Pastor Jumu Grant grew up listening to a potpourri of music in his native Trinidad and Tobago \u2014 everything from the calypso of David Rudder and Black Stalin to the neo-soul of Boyz II Men and Beres Hammond\u2019s lovers rock reggae.<\/p>\n
Based in Edmonton, Alberta for the past 11 years, the minister of religion still tunes in to contemporary music with a secular sound. On \u2018All Praises Due\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he collaborates with Bahamian gospel rapper Mr. Blaxx.<\/p>\n The two agreed to record the song after being introduced by Orlando Miller, who manages both. \u2018All Praises Due\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is produced by Minister Solomon Bill of the Empowerment Recording Studios in Edmonton.<\/p>\n According to Jumu Grant, he and Mister Blaxx hit it off immediately.\u00a0 \u201cWe share a very similar approach to the gospel first of all. Our genres of choice when it comes to worship are mostly reggae gospel, soca gospel, rap\/hip hop gospel and contemporary gospel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Grant is from a village in southern Trinidad called New Grant. He began recording songs two years ago, his first released single being \u2018Joy\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Raised in a Christian home, he also listened to traditional gospel acts like Shirley Caesar.<\/p>\n Mr. Blaxx is from Nassau and has made a name in his country, praising the Lord to a hip hop beat.\u00a0 Jumu Grant says the Edmonton gospel scene is picking up again after being stalled by Covid-19.\u00a0 \u201cIn Edmonton, the contemporary gospel scene is becoming more revived coming out of the pandemic. We trust God that it will regain its strength and flourish into something greater.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor Jumu Grant grew up listening to a potpourri of music in his native Trinidad and Tobago \u2014 everything from the calypso of David Rudder and Black Stalin to the neo-soul of Boyz II Men and Beres Hammond\u2019s lovers rock reggae. Based in Edmonton, Alberta for the past 11 years, the minister of religion still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,11],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-music","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}