Artist: Kevin Lyttle
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
I Got It
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Watching the local Calypsonians march by from his mother's shoulders and and so sledding base and observance Michael Jackson perform "Billie Jean" on television receiver was an influential mix for the seven-year-old Kevin Lyttle, a mix that stuck with him. Soca was the prevailing music in Lyttle's native island of St. Vincent, merely it was the R&B ballad "Shower Me With Your Love" by Surface that was the beginning birdsong Lyttle american ginseng onstage at the age of 14. With his syndicate surviving on small means, Lyttle worked a variety of sidereal day jobs, saved some money, and prune demos when he could yield it. Some music fanatic co-workers were vocalizing the praises of St. Vincent producer Adrian Bailey, whose slick mode was causation some excitation in the soca reality. When Lyttle got a demonstration to Bailey, the producer was astonied by the voice, i he compared to the lackadaisical, soulful croon of reggae's Beres Hammond. In 2001 the couple -- in deuce takes and in less than hour -- had recorded the sexy "Turn Me On." The R&B-flavored soca ballad was all the rage at the 2001 St. Vincent Carnival and cursorily spread to neighboring islands by radio receiver. Soon Lyttle was signed to a management company world Health Organization shipped copies of "Move around Me On" to DJs in the U.S. and Europe, only to find oneself bootlegs were already storming up the play lean. Atlantic picked the record up in 2003, and a legitimate release put the single in the U.K.'s Top Ten for over x weeks. In March of 2004, Atlantic pushed it to American radiocommunication piece international gross revenue were approaching a one thousand thousand. The label released Lyttle's self-titled debut ecumenical in July of 2004.
