At the age of 11 he moved to Kingston settling at Bull Bay with his mother and three brothers.  There again, he was exposed to more music with various sound systems that would play in the area.  Those days were rough as stated by Ifa when he experience extreme poverty.  At one stage his mother had no choice but to put her sons into a boy’s home.  Their Ifa would leave from Ray Town to go to Alfa Boys home where he would learn music.  Alfa Boys home is the home of many of Jamaica’s top musicians including Yellowman, Leroy Smart, Dean Fraser to name a few.  He later attended Kingston Senior School.  He did not get to graduate as the needs of the family came first so he went to Chestervale Training Camp where he learned electrical engineering.  There he experienced strong discipline.

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After leaving Chestervale he started working at Brown’s Hardware on Spanish Town Road in Kingston.  He left there to return to England in the year 1984.  He started to sing on a sound called Mafia and later on Youth Man Promotion where he went under the name Winston General as a close friend and associate of Mikey General who was living in Peckham in England at the time.  He also used to sing harmonies with Junior Chin on Asher-World, which was one of leading sounds in the UK at that time.  He appeared on shows up and down the country. 

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​He traveled to the USA where he spent a number of months singing on Exodus.  Soon after returning to the UK he became more afro-centric and traveled to Nigeria and Ghana where he was a initiated into the ways of the Orisha’s as a IFA priest (indigenous African spiritual way of life) and given the name Ifa-Tunde; meaning the oracle has returned.