Shammah Featured In #MusicLov3rz Magazine May!
As a Christian rapper, I am grateful to God to have completed my first album years ago. My newest album “Kingdom Come” was recently released and is available now on all major digital music platforms.
My journey began in Guyana, South America where I was born, before migrating to New York City in 1981. It was at the age of 20, that Jesus saved me. This is a tender time for a young man, to give up partying, chasing girls, porn (images) and the love of this world. Jesus Christ delivered me from deep involvement in the worship of false gods, due to the occult that I grew up in through my ancestry.
In America, I was very impressed and in love with the streets and the things it seemed to offer, but the Lord saved me before I ever went deep. I was never a gangster or drug dealer; God simply allowed me to grow up in the urban community to learn its language (knowing that He would save me and use me to communicate His glorious gospel to it). I’ve seen so many friends and acquaintances (from my old life) suffer, and even die untimely deaths. Some were murdered by gunshot, others stabbed, while many suffered from depression, drug abuse and even suicide.
I was supposed to die by abortion in 1977, but my mother told the devil, “No! this is my only son.” This is why I love to address things like suicide, abortion, drug use and gang violence in my music. All of these things are the effects of sin and I believe that only Jesus’ death on the cross and resurrection is the solution to sin. (Although I’ve rapped at many churches, my heart has also been blessed to minister to young people at places like Teen Challenge and Rikers Island prison. I do believe that Christianity must go beyond the four walls on Sunday.)
In 2010, I married my only wife Chawntell, who bore me three beautiful children (including a pair of twins). Marriage has not been a walk in the park, but God has kept us together by His great love. It is a blessing to have the support of my wife and children, as we seek to fulfill the ministry that God has entrusted to us. That is, to tell the world that Jesus saves and through His name we have eternal life.
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#MusicLov3rz: #MusicLov3rz May 2020 - Independent Music Worldwide
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