Kevin Lyttle

Watching the neighborhood Calypsonians marching by from his mother’s shoulder blades and then heading home and viewing Michael Jackson execute “Billie Jean” on tv was an influential combine for the seven-year-old Kevin Lyttle, a combination that trapped with him. Soca was the predominant music in Lyttle’s indigenous isle of St. Vincent, nonetheless it was the R&B ballad “Shower Me TOGETHER WITH YOUR Like” by Surface area that was the initial melody Lyttle sang on-stage at age 14. Along with his family members surviving on humble means, Lyttle proved helpful a number of time jobs, saved some cash, and cut demos when he could afford it. Some music fanatic co-workers had been performing the praises of St. Vincent manufacturer Adrian Bailey, whose slick design was leading to some enthusiasm in the soca globe. When Lyttle got a demonstration to Bailey, the manufacturer was stunned with the tone of voice, one he set alongside the dreamy, soulful croon of reggae’s Beres Hammond. In 2001 the duo — in two will take and in under hour — acquired documented the sexy “Convert Me On.” The R&B-flavored soca ballad was extremely popular on the 2001 St. Vincent Carnival and quickly pass on to neighboring islands by radio. Shortly Lyttle was agreed upon to a administration company who delivered copies of “Convert Me On” to DJs in the U.S. and European countries, only to discover bootlegs were currently storming in the play list. Atlantic selected the record up in 2003, and the best release place the one in the U.K.’s TOP for more than ten weeks. In March of 2004, Atlantic pressed it to American radio while worldwide sales were getting close to a million. The label released Lyttle’s self-titled debut world-wide in July of 2004.