Professionally known as Vas Blackwood the Actor, I was actually christened Vasta Roy Blackwood Jr & like most children my friends would later abbreviate Vasta to Vas. 

It is said a name usually personifies semblances of antiquity, cultural heritage, spiritual favour mixed with a tinge of abracadabra.  Born Junior to my Fathers Vasta Senior, to this day, I am continuously compelled by the idiosyncratic rational of my Jamaican Grandfather who was simply christened George Blackwood.