Lettie Law’s latest track is a joyful, fast moving Afrobeats-infused gospel track, “Ever Forward Never Backward Jesus,” that delivers a message of hope.

“Yes,” she said. “A song of hope and encouragement because of what’s going on in the world right now.”

Gospel comes naturally, through the early influence of her parents, and from the Spirit. Her first song came at about age 6. She has amassed about 250 songs over the years.

For “Ever Forward Never Backward,” she said, “I got inspiration, divine inspiration. For real. It has nothing to do with my ability. It’s a song that heaven gave me to help the world to cope.”

When you go through fire
When you go through life’s rough ways
Our Jesus’s still the same
He’ll hold your hands
As He promised
So you will not be burned

She was born in West Africa, the daughter of a Nigerian father and a Cameroonian mother. A grandmother was from Ghana.

“I’m from everywhere.”

She began making music professionally in 2012, but now that her children are grown (her youngest is 21 and in college) she is getting serious about music.

“I haven’t worked it the way I’m working it this year,” she said. “No, I used to have little kids, so my main thing was to make sure that I don’t depend on government assistance to raise them.”

She is an RN working in the neurology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She assists in surgeries on the brain and spinal cord.

It was her oldest son who led her into putting out music back in 2012.

She was making music only for herself. She didn’t think that her music was meant to be heard by anyone else. At the time, she was also going through a massive health crisis.

“I felt like I was dying every single night.” She was so afraid of dying that she took out a huge life insurance policy so that her children would be taken care of. Then her son spoke up.

“My firstborn, he said, ‘Mom, you think you’re dying, right?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ ‘So, all these songs’ — because I have notebooks, piles — ‘all these songs, are you going to leave the world without leaving one or two behind so that people will enjoy it?’”

Immediately, she said, she started getting her songs produced. She put some out in 2013 and 2014 under the name The Sunrise View, suggested by that same son.

“Oh, that boy!” she said. Her music by that name is on YouTube still.

Another thing took immediate effect when she started getting professional about her music.

“The disease, whatever it was, stopped. The feeling that I’m dying — I never had it again.”

But the same son who spurred her into being professional also talked her into trying pop instead of gospel.

“He said, ‘Mom, nobody listens to Christian music, all this Christian music you’re writing and singing. Why not anywhere you say “God,” you put “love.” And I listen.” Listened and did.

 “Oh. That boy,” she sighed, loving and motherly.

Then she met a producer who turned out to be a prophet. They met in a coffee shop to discuss, she thought, producing her music. This was right after she had put out her 10-track, 2018 album Yahweh. She was seeking a producer would help her put out another album.

“He said that I must be thinking that he’s here to talk about producing my music. I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘No,’ that he’s here to give me my last warning. I said, ‘What?!’ He said his mother, since his childhood, calls him a prophet, and he nearly missed this appointment, but it was like he was forced to come to tell me that I should stop changing what the Lord has given me to worldly music.”

He asked her, “Do you have children?” She said “Yes.”

“He said, ‘If you give a gift to one of them, and they decide to give it to your enemy right in front of you, what will you do?’ I was quiet. He said, ‘Well, the Lord told me to come and tell you.’”

And that was that. Gospel music may come naturally, but it also comes divinely, and that’s just the way it is.

Lettie has music on Spotify under the name Lettie-L, which she adopted after dropping The Sunrise View. She is trying to get it all consolidated under Lettie Law.

Some of her music is not gospel, aside from the misadventure with “love” replacing “God.” It comes out more reggae (also an influence in “Ever Forward Never Backward”). When she gets a song, she says, it comes with the music, the sound and the instruments that go with it.

She also writes songs based on what is happening around her. She wrote one song for Nelson Mandela when he was alive, titled “Nelson Mandela,” and another inspired by the tragedy of 9/11, called “USA Strong.” Both are on the YouTube channel for The Sunrise View.

But she was asked another question: “Do you think you were sent into the world to make it better or worse?”

“The answer is, ‘No. I’m here to make it better.’” That also is a message from the Spirit that is in “Ever Forward Never Backward Jesus.”

“The song was inspired for hope and dependence on the Almighty, to cope with everything that is happening around us. There are things where we be, like, ‘Okay, this is out of my hands,’ and we hand it to God, and we cope by that way. That’s what the song is all about. Yes.”

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