[1] He has been called the "Godfather of Sierra Leone music".
[2] Jimmy B acted in the Eddie Murphy's 1988' romantic comedy Coming to America before moving to South Africa, setting up a music studio there and achieving success as a musician.
[3] After the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002, Jimmy B facilitated the release of several hip hop albums and compilations from Paradise Studio.
[5] He has presented The Jimmy B Show, a radio show on Freetown's AiRadio which specializes in Sierra Leonean music.
[6] In 2019 his teenage son drowned in the United States of America.