International reggae gospel singer Kevin Downswell’s fourth studio album “Grace (Brought Me Here)” debuted at No. 86 on the Apple Music Jamaica daily chart on Saturday July 8, 2023. Grace also peaked at No. 17 in Grenada on Friday July 7, 2023, a week after its June 30 release date. Downswell also released his second live album “Shift” simultaneously.
Downswell told WMV, “It feels good, and we give God every bit of the honor, nothing like working four years on something and see it blow your mind on its first week of release. Thankful.”
This is the leading gospel singer’s first appearances on the Apple Music chart in both Jamaica and Grenada and “Grace (Brought Me Here)” is currently the only gospel album on the Apple Music Grenada chart. The title track “Grace” which is the English translation Carissa, his daughter’s Hebrew name, has so far earned 120,000 streams on Spotify.
“I did grow from the first to the last track. It’s like you watch yourself changing and it’s just amazing. The album took roughly four years and between that four-year span Kevin at year one was a different Kevin at year four,” Downswell told the Jamaican Gleaner.
Kevin’s most streamed song on Spotify is “If Its Not You (Then Lord Its Nothing)” with 450,000 streams.
Working with Downswell productions to produce the line of of 13 tracks on Grace (Brought Me Here) were Dwayne “Barbwire Campbell, Lamar “Riff Raff” Brown, Ritchie Stephenson, Nebulous productions.
Of note Downswell has a Spanish Edition of his local hit single Carry Me featuring Jeannie Ortega.
Listen to Grace on Spotify below:
