It was a quiet 2025 for music producer Michael Eaton, but he plans to change that this year with a consistent release of songs through his Eaton Music label.

He got the ball rolling recently with Fools Rush In, a roots track by Patrick Junior, a veteran singer from St Vincent and the Grenadines.

“I want to put as much music out as I can because we have so much good music sitting on. I want to get dem out so people can hear what we’re doing,” Eaton told the Jamaica Observer.

Fools Rush In is his second released collaboration with Patrick Junior. The first, Zion Gate, came out in 2024.

Follow-up songs by Sydney Salmon — a Jamaican singer based in Ethiopia — and American artiste Emil Troy are also on the books for Eaton Music. Eaton met Salmon through social media in 2022 and they began working together shortly after.

To date, the partnership has resulted in two songs — Trees and Oh Lord. Call on Me by Emil Troy was released in 2024.

Eaton was born in St Ann but raised in Barbican, St Andrew during the 1970s. It was there and then that he discovered roots-reggae and Rastafari which have been his hallmark since he began producing music over 30 years ago.

While those traits drive most of Eaton Music’s upcoming songs, the company’s founder says there is room for diverse sounds.

“We are going to put out a mix of cultural an’ love songs. Wi want to do everything to mek sure di music resonate,” said Eaton.

– Howard Campbell