When Avlon Coleman migrated to the United States in the mid-1990s, he already had an eclectic taste in music \u2014 appreciating everything from gospel to dancehall and hip hop. As gospel artist Vessel, he incorporates those elements into his songs.<\/p>\n
\u2018Truly Bless\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018Doing it Big\u2019<\/em><\/strong> are his latest songs, both produced by Craig McDonald, with whom he has worked for most of his career.<\/p>\n The songs are driven by frenetic, EDM-type beats presented to Vessel by McDonald. Based in South Florida, the singjay is typical of contemporary gospel acts who yearn to find an audience beyond their traditional base.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of my songs are different, I don\u2019t put myself in a box in terms of dancehall, hip hop, reggae, and so forth. I have been exposed to a whole lot of music, so it\u2019s dependent on the beats I get from the producer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Vessel started his music career in 2002 as a member of DMC, a harmony trio. Eventually, he became a solo act who has recorded two albums \u2018Christwalker\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018His Steps\u2019<\/em><\/strong> to date.<\/p>\n Like most modern gospel acts, Vessel is attracted to secular music. He counts rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., and dancehall heavyweights Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, as influences.\u00a0 For Vessel, spreading God\u2019s message is paramount.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t limit myself to a particular demographic. I do me and make God do the rest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Avlon Coleman migrated to the United States in the mid-1990s, he already had an eclectic taste in music \u2014 appreciating everything from gospel to dancehall and hip hop. As gospel artist Vessel, he incorporates those elements into his songs. \u2018Truly Bless\u2019 and \u2018Doing it Big\u2019 are his latest songs, both produced by Craig McDonald, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","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=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7512,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions\/7512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}