Shaggy fans don’t have much longer to wait for new material, as the dancehall veteran told FOX35 that later this month, he will be releasing some new music.

The singer explained that this body of work would be covers of the great Frank Sinatra, and is set for release on May 25.

“Yes, we have a new album coming out with myself and Sting,” Shaggy started.

“We’ve teamed up together. It’s a new album, it’s Sinatra songs in reggae. It’s 10 Sinatra songs produced by Sting, all in reggae, sung by me, and it comes out May 25th and it’s gonna be a blast,” he added.

Shaggy, in explaining how the project came to be, said that it was while both were relaxing amid their 44/876 tour, that Sting, impressed by the likeness of his and Sinatra’ s voice, suggested the project.

“We were on tour, me and Sting doing the 44/876, we were in Norway. We had the day off, rented a boat and he jumped into the water. I was, like, I’m not going into that cold water, I’m Jamaican.”

“So I decided to play some Sinatra and I started to sing to the Sinatra and he popped his head up and was like, ‘Yo Shaggy, that’s your key, that’s amazing, that’s you’. And I kept singing and he kept just, ‘wow it’s amazing how your tone is so similar to Sinatra’s’.”

Shaggy noted however that that discussion was three years old, and it wasn’t until seeing him in Las Vegas recently that the pair went into the studio and held true to what they had discussed.

The reggae icon seems to be on a streak in branching out as, not only will he be releasing a Frank Sinatra cover album, but, earlier this month, the star, after years of being asked, finally entered The Masked Singer competition.

The Masked Singer, which began in 2019, is a platform where popular celebrities go on stage in head-to-toe costumes to conceal their identity while they perform to enthral the audience.

The Boombastic hitmaker, who was dressed in the Space Bunny costume, shared that he did not anticipate the costume’s very large size, a factor which he had reservations about years prior, causing him to turn down the competition multiples times.

However, this time around, Shaggy admitted that Ne-Yo convinced him to take a shot.

“I liked the ears popping up and the eyes going. I thought those were wild factors, I did not anticipate it being as big as it was. When I saw it in person, I was like ‘Wow’, ” he said.

Continuing, he said: “Cuz, on the paper it looks really cute and then it was huge. And then when I put it on, it had some weight on it. Not super heavy, but if you’re running all day singing with it, it would be a bit uncomfortable. So that was a bit challenging.”

In an effort to disguise his distinctive voice, he opted to sing in his regular singing voice, but said his song selection could be used as clues by the judges if they wanted to know who he was.

“If I just sing like my normal singing voice where I used to background… which is why I choose these songs. But you know, I kinda gave it away with a lot of these song choices. These were all clues and I at one point, I was like, this suit is just really heavy, I just wanna get out.”

Shaggy sung Jumping The Line by Harry Belafonte, Now That We Found Love by Heavy D, All Night Long by Lionel Richie and Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me by Culture Club.