained the title of "Best New Band in the World",[3][4] replacing another Jamaican band, Dubtonic Kru, the previous year's winner.[5]
Di Blueprint dedicated their win of the GBOB world finals to Rameish Folks, a former member of the band who died before being able to go London.[6][7]
Di Blueprint has been featured in the April 2012 issue of Buzzz Magazine and performed on Itey & Fancy Cat show and were the winners of the Jamaica Global Battle of the Bands competition.[8]
Three of the members of the band left after the competition.[9] The band regrouped and performed at various venues in Jamaica,[10] including the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival and the Arts in the Park festival in 2013.[11][12]
The Di Blueprint has performed at the Gungo Walk World Music Festival and has experimented with the use of the computer audio processing plug-in Autotune by Antares with their vocals on select songs as they fuse dance, reggae and dancehall music forms.[13] In 2014, the band toured internationally with singer Konshens.[14]
Di Blueprint has also performed at Usain Bolt's "Tracks & Records" at their "Behind the Screen" performance series.[15]
Members
The members of the band in 2013 were guitarist and lead singer Elton Brown,[16] bass player Alex Gallimore,[17] Keyboardist and musical director Vern Hill, Band leader and drummer Kedron Kennedy.[18][19][20][21]