Joshua Kesler

About Joshua Kesler

Joshua Kesler's passionate debut ‘Lift Him Up’ fuses the inspirational sounds of Gospel with Reggae. As a singer, songwriter, and minister at London’s Ruach Ministries he regularly leads the congreg Joshua Kesler was born in London England in 1972. Born to Jamaican parents, his heritage was destined to have a direct impact on his musical abilities seen later on in life.

Joshua grew up in an environment where Christian values and principles were applied and as a result was sent to Sunday school every Sunday without compromise with his older brother. Joshua's parents felt it was important that their children had a strong Christian foundation as living in the community of Brixton came with its social challenges even back then.

One of the things that kept the Thomas household happy was the different genres of music played via the airways or records played via the 'gram'. The music predominately played was reggae (expired link). John Holt, Dennis Brown to name but a few. Joshua's Mum would sing along, not knowing that her singing would be the inspiration that would stir the gift of singing in her son. It was in Joshua's early years that he began to sing and share his gift in the presence of family members who would encourage him to sing, however his gift of singing did not materialise until he was much older.

In 1993 Joshua started to attend church regularly and began to take h