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Yes Sammy 🙌🏾🎉🎊🇬🇾🙏🏽

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I've been a solo artist since 2012.

I've seen the highs and felt the lows of being a Guyanese artist. Of being a Christian singer. There are too many stories to tell.

I'm blessed to have a country that has, and continues to support me. It's tangible. Guyana rocks with me to the end.

But Guyana is just Guyana and even tho I've seen successes as an artist that many others like me are waiting to walk into, I've always felt like I was stuck in a fence. And that, is the MOST frustrating feeling an artist can have - to know to yourself that u make good music, and it not have the impact that you know it can have.

I pour my soul into my music, and It's only the genuine love for this craft, and the conviction that God wants me here, that has me here still, six albums in. Six.
Otherwise I'd take up some office job, or migrate or something.

Earlier in the year, I sat with some colleagues and one of them told me I needed to change my sound.

Somebody told me I need to take my hand off of production and let people write for me.

All kinda things.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I saw a comment under one of my reels on IG that said, "It is the Lord that hides a man, and makes him known"
.. And that my friends, has become the star line of my life. My entire life.

Rewind now.

One day, A couple months ago, I started posting reels of my old music on IG and TikTok.

And I went viral. Like... Viral viral.

The same sound I was told I should change went viral.
The same lyrics that people said I should stop writing went viral.

"Heart to Heart", the first song I wrote off my first album 12 years ago, is the most viral video on my time-line. 2.5M views in.

And it hasn't stopped. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had to answer questions like "where have you been all this time?" and, "where can I find this music?"

Every day I have to tell people I'm Guyanese and not Jamaican. People are treating music that I produced a decade ago, like I just sang it yesterday. I have new music that can't even drop yet because people are still consuming my old stuff.

And I realize it was all necessary.
Every small church I sang in.
Every invitation that paid me with a box of food and a "God bless you"
Every big stage I was given just 5 minutes on.
Every pain that bled onto paper through my pen.
Every closed door and missed opportunity that I couldn't see was God protecting me.
Every "no" my parents told me in response to certain invitations.
The small church I came from where I had to sit under the Word when it was being preached.
Necessary.

Yall have made me fall in love with my own music, my own story, my own journey, all over again.

And truly, it is the Lord that hides a man, and it is the Lord that makes a man known.

"And Waiting is just a gift of time in disguise — a time to pray wrapped up in a ribbon of patience — because is the Lord ever late?" - Ann Voskamp

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Rum by I Am Omaiah Hall
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