For most of her career, Shemana Dixon has written and recorded songs with a social message, but she longed to do something different. Something romantic.

She shows her amorous side on Fully Committed, a jazzy reggae song released in February by producer Gilbert “Gilly” Walters’ Trainline Records.

“From a vocal perspective, and from a topic kind of concept perspective, it shows a more vulnerable side of me. But I was really making the effort to do a love song, to do more love songs,” said Dixon.

While she is contantly writing, Fully Committed was composed in the recording studio, shortly after Dixon first heard the music.

According to the Atlanta-based artist, everything came together smoothly.

“I did have a concept in mind that I was playing around with. I knew I wanted to do a love song. I was playing around with melodies, but it was when I went into the studio to do the recording, that’s when I actually wrote the song,” she disclosed.

Fully Committed is the lead single from Dixon’s first EP, scheduled for release this summer.

The daughter of famed keyboardist Pablove Black (of Studio One and Jimmy Cliff fame), she has been active musically since the late 1990s, making her debut as a backup singer.

As a solo artiste, Dixon has released a number of songs, including Chant Down Babylon and No More Time to Waste.

She is also an actress who has appeared in Power Game II — A Reggae Musical: Believe, a gender-driven theatre production written by Jamaican Ettosi Brooks.