Pos­i­tive mes­sages through mu­si­cal words of wis­dom seem to be the main char­ac­ter­is­tic in the tracks that are about to be re­leased by To­bag­on­ian artiste, Obe­di­ah Thomas. The 44-year-old vo­cal­ist and song­writer is mak­ing good use of his tal­ent to pro­mote a healthy and pos­i­tive lifestyle to any­one with whom he comes in­to con­tact. Through a new al­bum that's card­ed to be un­leashed to­day at Mount Grace Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in To­ba­go, Thomas har­monis­es on sev­er­al tracks, joined on a few by fe­male singer, Ju­lia Baynes. Thomas de­liv­ers a myr­i­ad of strict­ly pos­i­tive lyrics atop sooth­ing melodies that's some­what rem­i­nis­cent of the 80's.

In light of the na­tion­al state of emer­gency, the al­bum's re­lease may just be what the doc­tor or­dered, ac­cord­ing to mem­bers of Thomas' team. They ra­tio­nalise that Thomas' rhyth­mic, pos­i­tive mes­sages could in­ject hope in­to young minds and pow­er in­to el­ders. Thomas has been a cham­pi­on for ca­lyp­so and oth­er tra­di­tion­al Caribbean mu­si­cal gen­res since the age of eight. At age 44, he has marked a num­ber of suc­cess­es, among them, be­ing ho­n­oured as the most promis­ing ca­lyp­son­ian in To­ba­go in 1991. Hav­ing been a part of the To­ba­go Ho­tel cir­cuit as a mu­si­cian over the past 15 years, Thomas knows what it takes to en­gage au­di­ences, and he is pre­pared to en­gage them fur­ther with sev­er­al brand new, hard hit­ting yet sooth­ing sin­gles, among them, one he calls Run­ning.

He's call­ing on those who love mu­sic to sim­ply lis­ten with the heart and al­low the mind and body to feel this as he tran­si­tions him­self from be­ing sim­ply an­oth­er To­ba­go is­land artiste, to chart­ing a new road aimed at gain­ing na­tion­al, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion.