I remember the first instrument I ever laid my hands on . It was a small Sony keyboard, about two octaves long that my dad purchased for me after much manipulation and I treasured it with my whole heart. It was always my escape from the troubles of teenage hood and my growing up years are filled with beautiful memories of song writing and the love for music.
When I do get to speak about music as a career, people often ask me how songs come to my heart. Well, sometimes it could be a melody that refuses to go away, sometimes when am on the piano or guitar I will hear the music in my soul. Other times it's a bird that sings I don't know whether that counts as plagiarism but music is all around us, you cannot avoid the rhythm of life, neither can you ignore it.
Music is like a drug- it takes you to a place where no one and nothing can. It entangles all your senses and emotions taking you captive, that you will have to keep going back for a fix.
It was like a dream to me when God gave me the song "Oh My Child". I wrote this song more than ten years ago on that very same keyboard, and till today it is one of my favorite songs off my album. I think the reason being that it came out of a place of deep, sincere trust to God. It is not tainted by my adulthood experiences, or my many doubts and grievances towards God. I think if I wrote it today, it would sound totally different. It is so childlike that everytime I play it back to myself, I want to be that child again. That child who believed that everything in life is pure and good. That when you meet someone on the streets you can shake their hand without fear of being drugged and robbed. Where did those days go sigh!!!
Oh My Child is a break up song. Not the conventional type, because in this song, it is the actual voice of God. He speaks of wonderful times spent with his loved one's and like any jilted lover asks why things have changed. In this song is the raw emotion and vulnerability of a God who wants us all to himself. It is a passionate appeal to hear Him and come back to His love......Just thinking about it makes me emotional. God is no longer the dictating and hard father who is displeased with us but is so ready to lay down everything He is so that we can have it all.....
This song changed my life forever and I am eternally greatful that God shared a bit of his heart and heaven with me....
For a snippet of this song listen here :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BALvhxons8
