NESTA, the Jamaica, Queens-based artist with Jamaican roots, returns to his lovers rock song “Worthwhile” with a live garden performance built around his voice and Hector Roots Lewis‘ acoustic guitar. Released via his eyenesta YouTube channel, it removes the studio production and focuses on vocal delivery, the lyric and the movement between Jamaican patois and English.

NESTA began with beat-making and live instrumentation, particularly drums, before friends recognised his voice and pushed him toward singing. His writing and production draw from T-Pain, Sizzla, Damian Marley, Ty Dolla $ign and Sampha, working between roots reggae, contemporary R&B and current production techniques. As a Jamaican-American artist, he gravitates toward lovers rock: the romantic and melodic side of reggae where his vocals sit comfortably.

He has taken that sound to stages including Barclays Center for Planet Brooklyn, CitySplash and SXSW London 2025, demonstrating reach beyond his Queens base. His work links older and newer strands of Caribbean music, studying his influences closely to shape a sound tied to reggae and lovers rock tradition while staying fully present-day.

“Worthwhile” first appeared on Your Love Alone, an EP released in October 2025 via Black Wax & Thrice Cooked, with full band and studio production. The song addresses romantic devotion and intimacy through lines about natural connection, framing physical and emotional comfort as inseparable.

This acoustic take keeps it to voice and guitar, putting NESTA’s phrasing up front. Hector Roots Lewis holds the chords in clipped off-beat upstrokes and brief runs drawn from roots reggae, leaving clear gaps for NESTA’s ad-libs.

Stream and listen to Your Love Alone EP HERE