The Tribune | Weekend | 11
Friday, June 18, 2021
music
Nate P creates his own perfect moment to launch new rake n’ scrape anthem By CARA HUNT | Tribune Features Writer | cbrennen@tribunemedia.net IT IS never too late to pursue your dreams – it’s a lesson Nathaniel Pierre grasped as was he driving down a deserted street in Nassau during one of last year’s lockdowns. It was in that moment that he decided to stop dithering and finally make his dream of launching a music career a reality. “I had always dreamed of being a musician. To be honest, I never thought I had a singing voice to be belting out notes. So, in my mind I was going to be a rapper. But music has always played a major role in my life,” he told Tribune Weekend. However, like many people, the 46-year-old found his life forever changed by COVID-19 last year. “I am an essential worker and so for the first time in my life I found myself driving on the streets and there were no other cars around me. “And I just had a change in my perception, it was like the world shifted and I realised that all this time I had been waiting for what I thought
would be the perfect time to start my music career, but the perfect time had never come, so I realised that it was up to me to make the time perfect.” Once he made the decision, the idea for his first single sounded loud and clear in his mind. “It was not a rap song, but I saw me singing it and hitting the notes,” he said. Nate P, as he now goes by, wrote the lyrics to his new song, “Jump in Jesus’ Name” and partnered with Dillon “DMac” McKenzie and Ray R Ewing The song features both for Common‘All this time I had been waiting rake n’ scrape and Junwealth Recording for what I thought would be the kanoo elements, as well Studios to get the perfect time to start my music career, as Afro-beats and sounds single out on a from Haiti. limited budget. but the perfect time had never “The song is naturally “The provicome, so I realised that it was up a part of me. Rap is really sions for this outside of my culture and to me to make the time perfect.’ project didn’t so I would have been borcome in an rowing that for my music. avalanche, but But rake n’ scrape is in my heart,” he said. they did come, and I am just so happy to be Nate recently just finished recording the video able to share this with the entire world. I am to accompany the song, which is now in rotation hoping to get a million downloads at least,” on local radio stations. said the new artist. He is excited that he has finally launched his He describes “Jump in Jesus’ Name” as a dream career and says he has hundreds of songs in praise song that is part testimony and part his head, he can’t wait to share. invitation for listeners to come to know “This is just the beginning.” Jesus for themselves. “It is an anthem to my “Jump in Jesus Name” is available for download spirit… that after all I know and all I have on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and all music experienced, Jesus has still turned out to be platforms. my everything,” he said.
