From Millet And Fond St. Jacques To The Gospel World Stage

During a recent interview with St. Lucia Times, Gospel Singer Emrand Henry who is celebrating 20 years in the business this year, spoke of the challenges he faced doing Reggae and Soca Gospel music in the beginning. His first recording was a Reggae Gospel, “What is going on?” Henry also reflected on his 2011 song the up-tempo “Doctor (the country is sick) which highlighted many of the social ills and crime in Saint Lucia, that still hold true today. Given that some of the same issues still exists, we sought comment from him. “We need to understand that just as the Bible says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world…we basically are into spiritual warfare and it is sad that a lot of the young people are caught in the crossfire of spiritual warfare and that as it was in the beginning the aim of the enemy is to destroy and bring destruction to families,” Henry said. “If you are asking me how to curb or try to bring the crime rate down we need to understand spiritual warfare, we need to understand that we...