KNOWN for being half of the production duo Jus Now, producing soca hits like Big Bad Soca and Truck on D Road by Bunji Garlin and Junction by Machel Montano, Keshav Chandradath Singh has now added "artiste" to his several titles in the music industry.

Singh, who has loved music since childhood, is now gradually giving listeners a taste and feel of his musical style as a singer.

In more recent years, he has worked on popular tracks including Freetown Collective’s Feel the Love, Kes The Band’s IzWE, and Garlin’s The Struggle.

He also produced the 2022 Live Again and Rice Pot riddims, and the 2019 Badang riddim with Rakka. He even had one of his collaborations (Winner Walk) featured in an Apple ad.

He told Newsday that just before the covid19 pandemic began, he was working on an album, as he felt it was finally the right time to begin this new journey.

“I started off writing, but now I just go behind the mic, and much like my bredrin Bunji Garlin, I deal with what I feel and it comes out on a mic. I might go back and change a line or melody or something.”

He said when the world seemingly came to a standstill as the pandemic intensified, the time he spent writing and creating music “felt like years. In the beginning of this process, I felt like I was making up for lost time, since I’m sort of a late bloomer in this regard. But for me, I always wanted to do this and it was the plan all along.”

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In total, he wrote around 45 songs.

On March 12 – his 39th birthday – he released the EP Attraction on streaming platforms, with a launch party in the evening at the Dalai Llama, One Woodbrook Place, in Port of Spain.

The four tracks – Got Me Like, The Light, Swing, and Come My Way – were all written, produced, mixed and mastered by Singh and feature a mixture of pop, synth wave, Afrobeat, dancehall and soca.

He told Newsday he wanted to help listeners to experience “what it’s like to see love and attraction in my head, in a really simple way.

“I’ve had my brushes with and emergence in love and attraction and I wanted to put together something that felt like an authentic experience of different sides of love. From just meeting somebody, to being connected to them in an intense way – they’re very inspired by moments.”

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His favourite track is The Light, which sounds as if it came straight out of a movie or video game from the 1980s.

“The main synth line is one of those things that just came to me. I was just sitting down being still. And it’s when I’m being still that some of the most powerful melodies, riffs, lines, whatever they are, come to me, and this thing hit me like a tonne of bricks.”

Singh has always known he wanted to explore being an artiste, crediting a lot of his inspiration to musi