Spice, recognized for her signature blue hair and daring dancehall persona, is coming into a brand new period and opening up in regards to the near-death expertise that impressed it.
With new singles like “God Don’t Play About Me,” the 43-year-old actuality TV star and dancehall artist, born Grace Latoya Hamilton, is embracing her “smooth woman period” with a touch of gospel following a well being scare in 2022 whereas she was within the Dominican Republic.
On the time, the “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” alum who hails from Portmore, Jamaica, developed sepsis, a extreme response to an an infection that required emergency surgical procedure because it attacked her lungs, liver, and different very important organs.
“My physique was turning into toxic,” she informed Individuals journal in a current interview.
Finally, the “Go Down Deh” singer underwent seven life-saving surgical procedures again in the US, concluding in 2024 together with her last process. By the ordeal, the mom of son Nicholas, 18, and daughter Nicholatay, 14 — whom she shares together with her ex-fiancé — says her relationship with God, and specifically the tune “You’re Greater” by Jekalyn Carr, helped maintain her.
“I’ve at all times had a detailed relationship with God, and my near-death expertise simply introduced me nearer to Him,” she informed the outlet. “The phrase tells you that you must style and see to know that He’s God. My testimony blew me out of the water as a result of even the medical doctors themselves have been calling households to inform them to return say their goodbyes to me. So not even they may imagine the miracle that occurred.”
She added that the brand new tune, “God Don’t Play About Me,” with a music video that includes her in her Sunday Greatest all through, displays and celebrates each her survival and the numerous instances her religion has been her bedrock.
“[The medical scare] introduced me nearer to God and I’ve a extra non secular connection,” she mentioned. “I learn my Bible extra, I worship extra, I pray extra. I’m extra strict with how I present up on the subject of worshiping.”
With “God Don’t Play About Me,” out alongside different new singles like “Smooth Lady Period,” during which she declares a brand new aesthetic and angle no matter who doesn’t prefer it, Spice hopes her evolution evokes religion in others.
“I’ve a big platform and I need my followers to have the ability to rise up and worship God,” the musician informed the outlet. “A part of me desires to see them worshiping God the identical approach they’d rise up and sing any of my different songs.”
