Romain Virgo’s My Woman and I single arrived October 31 with its official music video released the same day, giving the Jamaican singer’s lovers rock audience the full package in a single drop. The song, produced by Mr. G and built on the Promised Land riddim, is Virgo doing exactly what he has done better than almost anyone for nearly twenty years: singing a love song like it is the only subject that matters.
Virgo announced the release himself on Facebook, and his wording suggested the song had been held back for the right moment. Toronto’s reggae audience, raised on sound system culture and a deep Jamaican diaspora tradition, is one of the most loyal Romain Virgo audiences outside Jamaica, and a simultaneous single and video release is built for exactly that kind of word of mouth.
The wait is finally over. I hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed bringing it to life.
One Drop, Song And Video Together
The video is directed by Samo, credited as SAMO Jesse James, a visual collaborator Virgo has returned to before, including the SAMO directed visuals for Driver in 2023. The production credit goes to Mr. G, and the song rides the Promised Land riddim, which places a one to one love song inside the riddim culture that still organises how reggae singles travel. The stream link Virgo shared points listeners to Ineffable, and the rollout is clean: one song, one video, one link, no staggered teasing.
That restraint is part of the Virgo method. Where dancehall singles often arrive with a campaign around them, his releases tend to let the vocal carry the announcement. My Woman and I is a title that tells its story before a note plays, and the performance follows through, devotion and sincerity delivered in the warm, unhurried register that has defined his catalogue.
A Lane Built Since 2007
Virgo won Digicel Rising Stars in 2007 and converted a television competition title into a durable recording career, which is the exception rather than the rule for talent show winners. His self titled debut album arrived through VP Records in 2010, followed by The System in 2012 and Lovesick in 2018. Along the way he stacked records like Who Feels It Knows It and I Am Rich In Love, and his reggae reworking of Sam Smith’s Stay With Me carried his voice well beyond the reggae core to listeners who had never followed a riddim release in their lives.
The recent single run shows the same patience. Good Woman closed out 2021, Driver arrived in March 2023 as his first single in sixteen months, produced by Don Corleon, and My Woman and I now continues that line: romantic, vocal forward reggae made by a singer in no hurry to chase whatever the charts are doing this quarter. In a genre economy that rewards volume, Virgo’s catalogue argues for the opposite, fewer songs, each one finished properly.
Why This One Travels In Toronto
Reggae’s Toronto story is a diaspora story. Jamaican migration built the city’s sound system scene, its community radio tradition and a concert circuit that has kept singers like Virgo on Toronto stages across his whole career. Lovers rock in particular has always had a home here, because it is the sound of the community’s own celebrations, played at family functions and old school dances as faithfully as it is streamed.
A new Virgo single therefore lands in Toronto with a built in audience that does not need to be introduced to him. It lands, too, at the start of the indoor season, when the city’s Caribbean calendar turns from summer festivals to dances and stage shows, and a warm mid tempo love song is precisely the record that gets carried from one to the next.
What has not been announced is what My Woman and I is leading toward. Virgo has not said whether the single stands alone or opens a larger project, and no live dates have been attached to it yet. For now the song and the video are the whole statement, and on the strength of his last two decades, that is enough to keep it in rotation while the next move takes shape.
