Teen gospel reggae singer Enoch Thomas launches debut album in Kingston

A 12-year-old Antiguan singer turned a Kingston album launch into a Caribbean statement of intent when Enoch Thomas unveiled his debut, It’s My Turn, at Summit on Chelsea Avenue in New Kingston. The 17-track gospel reggae project drew a full house with standing room only, and it immediately signalled that this was more than a novelty act passing through the city.

The album is built on collaboration across two islands. Most of the recordings were completed in Antigua, while the mixing and mastering were finished in Jamaica, giving the release a deliberate Antiguan-Jamaican blend. The project also features Jamaican recording artistes Khaanah Stone, Chanea Lewis and Minister D Brown, while Camar Doyles of Flava and Patexx are among the producers tied to the work. That combination gives It’s My Turn the feel of a serious regional rollout rather than a small debut from a child singer.

Enoch said the album was made to encourage young people across the Caribbean to stand confidently in their faith and purpose. The title track carries personal weight as well, because it was the first duet he recorded with his mother. At the launch, that family connection sat beside the bigger professional moment: a young artist finally bringing a long-awaited project to life in front of a packed Kingston audience. Enoch also said part of his management team is Jamaican and that Caribbean people should work together, a view reflected in the way the album was assembled.

His Kingston launch also came with a deeper backstory. Enoch recently donated more than half a million dollars to Glory Music for hurricane relief, after fundraising in Antigua and online through a GoFundMe. He said his school held a fundraiser for hurricane victims before he came to Jamaica, and that he also raised money through ice-pole sales, a cake sale and T-shirt merchandise. He had already performed in Jamaica the previous Christmas, recorded a reggae version of O Holy Night with Minister Carlene Davis, and said he was moved by the damage he saw in St Elizabeth.

The debut lands after a fast rise that has already brought him serious recognition at home. Enoch won the inaugural Praise Break Gospel Quest Antigua & Barbuda at age 11, then received the Chairman’s Award at Antigua and Barbuda’s 2025 National Music Awards in March. He also recorded vocals at Hottboxx Studio in Portmore, appeared on TVJ and On-Stage, and worked on the upcoming collaboration Protect Our Children with Luciano and Capleton. With It’s My Turn, the young singer is arriving in Kingston not as a curiosity, but as one of the clearest new gospel-reggae voices coming up through the region.