by Howard Campbell
NEW JERSEY – Eleven individuals have been acknowledged on the thirty sixth Sunshine Awards which befell on October 19 at Robert Deal with Resort in Newark, New Jersey. They embrace artists, sculptors and humanitarians from the Caribbean.
Amongst them is Carlene Davis, the Jamaican singer who excelled as a secular and gospel artist. Promoters cited her contribution to music.
“Now, get this straight; my inventive course of shouldn’t be targeted on awards however on the message that God has given me to share. Nonetheless, awards are public recognition of the work being carried out and I recognize every award as recognition of my dedication to excellence in sharing God’s phrase and love for mankind,” she mentioned. “My complete effort is embedded in function and my project by the Almighty God. I’m appreciative when mankind chooses to acknowledge me for what I do right here on Earth, and that the music I make and the dedication to unfold the phrase of God. It’s a testimony that’s bearing fruit and shining the sunshine in a darkish world, that there’s hope.”
Davis is initially from Clarendon parish in Jamaica. She had quite a few hit songs as a pop artist throughout the Nineteen Eighties earlier than her conversion to Christianity a decade later.
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Additionally accepting Sunshine Awards have been Samraj “Rikki Jai” Jaimungal, Donric “Lord Humorous” Williamson and Rhonda Maingot & Rose Jackman from Trinidad & Tobago; Edwin Yearwood (Barbados); Jallim Eudovic (St. Lucia); Edson Mitchell (Grenada); Carl Fraser (Guyana); Kettly Maars (Haiti); Ethiopian Herman Bekele and American musician Matthew Whitaker.
