This Week We Feature Young Professional Travis J. Osbourne who has a passion for owning things. Photo: VINO

Soon Bumpy would be heading off to one of the prestigious overseas universities in the USA where he will be passionately chasing after a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Construction Management and Engineering. Photo: VINO

Mr Osbourne has been blazing the stages as a singer with his own unique style and flare to the music industry. Photo: VINO/File

Though the motivational sessions which were the brainchild of First District Representative Honourable Andrew A. Fahie our Young Professional was the first of a group of youths in the First District to lead off session where they interacted with children at the primary level at school. Photo: VINO/File

He is no stranger to the ears and eyes of persons across the Territory, most persons may be more familiar with him by the call name ‘B Breezy’ or ‘Bumpy’, both of which he is fond of, but for this article chooses to be referred to as Bumpy.

Mr Osbourne has been blazing the stages as a singer with his own unique style and flare to the music industry. He is a young man who speaks to the fashion and trend of the day reaching the hearts of his targeted audience with his music since, for him, he features reality in his music.

But there is a side that is not very well known of him by most people. You may pass him on the street; see him sporting his cap turned the ‘back way forward’, his eyes shaded by his sunglasses and in most cases dressed to suit his flare and taste. But what is not seen is the dedicated entrepreneurial side of him.

Travis J. Osbourne has just completed his studies at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College where he read for an associate degree in Engineering and Architectural Drawing. He currently waits that day which is to come sometime in June when he will join many others as they dress in those green gowns and walk the isles to collect their certificates.

To think that would be the ‘end all be all’ for him and the books and all focus turned to fulfilling his dreams as an artist would be a shattered thought as very soon Bumpy would be heading off to one of the prestigious overseas universities in the USA where he will be passionately chasing after a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Construction Management and Engineering.

His motive behind pursuing this level of studies is for one reason, “I like to own things, I don’t like to depend on nobody, I believe in being successful in anything that I do so I am going to study to attain certain goals in life,” he said.

Today he is already showing that he is capable of being a successful businessman with a thriving business in the transportation arena already under his cap. “I don’t believe in limiting myself or putting myself in one playing field, if I feel I could take on my music and still take on other stuff I will because I like owning things,” he said.

Asked where he sees himself in the next five to ten years our Young Professional responded, “You can be sure of one thing in the next five to ten years you would see me owning things, being successful at it and not sitting around depending only on my music to do if for me. I will be owning things right here in my country,” he said.

Bumpy said that he sees himself as a role model to youths of his age grouping as he came from the very background of the average youth but is proud to know that he did not allow peer pressure and other negative influences to chart his course in life. “I grew up hard, in a rough society, among rough people and I could have done some of the things that weren’t right but I decided in myself that I was going to be different and lead my life. I would not let peer pressure decide for me; I was determined to do things the other way.”

The other way for him was to use his inspiration to put lyrics together and speak to his peers though the microphone on stage and via the compilation of his songs on an album. Today he is preparing to release his second album, the name of which he declined to speak of at this stage.

“Music took me out of a lot of situations, if it wasn’t for music who knows where I would have been today, not everyone is like me but I am happy that I was able to make a lot of the right decisions on my own, it may not be the same for everyone but I managed to it.”

Though the motivational sessions which were the brainchild of First District Representative  Honourable Andrew A. Fahie our Young Professional was the first of a group of youths in the First District to lead off session where they interacted with children at the primary level at school.

This Bumpy sees as a safe and smart way of reaching the younger generations as they more relate to those who they consider to be in their class of life. “The person coming to them in shirt and tie don’t necessarily get the message [to] hit home immediately because for most youths they are not on the same level,” he said.

In his parting advice to youths his message was, “Never wait for things to fall in place for you, no one has to push you, every one of us has an inward strength to do things to make things happen for us and when you realize that the sky is the limit.”