BE INSPIRED by SOULJAH LOVE Read full story below.... Soul Jah Love and Bounty Lisa , real names Soul Musaka and Lynet Musenyi opened up fully for the first time how they met in poverty and worked their way up to the glory they are currently basking in. According to their narrations, theirs was a “love at fist sight” thing, a match made in heaven! The two chanters who cut their teeth in Mbare bumped into each other sometime last year at the popular Chill Spot Studios at Matapi Flats in Mbare and then ever since then they became inseparable. Soul and Lynet are going to engage this Saturday at a public ceremony slated for Harare Gardens. Just a day after Soul Jah Love scooped two awards, Best Collaboration and Best Upcoming Artiste, at the Zim Dancehall Awards held at the Zimbabwe College of Music, the artiste opened up about his career and personal life. This Saturday I am going to unveil my bride to the public, I am driving a Hummer H2, I now live in a fully furnished house, everything the fruit of my sweat, every promoter and wanna-be promoter wants a piece of me, yet this is not my story,” said Soul Jah Love, sitting down for an interview with Mtandazo Dube of the Sunday Mail at his dwelling in New Canaan, Highfield. He continued: “All this is a result of a few months’ hard work and blessings from God not stretching back beyond October 2013. Just a few months ago I was sleeping on the cold hard floor Mbare in a shack that I couldn’t even call home. “There was nothing besides music and love to keep me going. My queen, Bounty, drowned me with unconditional love. She would visit me and talk to me about life, giving me hope that there was something to live for.” Soul Jah Love, who suffers from diabetes and thus cannot do much in terms of tough manual work, had to find a way to survive. He turned to music, the one thing that he believes kept him alive when he returned home from South Africa on a death bed after falling sick while working in Cape Town. “After returning from South Africa where I worked in restaurants having fallen ill, I turned to music with many people, including Roki. I was his backing vocalist but things did not work out well – I got mixed up with the wrong crowd just so I could get my next meal and a place to sleep. “I found myself lonely with just music in my head and the love of my life, Bounty, whom I met through music. But one day after a gig, we had made about US $90, I just gave her all the money and with the little she had saved up plus borrowings from friends we bought a bed and managed to rent a room in Mbare,” narrated Soul Jah Love. By then, Bounty Lisa’s parents already knew about the then unheralded singer who had stolen their daughter’s heart. “Her parents, realising that their daughter had made up her mind about me, began to take interest, to the extent of giving her tips on how to take care of a diabetic patient,” said Soul Jah Love. “And on November 20 last year,” recalled Bounty, “after a show, we just decided to elope together to our one room, furnished by nothing else but a bed”. “He has been a real gentleman. He has done everything as it should, getting introduced properly to my parents and even paying tsvakirai kuno, to let them know he has me and is responsible for my welfare. “After he comes back from a tour of the UK in May, his people will then conclude the customary marriage ceremony by way of paying lobola and then he can ask for a wedding,” said the 21-year-old Bounty Lisa, a second born in a family of three. The former St Peters Secondary School student is, however, more excited about this Saturday’s Engagement Party, which will culminate in a huge musical fiesta at the Harare Gardens. “For those that think that this is a joke, my father, my aunt and several of my relatives are going to be present at the ceremony. Jah Luv’s other siblings and relatives will be there as well, although it saddens me that his mother and father who are both late, can only be there with us in spirit,” she said. A talented dancer and occasional mbira player-turned dancehall chanter, Bounty only used to know his better half through music and although he has become extremely popular and the target of many women, she trusts him completely. The Gum-kum singer himself says she is right to trust him, as theirs “is a match made in heaven”. “I can’t say that I am perfect, but for my babe, I will be. Girls tempt me with money, beauty and all that they can offer, but Bounty is the one for me and in December we will wed. She is my queen, my royal woman, my stainless steel,” he declared. Armed with just two albums and several singles and collaborations, the Ndini Uyauya hit- singer says they are in the studio finalising Bounty’s debut “masterpiece”. Having lost his mother aged just one, his grandmother who had assumed responsibility for the toddler while in grade five, his twin brother, John, in 2004 and his father a year later – it was no surprise to Soul Jah Love when a few years ago his stepmother successfully evicted him from his family home ini Waterfalls. With an asthmatic wife while he suffers from diabetes, it would be easy to just give up, but Soul Jah Love believes life has so much to offer and that this is just the beginning of better things to come.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:59:44 +0000
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