| About Hoszia Hinds | THE BIOGRAPHY OF HOSZIA HINDS Hoszia Hinds began his journey of singing from as early as 10 years young, he always loved to sing but didn’t want to sing other peoples songs, he spent long evenings, creating and writing his own music to whatever was going on in his head. Hoszia's younger days were days of struggle and hardship, as he tried to maintain and provide for his other 12 siblings, he grew up in the ghetto/projects, which had easily entwined him to his former gangster lifestyle, there were so many negative influences that pushed him down the wrong pathway of life. One day he got into a brutal altercation with another man causing him to be seriously damaged, fainting out unconsciously, he had awaken and found himself with an almost severed hand, and tremendous blood lost in an operation room in the local hospital, while there in the room, he heard a voice spoke to him, at first he thought it was a nurse, but after looking around he saw no one in the room, and fell back in the bed, a few seconds later he heard the same voice spoke to him again which said "Hoszia it's time to serve me the Living God or you will die" when Hoszia regained strength he was startled at the fact that God spoke directly to him and he knew that this was the turning point for his life, he gave his Life completely to the Lord in 1996. Although he felt he made the right choice and became a Christian, the environment around him tugged at his heart, he battled with the mind and the pleasures of this world, but he was determined to be a strong, God-fearing Christian and willed himself to the things of God. He had a desire to do God's work even though he was faced with poverty, he continued on his journey in pursuit of the King of Kings, to know God's purpose for his life. Hoszia saw his wife at age 10 and claimed her to be his, between him and God, he later saw her again at age 14 and said hi to her and he knew in his heart this girl would be his someday, at age 16 he was invited to a church called " Power In The Blood Assembly" to his great surprise he saw this girl again there. Hoszia new that he and this girl was destined together. In January 2002, he married her “Tracy” then 20 years and he was 21 years, he added his first and only child - a Son “Treszia” to his family in 2007, his marriage have grown stronger & loving each day. Hoszia and his family are current members of the "THE PEOPLES CATHEDRAL CHURCH ( www.peoplescathedral.org) under the guidance of Bishop Holmes Williams, Hoszia’s holds the post of YOUTH AMBASSADOR /LEADER for this church. Hoszia is recognized as one of the new breakout artiste from the Caribbean In 2006 Hoszia’s pioneered as a solo artiste and released his first single called ‘ All I Need”, In 2007 Hoszia received his first Nominations from the Gospel Flame Awards as New Artiste of the Year. In 2008 Hoszia released his first Album – “THE COMING OUT”, he produced his first Music Videos- I’m Calling and The Coming Out. Hoszia won Gospel Flame Awards as “MOST IMPROVED ACT”, he was Nominated 2008 for Gospel Music Channel Awards USA - SOUL Category he made it to the top 5 finalist along with other artistes such as :Marvin Sapp, Dewayne Woods, Blind Boys of Alabama, Kevin Lebar. He was Nominated in 2008 Barbados Music Awards as “Gospel Artiste of the year”.In 2009 Hoszia won Flame Awards as “ARTISTE OF THE YEAR, “MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR and “BEST COLLABORATION, following his outstanding performance ministry, he was selected to represent Barbados at the THE BOBBY JONES GOSPEL RETREAT SHOW – Hollywood Florida he ministered ALL I NEED, he shared that stage with other artistes such as: Deitrick Haddon, Canton Jones, Vickie Winans, Byron Cage, Dr Bobby Jones this gave him the opportunity to be featured on THE WORD NETWORK and “FAMILY MAGAZINE” USA. He was Nominated 2009 for Gospel Music Channel Awards USA - SOUL Category he made it to the top 20 finalist. In 2010 Hoszia continued his journey on international waters, he also released his second Album "BREAKING OUT" with several Music Videos "Thirsty", "None Of That" and "Never Say Never". He was nominated and Won 2010 Ensound Music Awards for "Best Caribbean Gospel Album of the Year" In 2011 Hoszia released his third Album ”THE RACE AGAINST TIME” and his music video "Giving Up is Not An Option”. He won Gospel Flame Awards, Artiste of the year, Best Scripture Based Song: Victory, Record of the Year: Breakin Out, Male Vocalist of the Year. Hoszia was also Nominated BMA Awards as "Best Gospel Artiste of the Year”. He was featured by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC.bb) on his Life story for "Blaze The Trail". Hoszia had the opportunity to Minister at 'The Potters House' Texas (Pastor T D JAKES & Pastor FAISON). |
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