Favored Ace Rededicates Life to Christ: Dancehall Gospel Singer Leaves Secular Music

His second song was starting to trend, and that was when the encounter came. Dominic Pitterson, then performing under the name Dxmx Ace, says he was asked to sell his soul and to stop speaking about God or Jesus in his songs. He does not name who made the request, and the Jamaica Observer, which interviewed him, does not say either.

What he does say is plain: realising how dark the industry was, he decided to give his life to Christ and sing for him. He changed his name, and he changed his music.

He now performs as Favored Ace, a gospel deejay from Portmore, St Catherine, in Jamaica, making dancehall gospel music. The 21-year-old former student of Bridgeport High was born Dominic Pitterson, the Jamaica Observer reports.

He is now studying interior design and architecture at Daytona State College in Florida. He has been making heads turn with his dancehall gospel music over the past two years, the Observer says, and his most recent song is called Straight Jesus.

Favored Ace Dancehall Gospel Straight Jesus Rededication

"Well, it's not a topic that I really talk about a lot. But what I will say is that after my second song began to trend I had an encounter, and I was asked to sell my soul and not speak about God or Jesus in any of my songs," he told the Jamaica Observer in an interview published on 1 November 2026. "And, realising how dark the industry was, I decided to give my life to Christ and sing for him."

The claim about being asked to sell his soul is his own account, reported as such. No other source in the reports read for this article confirms the encounter, and no person or company is named in connection with it.

Pitterson entered the music scene three years ago, the Observer reports. His music targets non-Christians, a choice he defends in both interviews.

"I believe that's the entire purpose of the gospel; to spread it and win souls. If I'm only singing for Christians then I'm not really doing anything for the cause," he told the Observer.

That choice has brought him criticism. His sound is close to mainstream dancehall, and some listeners have compared his style to that of dancehall artiste Najeeriii, the Star reports. "I am trying to include what I know my generation would be pulled by and they will say he is just like me but singing about God," he told the Star.

Dominic Pitterson Baptised Again at 20 Portmore Jamaica

Pitterson grew up in the church, the Star reports. He sang in his church choir as a boy and often took the lead. He first got baptised at around age eight or ten, and then he got baptised again when he was 20, he told the Star.

The two reports spell his first name differently: the Observer spells it Dominic, and the Star spells it Domnic. This article uses Dominic, following the Observer's spelling, and notes the Star's variant rather than hiding it.

His renewal, he told the Star, came after he began questioning his direction and felt a constant pull to return to his faith. His family was divided in its support of his musical pursuits at the time, the Star reports. His mother, who made sure he attended church every Sunday while growing up, watched quietly, while his father supported his movement.

What pulled him back was memory. "Little after I first got baptised, I remember a lady came to me and my grandmother and just said that God said that I'm going to preach the gospel when I get older," he told the Star. He considered several other ways of spreading the gospel before discovering Christian rap, which helped him make the move from secular music to Christian music.

Temptation, he says, has not stopped. "Of course, temptation is an ongoing thing, and that's why the Bible says you have to pick up your cross daily because you must fight temptation every day," he told the Observer.

The biggest lesson since he gave his life to Christ, he said, is about grace for everyone. "That we are all sinners, no matter who sinned more. Between someone who killed a person and someone who stole a pencil, they all fall under sin in God's eyes, and we are all free to get his grace if we want it."

In Straight Jesus, his most recent track, he sings "Straight Jesus til mi drop death, mi a dancehall Christian to mi last breath," the Star reports. The line is his answer to the critics in one breath: the beat stays, the message changes, and the audience he is singing for is the one that would never press play on a traditional gospel song.

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Favored Ace is still at the start of the road he chose, with one new song, a new name and a classroom in Daytona. Whether dancehall gospel reaches the listeners he is aiming for is the question his next songs will answer, one listener at a time, and a young christain artist from Portmore will be singing them.

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