Jesús Álvarez

Jason Alvarez was born in Havana, Cuba, on December 28, 1951, as Jesús Álvarez. He was raised in Cuba, until 1959, when his mother removed him from church, heading to the U.S. Embassy, where they were placed on a freedom flight. While they got to the United States, Alvarez was reared in Newark, New Jersey around other family members in the slums, for a decade. He was part of the band Brother To Brother, playing shows at clubs, where he came in contact with the woman who would become his wife, Gale. He joined Shirley & Company, after his departure from Brother to Brother, where he was their background vocalist, on such hits as "Shame, Shame, Shame". After all this fame, Alvarez was left in a depression caused by financial problems, when he made a suicide attempt, however, it was unsuccessful, for at his wife's urging he became a confessed believer in Jesus Christ. He went from that moment to become an ordained minister on February 20, 1982, when his wife and himself started The Love of Jesus Family Church in Orange, New Jersey, where they now reside. This conversion facilitated Alvarez becoming a Christian artist.