Fast-rising Ghanaian gospel musician, Perez Musik has shared his painful journey of fighting drug addiction for several years until his eventual encounter with Christ.
According to the ‘Hewale’ singer, he was strongly addicted to alcohol and nicotine leading him to make several mistakes in life because of lack of advise.
“I am a typical Abossey Okai boy. I grew up in an area where you can easily drift – I mean everything you need to do to be a bad boy is around you and it was not like my mum was always home.
“There was freedom, especially during vacations. You wake up in the morning, eat breakfast and go wherever you want to go wherever you want to go. Nobody cares. You can come back later to eat your lunch and continue with the roaming. The only thing was to get home by 7 pm,” he stated during an interview with George Quaye on Joy FM’s Showbiz A – Z.
He noted that he had the opportunity to engage in some of the aforementioned vices due to the lack of parental control.
As a result of this, the musician said he made several wrong decisions.
“I have struggled with addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and smoking for so many years and it has been a battle. I have been through a couple of stuff growing up as a young man. I have made a lot of wrong decisions. I always knew some of us were not fortunate.
“We did not have strict aunties and uncles who had lived life to an extent that they could actually guide us on what to do and what to do. So we had to make mistakes and correct them ourselves, keep the good things we learn, and unlearn the bad things we learned,” he said.
Perez Musik added that he always felt a strong force pushing him away from his addiction and bad ways.
He further shared that the turning point in his life was when he followed his mother to church one day.
“Back then I used to club a lot but one Sunday after clubbing, I woke up and told my mum that when they were going to church that afternoon I would go with them. She used to attend this fellowship in the afternoon and I don’t know why but all of a sudden, I wanted to be with them,” he stressed.
The singer concluded that he encountered the Lord on his second visit to the church leading his transformation.
Source: Modern Ghana