Carlene Davis.
It has been seven years since gospel singer and minister Carlene Davis launched an album. That drought will come to an finish with the discharge of her thirteenth gospel album, Songs of Zion.
The album, the follow-up to 2018’s The Task, is a co-production between Davis and her husband and enterprise associate Tommy Cowan.
It’s set for launch inside the subsequent two months by way of Glory Music.
In an interview with the Jamaica Observer, Davis shared particulars concerning the venture.
“The album is absolutely taking it to the streets bringing glory to God in a mode that the typical man can relate to. It’s only a completely happy album and it’s relatable. On this day we’ve got to stay relatable,” Davis reasoned.
Among the many musicians who lent their skills to the venture have been Dave Inexperienced, Dale Brown (bass), Othneil Lewis (keyboard), Dean Fraser (sax), and Kenroy “Shortman” Mullings (guitar).
As for the message behind the venture, Davis shared: “The message is to by no means surrender. Age is only a quantity; by no means cease doing what you do greatest.”
Rapha, the primary single from Songs of Zion, was launched in March 2024.
“Rapha means the god who heals. The track has been doing the rounds and radio stations have been giving it help. It was given to me by an expensive buddy of ours, Robert Levy. He had heard the track and stated, ‘My God, I hear you on this track.’ It actually blessed me, as a result of on the time Tommy was challenged health-wise throughout that interval, and we didn’t hesitate to get into the studio to report it,” stated Davis.
She added: “The track units the ambiance to be inspired.”
Davis carved out a prolific profession in secular music within the early Eighties with songs comparable to her cowl of Jimmy Cliff’s The Tougher They Come, Like Outdated Associates Do (a canopy of Abba’s obscure recording The Manner Outdated Associates Do), Stealing Love, and later with Dial My Quantity, It Should be Love and Going Right down to Paradise.
Within the Nineties she recommitted her life to the Lord after she found that she had breast most cancers.
“I used to be led to reconnect my life after I was identified with breast most cancers. That was the turning level in my life. I grew up in church as a baby and I knew the Lord, however as you get older and turn into an grownup, residing your life, is like one foot in and one foot out. When that point got here I simply knew that except He took management, it was my time to [have a] one on one with Him,” Davis defined.
