TYPICAL of the grass-roots artist, singer EVER-G has been a one-man show for most of his 25-year career.
He gets some marketing for his latest album, The Truth, scheduled to be released in April through a distribution deal with VPAL, a subsidiary of VP Records.
The 14-song set is the 58-year-old artist’s seventh album, but little is known of him in Jamaica. He has a regional following in the United States, in areas like Virginia where he lived for many years, and California. Being an independent artist has its disadvantages, EVER-G points out. One of them is a lack of budget to promote his music.
Over the years, most of his shows have been in the Virginia/Maryland/Washington DC radius, as well as California and Canada.
Recording albums, a rarity among the contemporary Jamaican artist, is still attractive to EVER-G.
“It is good to do singles but I am more interested in a body of work which will explore and deal with many and varied topics or issues,” he said. “An album embodies that body of work.”
EVER-G’s first album, World Peace, was released in 1999. His previous, Unleashed, came out last year.
— By Howard Campbell
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