Ok so my journey with Nino began exactly last year around this time. I had just given birth to Fadzai. I was grieving my ex husband, and praying that one day he would come back to me and his children and leave the Sex Offender Walter Masocha Cult. I even wrote him an email, which he gave to his Dad Walter Masocha to use as his evidence during the trial, I know, pathetic and almost unbelievable, but hey thats the power of a cult I suppose. Anyway, I was at home one afternoon, my dear friend Linda next to me nursing new born Fadzai, and my inbox flashed, It was a message from Pauline Long, "Do you want to come to the BEFFTA's. It would be good for you to network, let me know".
I read the message out loud to my friend, ummm I had just literally given birth, my baby was just a few days old, I was still feeling rather fat and ugly, didn't feel like dressing up and attending an award show, but something inside me gushed with excitement. I wanted to go.
"But what about Fadzi?" My friend asked...
"Ummm I will go with her...she goes everywhere with me...she's my baby"
The very next day my health visitor confirmed it by encouraging me to go to the BEFFTA's. She was a beautiful spirited woman from Ghana, who had been reading my blog and could not believe I was under her care. "Go to the BEFFTAS", she said, "You are a beautiful young talented woman, forget your ex husband, hes under a spell of his pastor. He doesn't deserve, you, you will meet one person at the BEFFTAs who will change your life"...my health visitor told me, very confident at her word, she is one of the most powerful women in my life I have ever met, thanks to Fadzi. Well when she prophesied and said I would meet someone at BEFFTA who would change my life, I thought she meant a business person, maybe I would network with some business people and an opportunity would arise I thought. Love was most definitely the last thing on my mind...For networking and for just letting my hair down, I decided to attend the BEFFTAs.
So the day arrived, got my hair done, got my nails done, I chose not to wear any make up at all, I just chose to look just the way I am, plain. I took my baby Fadzi with me, and my friend Linda came with me helping me nurse the baby. We got there like an hour late, but as we walked in, there was a man standing on stage, about to perform and open the show. We were looking for seats when suddenly he began to sing. I just froze at the sound of his voice. It was without a doubt one of the most captivating sounds I had ever heard, his voice demanded my attention. I mean my uttermost attention. I stopped. It was as though time had paused. It was something I had never heard, like the sound of an untouched drum...I had never heard a black man sing opera before. In fact I had always found opera music rather English and irrelevant to the black man. But that was the moment my mind changed about opera music. No piece of music had ever touched my soul like that before. Not even gospel or Christian music. My eyes welled up, I had goosebumps, I felt so emotional and was taken to another realm...even though he wasn't singing English, it was a language I didn't understand, but I felt like I could understand every word. I felt like he was singing to me, just for me to heal my broken heart...It was the sound of an untouched drum. My heart melted...
The day I met Nino
He finished singing, the audience was equally blown away, actually not equally as me, but they were mesmerized by his powerful voice. I realized I had been standing the entire performance. I wiped my tears and found somewhere to sit, my life was definately never going to be the same again. The rest of the night at BEFFTAs was just awesome, as I met amazing people and Fadzi stole the show with her captivating new born beauty and aura, strangers came upto her and prophesied that she would change the world one day... but nothing was as awesome as hearing Nino sing, because he had touched my very soul. To cut the long story short, the next few days after BEFFTAs Nino sent me his version of Conte Patiro Time To Say Goodbye. I played the song everyday in my house for 7 days even the children were singing the words. The song healed me, it delivered me from my ex husband. The man who had sang so powerfully to my heart so powerfully on stage was the man who had healed my broken heart, taught me to say goodbye to my ex husband, goodbye to my old life, and he introduced me to a new life of love and laughter
One life lesson Nino has taught me is to laugh.
Nino is quiet and very soft spoken when he is in public, but behind closed doors hes the funniest person you can hang out with. I used to hear women say I want a man who makes me laugh, and I used to find that statement so rather ridiculous, because I never used to laugh, and didn't know the value of laughter in life. Today I consider laughter a gift from God, and Nino taught me to just laugh. He makes me laugh. I laugh so hard my ribs hurt. God knows I needed that after a hell of a life I had with the Musuka family, I didn't even know how to laugh anymore.
There is a touching griping story behind Nino's stick...
This weekend Nino, who can sing in 7 different languages, will be launching his first concert, An Untouched Drum. I am so honored to be part of it. It is the sound of an Untouched Drum...
2 comments:
Sad that Shingi left his family for Kanda, but God has shown you there is light at the end, happy to see you have found someone Jean powerful testimony.
Deep Deeper Deepest Baba
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