Recording Artiste Charly Black strongly believes that artistes can help reduce domestic violence by spreading positive message through their music.

International Recording Artiste Charly Black strongly believes that artistes can do a lot more to help reduce domestic violence by delivering positive messages through their music.

Charly Black latest single entitled "Domestic Violence", addresses the issue of gender-based violence.

“Artistes can help in many ways — we can go out and keep campaigning and meetings, but the most important part is to send a positive message in the music. 

Carly Black says that since December 2019, I have been receiving a lot of sad, disturbing news about these domestic violence circumstances, and I want to send my condolences to all those people who lost their loved ones as a result of domestic violence. 

Many incredible artistes have discussed the issue but mostly men, especially in Jamaica, don't listen to certain kinds of songs. However, I see it relevant to send the positive message in my music, even though it may not be a number one song or even played by disc jocks, but it should be our priority, number-one message for the country,” 

Carly Black latest single entitled "Domestic

Violence" produced by Jermaine “Crawba Genius” Henry on the Crawba Productions label, and was released in November 2019.

Charly Black stated “I wrote my Domestic violence song years ago, and approximately one and a half years ago, I got the instrumental from Crawba and I released the song last year. I am just expecting that the message will reach the minds and hearts of the people and resonate within them".

There have been various highly publicized incidents of domestic killings. There was a murder/suicide in Portmore St. Catherine is involving a Jamaica Defense Force Corporal and his common-law wife. The soldier, Doran McKenzie, is believed to have chopped his 34-year-old common-law wife, Suzanne Easy, to death, then take his own life.

Another case at a food store on the South Race Course Road in Mandeville involved a 30-year-old man, Andre Bromfield, who was charged with murder following the shooting death of a woman.

There was also a stabbing death of a woman in St Elizabeth by her lover last week.

A young boy, Galen Buchanan, was allegedly killed by the estranged lover of his mother. His body was found in the Kingston Harbour.

According to the Jamaica Women's Health Survey (2016), one in every four Jamaican women has experienced physical violence by a male partner. Many of these women are mothers, whose children are watching and listening to horrendous acts of violence that should never be a part of their childhood.

“We all have a role to play to stop domestic violence, we can only do that if we raise awareness and show people that there is a better way of cleaning up the music and start to spread some positive message in the especially most of the Jamaican recording artistes".