There is more than one artist with the stage name Snow: The two best-known artists with this name are (1) a Canadian reggae musician, and (2) a Japanese J-Pop singer. 1) Snow (born Darrin O'Brien on October 30, 1968 in North York, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian reggae musician. His music is an interplay between reggae, dancehall with toasting and singjaying. One of his neighboring Jamaican families introduced him as a teenager to reggae and began calling him "Snow" and "Snow White".