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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of Creators to Creators. Today.
Today we have a special guest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Laticia Aisha.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Welcome, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so, you know, I love I love going back
to the beginning, you know, I love I love to
I always say the beginning, you know, charge our trajectory
in life, Our little habits we pick up along the way,
you know, seem to follow us into our adulthood. Tell
me about you know, your childhood, you know those early
moments singing gospel with your family. You know what do
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you remember most vividly?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yes, I remember from the time I was very small.
I'm guessing that I may be three years old, actually four.
I will see myself, you know, the first thing I remember,
I'm sitting between my father and my mom inside the
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vox wagon, you know, vox wedging beetles. That's what why
I saw my father driving that time. And there would
be gospel music, you know, blurring, you know, and the
two of them will be singing, and then soon enough
I'll be joining them and then going to church, coming
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home from church. And then I began to see that
I have friends and siblings that come over, my age
mates and you know, my little sister, and we all
gather and sing together, and I will be like holding
like a mic is not actually a mic, something in
my hand, and I will be in front of everybody,
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singing and dancing gospel. And sometimes the everybody, all of
us will be dancing, dancing, and my father will be
taking pictures, I know. And then sometimes it's the whole family, myself,
my friends, my siblings, my mom, my dad. Sometimes we
sing hymns to the Lord, and sometimes we make it.
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Because I started writing songs very early, I will make
songs mostly some twenty four. I don't know why that
sounds outiful. I have written a song about some twenty
four when I was being very young, and we all
sing it sing, it's sing. So even on television, yes, yes,
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on TV, my father we put on the gospel music
of course those days it's DVD, right, yeah, and CVR whatever.
You know. We're all forgetting the names now, and I
bet my children they won't even know what it is,
so but my father will put them on and who
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everybody in the yard. We call it yad because everybody lives.
How can I describe it? Over here? It's called apartments, yes,
apartment buildings. Yes, so people will come out and they're big, big,
singing hallelujah hall. It becomes everyone. So I remember it's
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as a very happy childhood growing up, Yes, very happy.
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
When did you really as you had a calling to
use your voice for God's work? I feel like that's
exactly what it is. I feel like we all have
a calling, but some people don't, you know, find their
calling until sometimes later on in life.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, yes, and that is what you said is correct,
because yes, I remember, even when my dad was dropping
us off to lend piano, I would go there and
begin to play with the quir master's children instead of learning.
And the qui master too kinds then't want to chastise
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me or anything like that. But I think that's what
made it even longer. So I did realize after I
was still writing songs to see books I even got
for hims. Yes. So, but long story short, there were
things going on in my life. There was a time
that every night I feel like I'm dying. This was, yes,
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this was just like two thousand and a few years ago,
actually maybe seven years ago. So every single night I
feel like I will not you know, I can. And
that's how I learned that most people know that they're
gonna die. That's how I lent it because that feeling
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keeps and the soldierly in the night, I couldn't breathe
for no reason. So and this thing happened so much,
I went and got took kata because I have a
bunch of kids. So I went and took out one
million dollar life insurance. I'm telling you, I said in
case I die, and I went to my country and
brought my sister. Said they will be with somebody. So
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but I when I go to the hospital, they won't
find anything. Telling you. They sent me to oncologies. They
said there was no cancer. They sent me here during
my blood pressure was okay, And they don't understand why
I feel like I'm dying. I say, I don't know.
This happens in the night. So one day my ten
year old, my son, my first baby, he said, Mom,
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he was going to eleven that time. Very wise boy,
he said, Mom, if you feel like you're dying, be wise.
You are telling us, you know, giving us telling, giving
us advice and the things to do if we're not there.
Are you all these songs that you wrote, why not
make one, you know, release one, so that the world
we have something, we gain something from your coming into
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the world. That's what he said. I love that, my
that boy. And I started looking for a studio. Do
you know that immediately I started recording gospels.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sound that's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I became okay. There was no disease anymore, there was
no sickness, and I look at myself. I said, oh,
maybe you know, maybe God has been telling me to
do this. And because of the noise in the house,
because believe it, I have some of my children. I
think one in particular wherever he is the most TV
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on and he would be blending it. So there is
no way and the lot of talks in whispers, you know,
in in in in in lou Ton. God does not
shout us, so I may not He may be telling me,
and because of the noise, I may not have heard
until he touched me in that way. So I just
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am so grateful to the Almighty for this opportunity that
He has given me as beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Wow, I love that. Did you have any any gospel artists,
like any any people that you that inspired your style?
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Speaker 3 (08:20):
Not really, I love that, I'm telling you, not really.
I just write it myself and as it comes, I know.
But that's that's why I am odd you know, and
the kind of God that God is because when I
look at myself, I said, oh my God, even the
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ones I was singing as a child, the ones I wrote,
I believe me. I wrote even some books growing up
and Chad, and I'm like, what. So when I look
at myself, I see that the story of God is
something that human beings we cannot even equal, we cannot
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even understand fully, you know, because trying to wrap my
mind around this kind of God that we have. So
the way he came to me, I listened to other
people's songs. Yes, I enjoy them, but I can't say
that this is it or this is that the songs.
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And I also listen to ordinary songs, you know, like
what listen like someone like Michael Jackson. And I grew
up listening to his songs, dancing to his songs, and
even now the way he died, I cried, I thought,
my eyes we follow. So yeah, to answer a question,
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there is no particular person. One of my co workers
here listened to my song one day, the one that
is called the Airway and she's She said to me,
it was an album of eleven songs. She said to
me that I sound like one gospel saying. Guy, she knows,
I said, I don't know any anyone. I just sound like,
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you know, I sing what the Lord gave me. Yeah,
I love this and yes, and if you if you
listen to my songs, my voice is maybe different in
different songs. And that's what I noticed too. So it
depends on what song that the Lord gave me, my
voice will come out for that's one that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, I think that's beautiful. Yeah, because when I first
heard the song, I was thinking, you know, the first
thing I thought, I was like, I wonder, I wonder
where she's from. And I thought maybe Nigeria somewhere, you know,
I love Pastor Chris the pastor there. I think it
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from Lego's Love World and the music there and the
choir and just kind of reminded me of that. So
I was going to ask where what like, what where
are you from?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Exactly? Yes, So I am from West Africa. I can
tell yes, yes, yes, my my my parents you know
I have my my dad is actually from Nigeria, but yes,
and my mom is from my room. So I I
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and I trust my I trust my ancestors who to
even Ghana, I'm telling you. So it's from every all
of us, all but basically Nigeria, Yes, beautiful, basically Nigeria.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You mentioned facing judgment for your faith, and like you know,
and I feel like that is unfortunate. How do you
stay grounded when others question your beliefs?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I can tell you one thing though, Uh, there's never
been a time that I doubted what I believed in
because of people. You understand, because I had when I
became born again, I went through a lot of persecution
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in the village and the family where I married into
where I became born again, actually born again, you understand,
because I was born into the church. That's not being
born again, right, So when I became actually born again,
it was a lot of persecution. I was the first
one in that family, yes, And I was the second
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one in the whole village, and they had succeeded in
pulling down the one before me. Yes, yes, So it
was a lot of persecution. So that's why I can
deal with it. The Lord prepared me so. But as
you know, it's an ongoing fight. I have been disrespected
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because of my beliefs have been Some people look at you,
they think, oh, she believes in God, she must have
no braain. Oh yes, in their hearts, and because their
attitude and the way they treat you will show that.
And what the way I succeed and persevere is with
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prayers and looking up to the one that called me.
I did not call myself, looking up to the one
that the god that gives songs in the night. You know,
I look up at him. I said, you're the one
that told me to do this, And they're the one
that called me. You're the one that will take me
out of this. And the Lord always wins, that's one
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thing I know. Yes, those that used to remember my
current job, I'm coming. If you're coming down the corridor
and you meet two people, they look at you and
begin to laugh at you, and they want you to
know that they're laughing at you. You understand when when
it's like that, I passed by quietly. But eventually they
will come to me. And that's the beauty of it. Yeah,
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and there and we save a god of miracle. So
those that do that, they will be the ones that
they will come to you because they will have one
problem or the other. That's only the all my tic
can solve, right, And those that around them that know
who you are in the Lord will be like, did
you talk to her yet? And then they will call
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you to decide this about my child. We have gone
to seven hospital specialities we have done and then one
little prayer because it's not it's not us that do it. Yeah,
it's that name Jesus. That's the name. So you said
the prayer in the name of Jesus before she resumed.
All the things that were the problem in the in
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that child will be taking away. The next time they
saw you, they would respect the God that you not you.
But they laughing, the laughing at you will stop. They
would be the one saying, oh my goodness, if you
see that, they will be telling everybody. So that's how
the Lord has been helping me. So if they laughed
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too much, the next thing will happen. They will come
for prayer. One old woman her daughter kept feeling exam
in the university. So and she you know, somebody said,
did you try this to do? And her daughter started
associating with bad friends. It was prayer. The next two
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weeks she said, she passed. She passed, praised the Lord.
I love that practical practical Christianity. Yes, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
What inspired the title forward ever backwards ever Jesus.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Thank you for asking that one, because the Lord gave
me that song because of what is going on in
the world right now and what is going on in
my life. Also. Yes, so when you look around, yes,
it's true the world has been into wars, the war
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here war, but that of this year is too much,
is it not. It seems as if it's superseding everything else.
Before you can turn around, you see the news. China
has put this thing over there between them and Taiwan,
this one, I'm telling you. And then they shut down
a room from where so it's like something that is
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getting out of hand. And then I see the pictures
of these children in Gaza that are serving you know,
used to be they will say, say, picture of children
in Ethiopia, in Africa, in Haiti. Now it's in Gaza.
And then I look around even where I live now,
sometimes I come home from work he's in the United States.
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I will see a bag at my door, an empty bag.
He said, to put some food there. You know that
children are going to bed on empty stomach. They would
drink soup the United States of America. Are you kidding me? So?
I said, ah, If this is I hope that nobody
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will look back, you know, and said I'm going to
drop my Bible. I'm going to because of all these
things I'm seeing, I'm going to serve the devil instead.
So the Lord inspired that song by the Holy Spirit,
and that's how I wrote it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yes, thank you for Share, for making a song like that,
like you're write, it's so important because we are living
in such wild and crazy times. But you know, people
need some type of peace, you know, get through through
their whatever they're going through, those those struggles. Yes, you
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know what message do you want listeners to take away
after hearing this song? Forward ever, backwards never Jesus.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yes, I want them for everyone that listen, including everyone
that is going through persecution. You know, mostly somebody can
be going through persecution because of their sexual orientation. We
all know that. Right they wake up, you know, their
body is confused somehow and now they don't know what
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to do. They cry and they do. So all people
that are going through persecution of one kind or another,
for their religion, for the color of their skin or anything.
You know, to have a boss that is overbearing, you know,
you have to do it. You have to serve me
this way, or you're at the door, or you cannot
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say this, you cannot fight for yourself or anyone. So
they take away. What I want people to take away
from that is that there is hope. You don't matter
what is going on in your life, don't fail to
look upon Jesus, don't fail to hope in God. Because
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one thing I know, there is a difference between praying
and waiting for the Lord. Yeah, it's normal for human
beings to pray, but to wait to be able to
know that no matter God, you are not seeing anything
that God is doing right now. It looks as if
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God is ignoring you. He's not. He's walking in the
background because eventually you will take you out of that problem.
Eventually He must show up. That is how it is.
I want people to know that there is hope. What
is happening?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, and Lord, most absolutely. And you know your story
is so inspiring. You know, when I read your bio,
I was just like wow, I mean you've endured unimaginable tragedy,
you know with this, you know your son, and how
did your faith obviously sustain you through that?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm sure that was, Yes, it was. It was because
I can say this, some of my family members actually
began to accuse me. Yes, mostly they said, it's because
I have the Bible in my hand. That's why God
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wanted to test me. And that's why God allowed my
son to be taken. And if you did not have
that Bible in your hand, our brother, we will probably
still be alive. Mm hmmm. And I look at them
and I shake my head. It's always good to know
the Lord. Yes. And another thing they don't realize. God
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does not use their vessel. He has not tested. Okay,
we are not going to go to the Bible right now.
But otherwise, from from Abraham to God wanted him to
kill his own son, and he really did, but said,
you are not supposed to be killing human beings for me.
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I would provide his sheep. So God, in his own wisdom,
there are things that God does not kill. I will
say he killed my son. No, but God was aware
of it right. And I nearly lost my life too.
I woke up in a comma so and the people
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started to talk. Even as I'm speaking to you now.
Last week, when somebody came to me because they thought
I would look back, I said they should go, and
they read. He listened to the latest song that the
Almighty gave me. They sat beside me at work and
they began to listen all the negative things they thought
were negative that happened to my life. And this is
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like a total stranger to me. So he said, this
happened to you. That happened to you, this happened to you,
and he listed all of it. And I was looking
at him and waiting for him to say that the
Lord is still good, and he didn't say that. So
when I came out of there, somebody told me that
he probably wanted for me to ask him, is there
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if you do? Doctor? He knew, so I can't go there.
I started to laugh. I said, oh, he came late.
He came very very late. I would never look back.
The King of Kings, the Lord of Lord is in charge. Yes,
he's in charge. He's still in charge. And I thank
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him for giving me the hope that I have because
that's my son. I'm telling you, he is. I can't
I can't even believe when he was in middle school
meyros merose middle school here Massachusetts, the principle and the
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science teacher and what else. Because they came to me
and said that he has They applied for him in
that school in Japan that people go from here after
finishing four years of college university, that they have applied
and the school took him. If I would allow him,
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I said, no, he's not going there. I said, this
boy is just fourteen. It's not happening. And my father
begged me to let him go. I said no, So
it is that kind of a boy. Yes, if I
went to work before I came, he prepared food for
himself for his siblings. He's been doing it ever since.
He can cook. Yes, But look at and in this
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venture of my calling, he's the one. He believes in me. Yeah,
and he's a prophet by his own right. He will
tell me things. Even this entireview were having that he said,
he saw me. This is all that boy. So even
that thing that happened to him he told everybody except me.
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I didn't know. So it was after it happened that this,
Oh my God, he said to I said what, because
if he told me, God knows, I would just beg
the Lord to please allow him all him to stay
with me. Please. Yeah, but that is okay. Still believe
in the Almighty. He holds our life in the palm
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of his hand. Sometimes he may love somebody more than
we love him, but we think we love him too much.
And sometimes he will look into the future and see
that if he left this boy now, if it doesn't
come home now tomorrow, he may do something that I
will cry and say, am I the Mother of this world?
You understand? So he hasted and let it happen. And
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that's why I'm not asking him why. That's why I'm
not mad at the Almighty for allowing you know, and
I say that he is still God, He's still the Almighty.
He gave and he can't take it any time. So
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and he has actually sustained me. If you see the
the miracles, including that of me being alife, right, that's
a miracle. That's a miracle. Yes, he decided to spare
my life so that I will go forward and tell
people that God is able to deliver them no matter
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what is happening.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I mean that's a big that's a big thing you
know in the community that I hear about, you know,
growing up in church myself, like you know, I would
hear the question of well, well, God to did this,
Why would God be do this to someone if he's
so almighty, And so we hear those kinds of questions,
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and I remember, you know, growing up and learning, you know,
just what you said that God doesn't kill, you know,
the devil does that, and and there is you know,
just you know, we're not exempt from getting you know,
negat if things are bad things happening to good people.
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You know, yes, you know you look at people in
the Bible like Job who lost everything, and certain people
that left to go to heaven early because their mission
was done or whatever reason. Yes, but I believe that
everyone has a path and you know, we all have choices,
and I do believe. Like there's this pastor I watched
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he was talking about how like you can you know,
you can have what you say, you can have whatever
you want, and but you know you can speak, you know,
because words are power. You know, like just this, you
know what spoke to a lot of things. But he
knew his mission and his journey just like all of us.
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So I love that what you said, and so thank
you for sharing that. Yeah, that was that's great. So
I want to ask, like, you know, I'm sure you
had a lot of reactions. A lot of people you
know said things to you about this, about the song,
and you know how much it touched them. And has
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there been you know, moments while you're performing sharing your
music with others and what was that like?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Okay, yes, to answer your question, I will start from
the last one though that the last question you asked me.
When you plant the agricultural is we know this. When
you plant a mango tree or orange tree, right, and
if you wanted to even apple, you want them to
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produce more, you prune them. You do what it's called pruning.
So when you caught this hand, you caught this hand,
the three we bleed a little. You see what are coming.
The tree is bleeding. But after that, watch out for
the next are best. It's gonna be huge. God does
that with human beings, and so and pring. A human
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being can be taken out the one you thought you
cannot do without in this life. The Lord will just
go and take them, and that is prulling and then
it makes the person to cry and they get closer
to God and then begin to perform better. And that
takes me to your current question. Sorry, this current one question.
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I have been to places where I be singing and
they be singing with me my song because the people
call me and say they want they sing along, you know, yes,
and then you sit heres coming from their eyes. So
some of them got healing, I'm telling you, healed their body.
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Some of them got healing on their soul. I remember
the last place I performed before COVID hit. He was
in Connecticut. The guy was he founded this thing because
he said, when when when the children of God were
in the world, they used to go to clubs on weekends, right,
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so now that they became born again, where do they
go on weekends? So he founded that club for Christians.
So I was called to come there and they did
the sing along the whole night. All the songs in
my album I'm telling you they from and they were
singing it and singing it. And these were born again Christians.
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That I perceived in my heart that this we were
born again Christians. And the man that actually invited me
was Heaven Bird. The Lord showed me He's gonna make
heaven so we were so I went there. After the
whole thing, the guy said that we're going to do
meet and greet. You know, people were coming. I was
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greeting and you know, and then he said, question and answer,
and they began to ask me about this thing that
happened in my in my house. So the first question
they asked, I opened my mouth because that thing just
happened like the year before. So I opened my It
wasn't twenty and eighteen, and this thing happened in twenty
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and eighteen. Where I went. So I opened my mouth
to answer the question only two words. I was into
two sentences, and I thought, he has everywhere and the
eyes of everybody crying somewhere holding their heart. I was like,
what did I say? I didn't know that. I didn't
say anything wrong. I was answering their questions, honestly. So
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after that, that heaven bound man of God that called
the gathering came out and they did an altar call.
I was surprised. So out of two hundred and something people,
there were four eight days that mean good among them. Wow,
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and this fog came out and gave their lives to Christ.
That's awesome, I'm telling you, because that is a miracle
that is above every miracle I've seen. So the first
one said, with tears in his eyes that his mother
his father were pastors. I was like, what, And then
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he turned sixteen years old and got fed up with
their Bible life and everything, and they ran away from
the house. He said, I moved out. I went with
my friend blah blah blah until today. And he came there.
He was thirty eighty years old. Wow, I know, twenty
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seventeen years since he left Christ. He said that I
have meant that the Lord has used me to rebuild
the bridge that he has burnt before that was between
him and Christ. He was so grateful to God. Hey,
that day I was I was working on the class.
I said, is this why the enemy wanted to kill me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Absolutely absolutely, because you're using your voice, you know, to
reach our people and and that's what it's honestly all about.
And thank you for doing that really quick. Where can
people find you on social media to follow everything you
have going on?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes, I am on Spotify, my music, I am on
a YouTube I've gone with my current at His name
is Letty Law. My father is Loman, Lourie is Loman.
They call him so. And you know, my first name
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is Leticia and they call me Letty my family that
it's an English version of Leticia. So, and I would
have answered, I would have put only lately there cit
I e. But there's a woman in London that is
answering that name and she was a singer. So I said, no,
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I'm not gonna see somebody as his name. So I
put law Letty Love. But if you type Letty low Man,
you see my old songs and so on and so forth. Yeah. So,
but Latty Law is the name I'm using. I'm using
right now and Spotify and in YouTube, tweeter and even
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as a matter of fact, there's voting going on. And
the last time I heard, they said I was around
number two hundred out of three hundred people. It's just
started the last week last on Friday. Yes, voting, so
and they asked me to tell my fans to vote
for me. I need to be within the one hundred people. Yes,
(34:54):
right everyone, Yes, Letty Love.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Right, it will happen. Definitely. Absolutely. Thank you so much
for coming on. This was so fun. It was great
to hear your story. And uh, please come back in
anytime when you have another song.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Absolutely, absolutely, and and thank you all for listening and
always remember to live, love, laugh. We see you guys
next time.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Oh, thank you so much goodbye, goodbye,