Bermudian Chelsea Nisbett, granddaughter of Rev. Canon Thomas Nisbett, has been delighting church audiences since she was a little girl.

But this weekend, the beautiful young woman is more than excited as she launches her debut album, “New Beginnings”, at a special release party that is to be held at the Vineyard Family Ministry Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Her grandmother, Mrs. Winifred Nisbett, said: “We’re very excited because she’s been singing since she was a child.”

She also shared of Chelsea’s deep love and commitment to Christ.

This May, Chelsea will be heading to North Africa, to a country that is traditionally closed to the Gospel with a group from Campus for Christ, which is a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada. The group will focus on language study and on developing friendships with the students they meet.

In a prayer letter Chelsea sent out to friends and family, she wrote: “Humanity’s deepest need is to have a personal relationship with Christ.”

Chelsea began singing publicly more than ten years ago as a part of the Young Musicians programme at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in New Brunswick, and has given live performances across the Atlantic Canadian provinces and in Ontario, Bermuda and Brazil.

The young woman comes from a musical background. Her grandfather, who was Bermuda’s first black Anglican minister, was a member of the a cappella group, The Nisbett Brothers in the 1940s and 1950s.

Chelsea hopes that the album will inspire those around her to be: “People of hope, people of Faith and people of action.”

“I guess it’s my background in the church that causes me to want to inspire listeners toward a message of hope,” Ms Nisbett said. “My band and I are here to tell anyone who will listen that you can have faith and have fun at the same time.”

All of the songs on the album, with the exception of her rendition of John Newton’s, Amazing Grace, were written by her.For more information on Chelsea, visit her website at www.chelseanisbett.com.