JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Teen vocalist puts T&T on the map

by

Nekisha Alexander-Caesar
1054 days ago
20220821
Alyssa Joseph

Alyssa Joseph

Mu­sic is the most beau­ti­ful path­way to one’s soul, and singing for the Lord makes mu­sic even more grat­i­fy­ing. One teenage gospel vo­cal­ist is us­ing mu­sic through min­istry to make her dreams come true. At just 15 years of age, Alyssa Joseph is al­ready a cham­pi­on. She re­cent­ly copped the Ju­nior Grand Cham­pi­on of The World ti­tle at the World Cham­pi­onships of Per­form­ing Art 2022 (WCO­PA). The com­pe­ti­tion fea­tured singers, dancers, in­stru­men­tal­ists, ac­tors, mod­els and a va­ri­ety of artists from over 70 coun­tries.

Alyssa loved singing since she was a child and her par­ents took no­tice of her pas­sion. At the age of four, she was en­rolled in vo­cal train­ing to fur­ther de­vel­op her tal­ent. She took her train­ing very se­ri­ous­ly and was ea­ger to reach a stage where she was com­fort­able with her vo­cal range. She had enough con­fi­dence in her­self to start par­tic­i­pat­ing in small com­pe­ti­tions, even win­ning a few. Alyssa re­leased her first sin­gle ‘Cry for Peace’ at the age of nine. Her sec­ond sin­gle ‘You Fill Me Up’ was re­leased at the age of 12 and was writ­ten by Alyssa. She now has ten orig­i­nal songs.

 The teen vo­cal­ist be­came known for singing gospel, but Alyssa al­so had a de­sire for opera. She re­hearsed and fine-tuned sev­er­al op­er­at­ic pieces, adding them to her reper­toire of mu­sic.

Alyssa Joseph

Alyssa Joseph

Alyssa has al­ways dreamed of per­form­ing on an in­ter­na­tion­al stage, and that dream came true re­cent­ly at the WCO­PA com­pe­ti­tion in Los An­ge­les. She was en­cour­aged to en­ter the com­pe­ti­tion by her moth­er when one of her fans told them about the event. Alyssa’s moth­er looked in­to it and de­cid­ed that she would be a great can­di­date to en­ter. John Michael Thomas helped her pre­pare for two of the songs she per­formed at the com­pe­ti­tion. Four songs lat­er, with a fi­nal op­er­at­ic piece, Alyssa Emerged Ju­nior Grand Cham­pi­on of The World and Di­vi­sion Win­ner for Vo­cal Opera So­lo.

She was sur­prised and elat­ed when her name was an­nounced for the ti­tles, and calls it an ex­pe­ri­ence of a life­time.

The gift­ed vo­cal­ist is de­sirous to con­tin­ue pur­su­ing her dreams of be­com­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al singer and pro­duc­er. She re­minds her­self to keep ground­ed as she grows from strength to strength and in­cludes God in the process. She said when writ­ing new songs, she starts by pray­ing about it so that God will al­low the lyrics and ideas to flow. Then she lis­tens to the beat and cre­ates a sto­ry to fit in­to the beat. Some­times she cre­ates lyrics and fits them in­to the beat. For per­for­mances, Alyssa goes on a dairy-and-oil-free di­et one week be­fore, avoid­ing any ad­verse ef­fects on her voice.

Alyssa Joseph’s trophies, plaques and medals.

Alyssa Joseph’s trophies, plaques and medals.

She has a vig­or­ous re­hearsal sched­ule but still takes time to en­joy some of her hob­bies such as danc­ing, craft­ing, act­ing, cook­ing and cos­me­tol­ogy.

Alyssa is in­spired by Gospel Artists Tasha Cobbs, Sinach and Whit­ney Hous­ton. These renowned women with pow­er­ful voic­es have in­spired her to write pow­er­ful songs with a pos­i­tive mes­sage. She wants her words and her ac­tions to be an in­spi­ra­tion to her peers.

Her mes­sage to young peo­ple is “Go for your dreams and work hard be­cause hard work pays off. I’ll al­so ad­vise to keep your fo­cus as that is the name of one of my sin­gles, Keep Your Fo­cus. You have to fo­cus on your dreams and don’t al­low any­thing to dis­tract you and shift your fo­cus. Don’t al­low neg­a­tiv­i­ty to dis­tract you.”

Alyssa wish­es to thank all of her sup­port­ers, es­pe­cial­ly her mom. Al­so, spe­cial thanks to her spon­sors, Ever­last­ing Vows and Pe­tra’s Hair and Cloth­ing. She notes the best is yet to come and is hop­ing to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go again on more in­ter­na­tion­al stages.

artiste


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored