Newly crowned The Voice winner Tessanne Chin said for her upcoming album she would love to do some recording in her homeland.
Chin, who was voted season five winner of the NBC talent competition, received a recording contract from Universal Music Group. The yet-to-be titled album has a tentative release date of March.
The singer was special guest at the Jamaica Observer’s Monday Exchange held at the company’s Beechwood Avenue office yesterday.
“I start recording January/February… I hope we could do something where we could bring them down to, like say a Geejam, and make them experience that type of writing and exploration,” she said.
“I may not be doing outright reggae but anything I do will have an island swag to it because that’s my blood,” she said. Built in 2008, Geejam Recording Studio is located in rustic Portland and is owned by Jon Baker and his business partner Steve Beaver.
The studio has had an enviable list of acts passing through its doors including rapper Drake, rockers No Doubt and Gorillaz, neo-soulstress India.Arie, Afro-world music ambassadors Les Nubians, Wyclef Jean, Björk, and Amy Winehouse.
“We had a brief meeting with the label and I fully understand that it is going to take the same amount of effort and work… my work has just begun.
Luckily, I’m prepared for it and I want it,” she said.
The Hideaway singer, who now has her sights set on a Grammy award, revealed her dream list of artistes she would love to do collabs with.
Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley tops the list and so, too, her coach Adam Levine, the man responsible for taking her voice to the next level.
Source- Jamaica Observer
