Local gospel singer releases first CD

And while much of the music playing this month will be loaded with patriotism, one local artist is hoping her religious CD will find a place in your collection. News Five’s Marion Ali explains.

Marion Ali, reporting
There is a new sound out for the September celebrations. But the music you’ll hear when playing this CD is not the usual jump up. Chriselda Gillett says her first release contains all Gospel songs.

Chriselda Gillett, Gospel singer
“It was a dream, it was a calling from God to do a CD because I’ve been singing since I was like maybe 10, singing in the Church. And so as I was growing older and growing up, people used to ask me ‘when will that CD come out’, because I’ve always been singing here and there for funerals, for weddings and stuff like that. So people have been asking when will it come out so I tell them ‘very soon, very soon’, and this is the year and this is the moment.”

Marion Ali
“What determined that moment for you? You’ve been putting it off for so long, why now?”

Chriselda Gillett
“Maturing as a Christian it’s something you can’t hold back. When God tell you now is the time, now to do it and so this is the moment. This is the year that God has spoken to me.”

Gillett’s original pieces can be found in songs number two and seven, works that give personal accounts of her life and emotions.

Chriselda Gillett
“Most of these are old Gospel songs in different versions, but song number seven is a song that I wrote, the words to that song. How I love you Jesus, how I want to serve you, how I want to live for you. That’s my dream, that’s my future, to live and to serve God. Song number two is a life testimony because I’ve been through some storms in life. If you listen to it you will hear song number two, ‘When The Storm Passes By’.”

Marion Ali for News Five.

The CD retails for twenty dollars a copy.