Heads turn whenever Lennox ‘Buppy’ Brown walks the streets of Los Angeles, California, as the Jamaican who hails from Portland is oftentimes mistaken for popular US-based actor Wesley Snipes.

Face to face I jokingly asked Buppy if he believes he resembles the dashing American actor. He chuckled before responding in true Jamaican style, “Dat’s wha people say.”

There’s no mistaking: Buppy bears an uncanny resemblance to Snipes. The picture on his latest album is testimony of a fact verified by film director, Tony Scott who cast the Vauxhall Secondary and Camperdown High school past student as Wesley Snipes’ photo and body double.

L-R Weslry Snipes, Clliff Booker (hair-Stylist), Craig Anthony (Wardword) & Lennox 'Buppy' Brown on the set of Blade II

Buppy learnt the rudiment of being a disc jockey at his father’s promoted dances as a child in Jamaica. He was a saxophone player with a number of bands, including 7th Extension and Tommy McCook & the Supersonics.

Fresh out of school, in 1984, Buppy found employment on the Carnival Cruise line where among his seaman duties were standing-in as a relief disc jock. After two years however, and on a two-week shore leave at his sister’s place in California, Brown contemplated his future....

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