You are my Father.

 You are My Father by Jeremiah Gyang:The Meaning Behind the Song.

Howdy! How are you doing today? Great I believe?







 I have decided to go back in time  for a an interesting and beautiful music of the Na Ba Ka crooner. Do you remember him? It is no other person than Jeremiah Gyang. The song currently rolling in my playlist is: You are my father under the album, Black Tape. What makes this song so different?

Grab a chair, get a soft drink and let us cruise together...

The first thing that comes at you is the entrance to the music; the beat. It gives you a feel of western styled movie especially at the  height of a rising conflict like we find in Game of Thrones or like Merlin. Both movies went back in time when civilization is still far from what it is today. So is this song also.

You observe too in the video, the gathering of clouds, a similitude of the kingdom of heaven, the slow but steady rise of plants, trees from the ground as though called forth.  The singer, occupies a high tower overlooking the earth that is forming and taking shape below. Perhaps, to drive home the point that he has been raised to be where the father (God) is since he is now a son.

He acknowledges God as The first one the one who began the beginning. But the  particular line that gets you hooked is where he says:
        
                Its amazing the way you created the light and the darkness cannot comprehend...

Further on, he realizes how great the father's love is and  how God calls him out of slavery. Could this be a pointer to the artiste's dalliance with the contrary path his late father warned him about? Could it also be what  brought about his decline or possibly disappearance from the music scene for some years before a comeback? 

The article  by Teema Goddowell,  dated 4th June, 2020  give credence to the point stated above. I take my cue from the statement of the singer himself:

In 2004, God blessed me with a beautiful album, Na Ba Ka!
In 2005 I signed a ground breaking deal against my father’s advice. This marriage assumed control of my first born child, Na Ba Ka!. Unbeknownst to me, this choice I made was going to end my career as a successful musician, much like a candle in the wind. I presumptuously thought the industry had the morality espoused in the scriptures. How wrong I was!
As a servant of the Most High, lost in a world where I was looking for the treasures that Christ rejected, I started to cast my pearls to the swine, sacrificing what belonged to God, to Satan. All the children that God gave me, I sacrificed them to demons.
The deal I signed was highly promising. The single condition was to bow down in worship, and I was going to receive access and power along with all the kingdoms of the world, and to make me become like God. The tree was really good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise'. 

Like a prodigal son who had come to his senses, the return to the father; is father is of utmost priority. This again buttresses the point I made in my earlier post: Music, Spiritism and its Consequence. There are dangerous ditches  rising and promising  unsuspecting stars in any form of art usually fall victim. The hunger for more, especially when your debut is the song on every lips. There will always be the temptation to throw caution to the wind. After all, the more popular and demand for your creativity, the more money in your pocket.  But this is not usually how the story ends for most artistes. 

Let us move a little further:
...I took an already complete, award winning album, and sacrificed it to Satan, then I didn’t keep my part of the contract. As righteous indignation kicked in, I started to question the morals of my principals. This is very similar to a woman who gets married with the hopes that she can change her husband after, or vice versa. This is the decision I made that took away everything I had from me. I thought my loss would only end in Na Ba Ka, but no. I lost the entire garden of Eden!
All the energy I needed to move on was channeled away from me, and was harnessed to build a machine that would be the constant source of pain for my brethren who are also blinded with ambition, as it is today....

He not only lost the Na Ba Ka album, he lost much more to the point of losing his mind as the statement below reveals:

I went to dine with the devil a young prophet, I came back empty, robbed, and spoiled, with a broken spirit. I lived for years in perplexity, constant depression, and every kind of confusion with no one to comfort me. I, in the mindset of a sheep had been configured to believe that everything that’s said in the media, and on pulpits was the truth. I therefore constantly measured myself by the societal standards. I was always found wanting.
 
And further still he went in this journey to jeopardy:

SIN. THAT WAS MY PROBLEM.
In 2015, there was a cataclysm that changed my life. The scales started to fall off, my eyes opened, then suddenly I started to see that I was dead. I started to realize that I was wearing filthy garments, lain lifeless in a valley of dry bones. Then, I started to say: Woe is me!!!
God reminded me of my father, His servant, who worked with Baba Paul Gindiri. God started to remind me of His words, and God started to comfort me in His word.
Scriptures started to come alive. God INDEED CANNOT be mocked. I brought it all upon myself. I was only reaping what I had sown, but God didn’t recompense me fully according to my works. He dealt with me with mercies.

Despite going through the miry clay of life, he came to, like a man who had been unconscious, finding mercy to rise again. This redemption of his is remarkable and unmistakably the reason behind the song. 

Back to the song. He bows in adoration when he hears the song of Moses the servant of God and seeing the host of heaven bowing down. In the father, he finds life and in him, he is made alive.

Thank you for reading to the end. I will love to know your thoughts in the comment section. Till I come your way.  

I am Yours truly.
Julius Topohozin.