Shawn Antoine is pure talent – and definitely one that has earned the respect of the music fraternity because of his willpower and support of the movement to make good music.

In fact, Antoine’s career did not start as a singer/songwriter, but as an a keyboardist which had him touring at the mere age of 13 years old accompanying gospel and secular artistes. “In the midst of doing production for recording artistes, I would work on the harmonies and write music, and soon persons recognised that I could sing,” Antoine told The Gleaner.

And man can he sing! His vocal range magically surrounds you – smooth as it moving easily from rebel rootsy reggae as in his debut single Fight, to the melodic whispers of neo-soul or R & B as in his 2017 release Missing You to the witty lyrical play on his Up For Grabs collaboration with Chris Martin.