Vincentian gospel singer wins big at ggh Music Awards

Gospel recording artiste Clairon Haynes walked away with two music awards for her single “Jesus Got My Back” at the 2017 GGH Music Awards, held in western Canada, approximately five hours by air from her home city, Montreal, Quebec.

Haynes said the double nomination came as a surprise to her, since it was the first time that her music has caught the attention of a section of Canadian music lovers so much so that they thought the song was deemed worthy of being among the top records released in 2017. “Jesus Got My Back” was nominated in two categories: Gospel Record of the Year 2017 and Songwriter for an upbeat record. These are her first wins since she made her entrance to the gospel music arena in 2015 with her first ballad “You Reign Supreme, Lord”.

Clairon Haynes is a familiar name on the local music scene.

In 2015-2017 she released her music on several local radio stations. Two of her music videos for her singles “Jesus Got My Back” and “I Need to Hear From You Lord” were shown on SVG TV.

The song “Jesus Got My Back” was produced by Dominican born Krishna “DadaMusic” Lawrence, a producer who specializes in soca rhythms. In fact, the winning Soca Monarch 2017 song for Fireman and the Road March win by Problem Child were produced by this producer.

On April 23, 2017 Clairon released ‘Jesus Got My Back’ on several radio stations in Montreal, Toronto, Atlanta, Georgia, and SVG. The song instantly began to resonate with people of all walks of life. This is evident in the number of digital downloads on Itunes, Amazon, Google play music store, etc. She is grateful to fellow Vincentians and the world, by extension, for all of the love and support that they continue to show to her music.

These two awards bring the singer’s nominations from her debut album that is currently midway through completion to a total of four.

Two of the awards are from the SVG AMP Awards in SVG and two from the GGH Music Awards in Canada. She won both categories that she was nominated for by the GGH Music Awards (Gospel Record of the Year and Songwriter for an upbeat record).

Clairon said she is grateful to Jehovah God, her family, friends, followers and fans for all of the kind sentiments which she has received since she broke the news officially on social media.

So far, Clairon has completed seven songs from a total of 14 original songs, which she intends to put on her first gospel album. She has worked with several different producers, so that she can vary the sound of each record. She wrote/is writing all of the songs which will be on the album.