No one watching Sasha on stage with Turbulance performing Natty Pon The Frontline would guess that inside she was deeply dissatisfied with the direction her life was going. The girl who grew up in a Christian home, mastered the art of hiding her true feelings, put her reservations aside and went to make one hit after another with songs such as I’m Still In Love With You, We’ve Got The Love, Don’t Wanna Be Alone among others.

There was no big revelation, no flashing lights, nothing dramatic… but Sasha knew it was time to stop the pretence and get back to the root.

These days she doesn’t have to deal with the shaky knees, butterflies in the belly or the niggling fear that she will not get the chance to make it right with her soul.

Three years ago Sasha embraced Christ as her Lord and Saviour, and she will be the first to tell you that it hasn’t been an easy road, but it is a decision she doesn’t regret.

“Christianity is about sacrifices, having a choice but choosing to do the right thing,” the artiste who now goes by the name Sista Sasha stressed.

No one knows about daily choices than the woman who was given three months by a close fellow artiste to backslide. According to her when she just got saved she received a lot of lucrative offers to do her old songs, “but my conviction is so strong that even if God forbid I had nothing, I would prefer to live under a mango tree than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”

Since her conversion Sista Sasha has seen many miracles in her life. Looking back she remembers in the early days when she just got saved her faith was tested as she literally had nothing.

“My finances were non existent and I remember back in the day in the midst of my hype I would tear up statements from some record labels, saying I wanted cash not statements. Little did I know I was tearing up some cheques until that day when I cried out to God saying, Lord you can’t let them laugh at me, you said you’d provide for me,” Sista Sasha related adding that shortly after her heartfelt plea she got a phone call from her mom.

“My mother told me she got a phone call from the record label saying they were going through their records and I have a few uncashed cheques…who could it be but God, he spared that money that I could have it then,” she stated.

Now going three years strong in her walk of faith Sista Sasha is resolute about her commitment.

She is now in the process of recording tracks for her gospel album Chosen as well as finding time to visit schools, and other churches spreading the good news of Jesus’ love. As Sista Sasha puts it, “I want them to see and know that if I can do it, they can too.”

Last June the mother of three wrote another chapter in her life when she got married to “a future minister”.

“He is very supportive, he has been up and down in the studio with me and is just there for me,” she shared her face lighting up with a smile.

A member of the Bethel Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church located in Ocho Rios, Sasha says Bishop Ogarth Mckoy has been a real inspiration to her in building and maintaining her faith.

Born in Kingston Sasha relocated to New York with her family at the age of five. At that time, music played a major role in Sasha’s life as it was an active pursuit of her mother and all her four brothers.

Growing up, she sang in the church choir, and gained valuable experience when she did a solo stint at a precocious age eight in a Jamaican gospel festival. She wrote her first rap at 11, and as a student at August Martin High School, the young teen first performed professionally at Brooklyn’s Biltmore Ballroom, modeling herself after such childhood idols as rap’s pioneer female act, SaltNPepa, as well as Jamaican female toaster Shelly Thunder.

Sasha got her break with the single Dat Sexy Body, composed on a variation of the Bookshelf riddim which was later remixed with famous reggaeton artist Ivy Queen.

The single was released by Island on the Bogle compilation alongside tracks by established stars Buju Banton and Papa San. Her track was picked as a standout by stateside DJs, and it has played for literally years in the hiphop underground. Sasha began to tour the world at the tender age of 16 performing in locations from New York to Africa to the European continent.

In the heights of her career, Sasha has given it all up for the exciting journey of spreading the gospel through her music.