Currently enjoying the admiration that comes with a successful album that brought her back into the charts, Nadine Sutherland's name keeps calling far and wide. For sometime prior to 2007, her name didn't resonate the way it used to for example, when her 1995 Action, in tandem with deejay Terror Fabulous, had an enormous impact on the Billboard Pop Chart where it was registered at number 39.

Last year, her album Call My Name topped the South Florida Reggae Album chart and has been inching its way towards the Billboard Reggae Album Top Ten chart with a recent two-point rise to number one

Then, for 12 years, Nadine Sutherland was musically missing in action, until May of last year when she began creatively seducing everyone who has an ear for music, with perhaps her most critically-acclaimed album to date, Call My Name.

The response to her musical enticement has been overwhelming, and has so far showed no sign of slowing down. Since she dropped her Eight76 Records set 10 months ago, Nadine Sutherland's name has been calling on the Billboard Chart for the first time since her noteworthy Action over a decade ago.

Last year, Call My Name topped the South Florida Reggae Album chart and has been inching its way towards the Billboard's Reggae Album Top Ten chart with a two-point rise at number 12. The album's first single, Big Tingz, has also made it to the South Florida charts and the New York's Reggae Singles chart.

With 2008 a mere three months old, the former child prodigy is off to a fantastic start. Already, Nadine Sutherland's name has been called for two Canadian Reggae Music Awards. The popular cut, Big Tingz, has been nominated for Best Reggae Single International, while her Call My Name album, produced by Kenroy 'Yah Breeze' Archibald, is up for Best Reggae Album in the International category.

"Call My Name opens up doors for me now, you see what I'm saying, it makes me very current again in the music industry," admitted Nadine Sutherland.

"When I did the launch (for Call My Name), I knew it was a good album... now it made the Billboard Charts, number one in South Florida, made all of the major reggae charts top 10. I just heard that it got nominated for International Reggae Album of the Year at the Canadian Music Awards and they're giving me an award of merit for my contribution to reggae music. I kinda feel a sense of empowerment, because I stepped out with a relatively small and a new company, y'know. Eight76 is an independent outfit, and I just collaborated with them and stepped out," said the former teen queen from the Tastee Talent Contest who now judges the Digicel Rising Stars competition.

Explaining that the songs on the album represent a retrospective look into her life at a time when she was facing some daunting challenges, one of reggae's youngest veterans, who also scored with songs like Young One Like Me, Babyface, Until, Starvation, Wicked and Wild, and her Garnet Silk tribute, A Pair of Wings, spoke about how she found refuge in her music and possessing the inner strength to forge ahead.

"On Call My Name, I wrote most of the songs and I think that I was very authentic in what I was feeling. A lot of people were saying to me, you have to deal wid certain tings, mi sey mi nuh feel that right now.... me certain sey weh me going through, other people go through and I wrote the album from that perspective ....

"I was in a space where I went through a very serious spiritual time. My going out diminished significantly, very, very low profile . I just felt like sitting down and spending time with myself. I refused all invitations to go out . I just cut myself off from everything."

Nadine Sutherland chuckles quite often throughout this interview, and one such moment came when she said: "The journey has been interesting, challenging, I was forced to grow up, in some capacity I still think I'm socially inept from the fame, God knows. It's just funny, I can laugh at it now, because I'm more secure in myself and I'm discovering a lot of stuff now that never was discovered because I've been in a fish bowl since I was 11. And that is a reality I have to face about myself, and just see the ramifications of all that and me as a person, and yu nuh, just trying to understand that..... for my life just presented itself to me, with everything that came with it, and I had to go through and deal with it.... no matter whatever slander, kind of just like go into myself, that was just my journey."

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