Commitment song is new single from Eastbourne singer and A&E staff nurse

Kelvin Ossai, singer-songwriter and staff nurse in the A&E department at Eastbourne District General Hospital, offers a commitment love song as his latest single.
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Kelvin Ossai

Be is a song which has been a long time coming, he says – a song which means a lot to Kelvin as he celebrates his first wedding anniversary this month with his wife Ruth.

“Be is a love song that expresses all that a lover wants to be to their special one. It is a song of commitment, an affirmation of love, and of course, it will give you good vibes. It is a commitment song for somebody, for your lover, your wife, your partner, your husband.

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“I wrote it quite a while ago. I was hoping to do an EP but because of lockdown, I really couldn’t work on the project so I decided to release this now. This month is our wedding anniversary – our first anniversary.”

As for work at the moment: “Things are getting better. It has been quite hectic because of the whole pandemic, but the hospital has been very supportive to their staff, very helpful. There is a lot of support and encouragement.

“I haven’t really worked on the red zone area because of the African, black race risk factor.”

But he remains confident for the future – even though there are signs of increasing infection nationally.

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“I am not really worried because I know that we are able to cope. We are still carrying out the whole hand-hygiene precautions and PPE, and the good thing about work is that if you are working, you don’t really see the impact. We have the PPE and we have the training.

“Nursing is my calling. It is my job to care for people. Music is important to me as part of what I am, and for diversionary therapy at the moment it is a huge part of my life. We are not going on shows, we are not going on gigs. But music and nursing still go hand in hand to make the person that I am.

“But everyone is quite frustrated (at not being able to play gigs), but we have just got to tackle what is happening at the moment with the COVID. When we do get back to normal and almost normal, you have got to hope that gigs will start coming back.

“I think I will be reflecting in my music on the pandemic, on the loneliness, on the people that were shielding and couldn’t see loved-ones because of the pandemic, the children that couldn’t see their parents because they were in an at-risk group, the birthdays that people haven’t been able to celebrate. I am going to look into that in my music. But for the moment I am going to be focusing on the previous songs – and on also on shooting some videos.”

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God, love and people have always been his triple inspirations in his music throughout, says Kelvin, who moved from Nigeria to Eastbourne late last year to take up his job.

“I have been into music since childhood. I was in a children’s choir at church and moved to secondary school and was in a school choir. And when I moved to university (in Nigeria) I took part in choirs and became the choir music director.”

He released his first single some years ago – and moved to the UK to start work in Eastbourne last December: “The NHS was looking for nurses because of the shortage, and I realised there were better opportunities for me for my career in an advanced medical system and for academic studies. I only just moved here and there was the lockdown.”

Kelvin’s music can be found on Spotify and iTunes.

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