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Kerron was a part of the Jamaican gospel group Perpetual Praise Team from 2003-2009. In October 2007 Kerron received The Jamaica Observer Teenage Choice Awards for Gospel Artiste Of The Year In 2012 she won a Video Web Award for best reggae gospel song of the year for "God Is Not Done With Me Yet", [4] from her album I'm Alive (2013). The album ...
Gospel reggae is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica, mixing reggae rhythms with Christian-themed lyrics. Several reggae artists, many of whom were previously part of the Rastafari movement , have converted to Christianity and adopted gospel reggae as their primary style.
After collaborations in 2000 with deejays Papa San ("Touch From You") and Lieutenant Stitchie ("Mr. Lover" - a charting hit in the US [4]), she released her first gospel album, Joy, in 2001, toured internationally, and won (in 2002) 5 Caribbean Gospel Reggae Marlin Awards. [5] Her gospel music was controversial with some for combining dancehall ...
Papa San sponsors a concert known as Papa San and Friends, to raise funds for orphanages in rural Jamaica. Since becoming a Christian, he has continued to produce his roots reggae sound, but with the message of Christ to the beat instead of his previously popular secular music.
Carlene Davis (born c. 1953) is a Jamaican gospel and reggae singer active since the 1970s. Successful since the early 1980s as a reggae artist, she survived cancer in the mid-1990s, after which she dedicated her career to gospel music.
He was released from his Virgin contract in 1991, returning to Jamaica, where he became a dancehall act. Tucker also had international success (especially in Australia in 1991) with a reggae cover of the 1980 Benny Mardones hit "Into the Night". Junior Tucker's version was called "16 (Into The Night)".
While Christafari continued with roots reggae and dancehall, Temple Yard was fusion oriented, showing pop, reggae, soul, and gospel influence similar to artists like UB40 or Big Mountain. [15] Temple Yard released one album on Gotee Records in 1999, two more independent albums (in 2002 and 2005) and subsequently broke up.
Christine Chin (born 1974), [2] better known by her stage names Sasha and Sista Sasha, is a Jamaican dancehall musician, presently recording gospel music. [3] Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she was raised in Queens, New York City. [2] Her first big hit was Dat Sexy Body. [2]