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Tehilah: from a Dominica church choir to the bouyon duet of the year

Published October 20, 2026

Tehilah, whose published full name is Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc, is a singer from Dominica whose soft voice was first documented in an intimate register, Antillean Soul, before crossing into bouyon through a single duet, but a leading one. In 2021, a radio presentation described her as a self taught guitarist formed in her church choir, singing on the stages of her home island. On June 26, 2025, Reo released “La vie doux” with her as feature: the record rose to number four in the Outre-Mer Songs chart according to the Music Story biography published by Qobuz, then it was nominated as Bouyon Song of the Year at the 2026 Caribbean Music Awards. This profile tells those two verified chapters, then states clearly what the public record does not yet hold: no verified solo record so far.

Who Tehilah is: Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc, a voice from Dominica

The artist full name is published by the presentation of the show Thank God It’s Toby, on Shout Radio, whose highlights are hosted by Acast in an episode dated Thursday, January 14, 2021: Téhilah, with the accent her “La vie doux” credit also carries, is named there as Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc. It is the only complete biographical source consulted for this profile, and it is cited here as what it is: a show presentation, written when the artist was presenting her style to the public, not a retrospective notice.

That presentation calls her a singer from the Commonwealth of Dominica, her home island, where she had already performed at many festivals and in quite a few intimate shows. It specifies her training path: singing came to her through the church choir, from a young age, and she is a self taught guitarist. Two traits that matter for understanding what followed: a voice formed in collective and sacred singing, and an instrument practice learned alone, turned toward accompanying her own voice rather than toward band performance.

The same source gives her artist intention in one sentence: her vision is to be a source of self care through her sound. That vocabulary of care, rare in presentations of artists from the bouyon scene, is the published trademark of Tehilah from 2021. Keep it in mind, because it explains the contrast at the heart of this profile: the singer documented for softness and intimacy is the same voice the bouyon public discovered, four years later, on one of the most exposed duets of the 2025 season.

No other source consulted completes that biography: no birth date, no town of origin more precise than the island, no training, no label and no path between 2021 and 2025 is published in the sources opened during this research. This profile therefore fills none of those blanks. It keeps the 2021 portrait for what it is, the documented starting point, and moves on to the only verified recording that links Tehilah to bouyon.

Antillean Soul: the style she claimed before bouyon

The 2021 presentation names the style Tehilah had newly found: Antillean Soul. The label is published as such, and its definition fits in the sentence that follows: she meshes her West Indian roots with her modern soft toned vocals to produce an intimate, captivating listen. It is not a label stuck on afterwards by a journalist, it is the name the presentation gives to the artist new style at the moment she presents it, new found Antillean Soul in the original English text.

Placing that style helps hear “La vie doux” differently. Antillean Soul, as described here, belongs to the family of listening musics: a close voice, guitar, songs built for the small stages and intimate shows the biography mentions on her island. Bouyon, by contrast, was born in Dominica as a music of bands, carnival and fetes, carried since the 1990s by formations such as WCK, then by a generation of producers and session voices. Between the two territories there is normally no obvious gate: intimate listening singers are not the voices bouyon records call in as features.

Yet that crossing is what the rest of the file documents. When Reo, an artist from Colihaut already established as one of the most followed Dominican voices of his generation, releases a duet with Tehilah, he does not ask her to become a fete voice: the record is called “La vie doux”, sweet life, a statement belonging to the vocabulary of softness the artist had claimed since 2021. Bouyon gains a voice from elsewhere, and the singer gains, from a single record, an exposure that years of intimate shows had not given her in the public archive.

This profile lends Tehilah no other record in that Antillean Soul style, because none was verified in the sources consulted: no solo single, EP or album published under her name appears in the sheets opened during the research. Her style is therefore documented by a description, and her bouyon catalogue by one record. The next section details that record, its dates and its published results.

“La vie doux”: the duet with Reo, released on June 26, 2025

“La vie doux” is published under the name of Reo, with Téhilah as feature, by Reo music Ent. The discography sheet published by Qobuz dates the release to June 26, 2025. The title spelling there is in lower case, La vie doux, and the guest credit carries the accent, Téhilah, the same accented spelling as the 2021 radio presentation. The duet therefore brings together two Dominican paths that nothing had joined in the archive: Reo, the bouyon artist from Colihaut, and a singer documented until then for Antillean soul and guitar.

The published result of the record is given by the artist biography of Reo written by Music Story and published by Qobuz: at the end of 2025, Reo scored a chart hit with “La vie doux”, a duet with Tehilah that reached number four in the Outre-Mer Songs chart. This profile cites that result with its attribution, because it rests on that platform editorial text and not on a separate chart publication consulted directly. As stated, it establishes the essential: the duet did not remain an album or session record, it was measured, charted, and noticed beyond the Dominican scene alone.

The circulation of the record in mixes confirms that exposure through another channel. The Bouyon Music 2026 Mix Vol. 1, published by Bouyon Shattaz and mixed by Smokiller, places “La Vie Doux”, credited Reo x Téhilah, as a chapter at 37 minutes 02, among the Dominican novelties of the season: Trilla-G, Khallion, DOVA, Shelly and Signal Band appear in the same tracklist. For a voice with no documented solo record, appearing in the reference mix of the bouyon season, alongside the names carrying the genre in 2026, is a career fact in itself, and it is published here as such.

For exactness, note what the sources do not give on this record: no separate writing credits for Tehilah, no official video confirmed in the sources consulted, and no production detail attributed to one or the other of the two artists beyond the label Reo music Ent. The duet is therefore documented by its date, its label, its reported chart placing and its circulation. That is already, for a single feature, a richer file than that of most guest voices on this site, and it was completed in 2026 by a regional nomination.

Nominated at the 2026 Caribbean Music Awards: Bouyon Song of the Year

On June 10, 2026, the specialist press published the nominee list of the fourth edition of the Caribbean Music Awards. In the Bouyon Song of the Year category, the list published by Caribbean Entertainment Hub and carried by AntiMusic holds eight records: “Bouwey” by 1T1 and Theomaa, “Bye to the Old Me” by Shelly & Signal Band, “La Vie Doux” by Reo & Téhilah, “Put That on That” by Khallion, “Sé Miimii” by Miimii, “Shake Something” by Dirty Dawg Pudaz, “Take Me as I Am” by Trilla G and “Time 2 Grind” by BRG Hollywood. The name of Tehilah appears there as co credit of the record, on the same level as the lead artists of the seven other songs.

That nomination has a precise meaning for this profile. The Caribbean Music Awards are the regional ceremony covering the whole of Caribbean music, from soca to dancehall through konpa and bouyon, and their bouyon category has become the annual barometer of the genre. To see there the name of a singer whose only verified bouyon record is this duet, four years after a radio presentation in an intimate soul register, measures the path travelled by that single recording: from the June 2025 release to the Outre-Mer chart, then to the list of the eight bouyon songs of the year at the scale of the whole Caribbean.

Exactness requires publishing the final result as well. The winners lists of the 2026 Caribbean Music Awards, published after the ceremony, give Bouyon Song of the Year to “Bouwéy” by 1T1 & Theomaa, and Bouyon Artist of the Year to Mr. Ridge. “La Vie Doux” is therefore a nominated record, not a winning one, and this profile writes it in plain words. The nomination remains the landmark fact of the Tehilah file: it officially places her name, as co credit, inside the regional selection of the year for the bouyon genre.

For the reader discovering Tehilah through that nomination, the listening order recommended by this profile is simple: the duet first, “La vie doux”, in the version published by Reo music Ent., then back to the context, our Reo page for the path of her partner, and our bouyon playlist for the seven other sounds of the same nominated season. Between the two, you hear exactly what this profile documents: a soft voice from Dominica, entered into bouyon through the gate of a duet, and kept on the list of the year.

The homonyms not to confuse: Tehillah in the United Kingdom, Tehila between Israel and Hawaii

The name Tehilah attracts confusions that this profile settles explicitly, because search engines mix them. First confusion: an artist named Tehillah, with a double l, is documented by her label Future Youth Records as a creative from the United Kingdom, born and based in the South East of England, graduated in biomedical science in 2017, author of the EP “Still Here” in a disco and dance register. Neither the spelling, nor the biography, nor the repertoire overlaps the Dominican singer: it is not the same artist, and none of her records is claimed here.

Second confusion: an artist named Tehila, without the final h, presents on her official site a singer songwriter path whose family moved from Israel to Hawaii during her teenage years, with a family band past and a career between alternative pop and instrumental music. Here again, the spelling differs, the territory differs and no collaborator overlaps the Dominican file. This profile attributes to her neither “La vie doux”, nor the biography of Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc.

The rule applied is the same as across this site: only the coherent bundle is kept. For Tehilah, that bundle is Dominican from end to end: the 2021 radio presentation names Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc, her island of the Commonwealth of Dominica and her Antillean Soul style; the 2025 credit, Téhilah with the same accent, places her as feature on the duet of a Dominican artist, Reo; the 2026 nomination carries the same duet, Reo & Téhilah. Three sources, three dates, one territory and one name accented the same way: it is that published continuity that grounds this profile, and it excludes the two homonyms above.

What the file does not yet hold, and why this profile appears anyway

The limits of the Tehilah file are unusual and they are part of her story. On one side, her published biography is richer than that of most guest voices on this site: a full name, an island, a training path, an instrument and an artist intention, all published as early as 2021. On the other side, her verified catalogue fits inside a single record, the 2025 duet, and no solo recording under her name was confirmed in the sources consulted, despite searches on the streaming platforms and in the specialist press.

Several explanations are possible and none is decided here: records published under another spelling that the platforms index badly, a stage and intimate concert practice that precedes streaming publication, or a catalogue in preparation after the success of the duet. This profile chooses none of them, because no source consulted documents any of them. It only states the gap, a rare one, between an artist presented publicly as early as 2021 and a first verified recording dated 2025, then leaves the file open to any complete sheet that would one day fill it.

No official account of the artist was verified by opening her page during this research, so this profile links to no social network in structured data. That restraint is the rule of this site: an official link appears only if it was opened and confirmed, and a name as exposed to homonyms as this one deserves more caution, not less. If Tehilah publishes a solo catalogue or a confirmed official account, this page will be completed, dated and corrected like every page on this site.

In the meantime, this profile appears because the central fact is public and verified three ways: a named Dominican singer, a charted duet, a regional nomination. Leaving a hole in the artist index where the co credited voice of one of the eight bouyon songs of 2026 should stand would be another kind of error. The right answer to a one record catalogue is neither borrowing the records of the homonyms nor silence: it is the publication of the record, the biography and the limits, together. To extend the listening, our bouyon playlist and our bouyon Dominica page place that duet inside the full landscape of the genre.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Tehilah?

Tehilah, whose published full name is Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc, is a singer from the Commonwealth of Dominica. A radio presentation of January 2021 describes her as an artist of Antillean Soul style, formed in singing in her church choir, a self taught guitarist, and already active at the festivals and intimate shows of her home island. In 2025, her duet “La vie doux” with Reo brought her into bouyon.

What is the bouyon record of Tehilah?

“La vie doux”, released by Reo with Téhilah as feature, released on June 26, 2025 on Reo music Ent. according to the Qobuz sheet. It is, so far, the only verified bouyon recording of Tehilah in the sources consulted, and no solo record under her name was confirmed by this research.

How did “La vie doux” chart?

According to the artist biography of Reo written by Music Story and published by Qobuz, the duet reached number four in the Outre-Mer Songs chart at the end of 2025. This profile cites that result with its attribution, because it rests on that platform editorial text.

Did “La Vie Doux” win at the 2026 Caribbean Music Awards?

No, and this profile says so clearly, where many pages would settle for the nomination. The record was nominated as Bouyon Song of the Year at the 2026 Caribbean Music Awards, among eight songs, but the winners lists give the award to “Bouwéy” by 1T1 & Theomaa. The nomination of Reo & Téhilah, as co credit, remains the official fact of the file.

Is Tehilah the British artist of the “Still Here” EP?

No. The author of “Still Here” is spelled Tehillah, with a double l, and her label presents her as a creative born and based in the South East of England. The Tehilah of this profile is spelled with a single l, carries the accent on the e in her full credit, Kelsey Téhilah LeBlanc, and her published file is entirely Dominican: radio presentation in 2021, duet with Reo in 2025, nomination in 2026.

Where can I hear Tehilah?

On “La vie doux” by Reo, available on the platforms since June 26, 2025, and in the Bouyon Music 2026 Mix Vol. 1 by Bouyon Shattaz where the duet appears as a chapter. For the bouyon of the same season, hear our bouyon playlist and read our bouyon Dominica page.

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