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gospel artiste, Paul Praise, established himself in the short while he
got into the music industry. He launched himself into the industry in
2008 and stuck to gospel music. Five years down the line, he has no
regrets. However, he told Saturday Beats that a major challenge
of gospel artistes is that people expect them to perform for free,
forgetting that they have bills to pay.
He said, “The greatest challenge is
people’s expectations of gospel musicians. Most people expect that we
are not supposed to get paid because of our genre of music; they believe
we should do it for free since it is the work of God. The truth is that
our equipment is bought with money and the musicians and the band
members have families that they need to take care of. Sometimes when
people call and ask how much we would charge for a particular
performance, they feel shocked at the amount we mention. They remind us
that it is the work of God but they fail to understand that we all buy
things from the same market as everybody else.”
Sharing a near death experience that got
him closer to God, Paul Praise said he almost died after a surgery and
did not wake until he was about to be taken to the morgue.
“In 2008, I was in coma for about eight
hours but God brought me back to life through the prayers of men of God.
I was sick and went for check up, I had a boil and a surgery was
performed to remove the boil. After the surgery, I did not wake up for
eight hours until when they were about to take me to the morgue,” Paul
Praise said.
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