The multi-talented music producer, singer and songwriter most recently has co-produced on Jah Cure’s newest album “The Cure” which has cracked the top spot on the U.S. Billboard Reggae Album Chart.

“The Cure” is a 13-track set that is described as a return to roots reggae and lover’s rock with R&B and pop-fused elements. “The Cure” features recent hits like chart-topping John Legend cover “All of Me”, “Rasta”, “That Girl” and “Life We Live” as well as brand new singles “Show Love”, “No Friend of Mine”, “Made in California” and “I Surrender”. In fact, Sketch produced the album’s first single “Life We Live” which he said is “blowing up and doing pretty good”.

This most recent “feather in his cap” Sketch said is just the beginning on the road that he said would be Sketch’s journey. And he’s about to release his own single “Paradise” on which Jah Cure will be featured.

“The Jah Cure thing is the beginning,” said Sketch. “I’m just going to keep going from here.”

Sketch was introduced to music at age five. He was surrounded by it through his father and brother, but he also gives credit to his mother Jennifer’s family. From his grandmother to his aunts, he said they all played piano and were musically involved in the church.

“I grew up surrounded by people who were into music — singers and piano players — people who had some kind of talent,” he said.

“Watching both my parents and my big brother do their thing was all training towards leading up to become who I am now.”

He simply could not escape the music gene.

The 26-year-old said credits his father with introducing him to music. Sketch started out singing and having his dad teach him the guitar. He eventually branched off into learning to play the piano, and says he fell in love with tickling the ivories. Sketch still plays the piano in his church today. He can also do his thing on drums.

According to his mother, her son’s love of music started from he was in the womb, where she said he would leap at the sound of music, especially his father’s voice as he serenaded his mother on the acoustic guitar. During his gestation period, his parents satisfied their unborn child’s appetite for music by surrounding him with music. To get his vocals right, he remembers having to learn to control his voice and to arrange it which he said took a few years, but at age 14 things began to sync up for him.

In 2012 he released his first single “My Candidate” — a song about love that is R&B fused with Caribbean elements which to date is still his most successful single. Sketch has not put out any albums as yet, but he released a 12-track mixed tape of original songs that a few years back that also did pretty good on the local market. He also entered two songs into the recent Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival Music Masters Competition — “Rushin’ Down the Road” and “Wine Like a Champion” — songs that were well received but didn’t earn him a money slot.

The genre he pegs himself into would encompass R&B, Pop and hip hop, but he always seeks to fuse the sounds with the Bahamian vibe and culture to give it the groove he’s after. The biggest crowd he has performed in front of has been at home at Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival. Internationally he’s taken to the stage at an underground club in New York. As he continues on his musical journey, Sketch said for him no music, means no life.

“Music for me is 24/7.”

Performing before a crowd filled with energy and excitement fuels his soul.

While he loves the music and performances of Michael Jackson, the Chris Brown’s and the Omarion’s, Sketch says his father and brother were major influence in his life.

“My father is a major musical influence because he was the one who taught me basically everything. I learned from my dad and my brother. They both taught me lessons — how to play, to learn the game. They were my guidance. They showed me the way and paved the way,” he said.

Covering all aspects of the music game, Sketch says when he views the future he sees a “great artist and producer”. And that he’s looking forward to having his own label, The Drawing Board, representing all genres of artists, with his own stable of artists and team.

“I want people to know that I’m extraordinary,” said Sketch. When he performed in New York he said people told him that his performance reminded them of a reincarnation of Michael Jackson in a Caribbean way or a male Rihanna. Growing up he said he owned all of Jackson’s albums and danced and sang to every song he made.

While Sketch has a wealth of experience under his belt having worked with artists like Keri Hilson, Ivan and Carvin, Jerry Wonda and Jah Cure, he says he knows he has a long way to go to become the Sketch he knows he can be — an international household name. The second-generation musician believes he is predestined to be one of music’s greats as he says he is one-of-a-kind and God inspired, and has the pedigree behind him in his father and brother who he said maximized their potential in music to become success stories.