Famous gospel musician, Panam Percy Paul, traces his life’s journey in this interview with JAMES ABRAHAMI come from a very interesting family. My father was a military man and he retired on the rank of Major. He was an officer and a gentleman. My mother was a businesswoman. She dealt in textiles. I grew up to even manage her business. I describe my family as interesting because of the way we were brought up.
Under his supervision, I wrote my first love letter to the girl. It’s amazing because I was wondering what kind of parent would have detected the kind of pain, anxiety and struggles going on in the mind of such a young boy like me and even to sit with me and guide me into writing a letter instead of the usual thing of flogging the child and telling the child, ‘Don’t do this kind of thing; you are not of age.” But that was not his style. He just took me through it. It was just awesome.
My father’s name is Paul and my mother, Paulina. My immediate younger sister is Patricia and the last one is Precious. So, everybody in the house is a P. A lot of times, people thought I coined those names – Panam Percy Paul – but the truth is that these are my real names. The name Percy was given to me by my father. I think, I was five years old when I was always singing in the house. And his favourite singer was Percy Sledge and he named me Percy after Percy Sledge.
So, I left Benin the following day feeling disappointed because I had thought he was going to accept me and teach me from the Bible what music ministry is all about but that wasn’t the case. But my disappointment turned into the best counsel I ever got in life because for a man like that to say to me: “You are also a father because you are pioneering something new”. It was much later that I had to fall back on that counsel and I am thankful to God for that.
Around 1984/85 I started waiting on the Lord and true to His word, He started teaching me from the scriptures. Believe me; I would just get transported suddenly till the passages I was reading would come alive. I would discover myself in the real presence of the Lord; I would see the face of Moses, how God gave him songs and what the songs were for. I would read the Psalms and I would see myself transported to the very times David was composing those songs and why he was writing the songs.
Daddy P
panamparcypaul My favourite gospel musician of all times! Daddy would have seen what grave error he was making then.
Thanks to your dad for laying the foundational bricks that led to YOU being YOU👈…🦅🦅🦅
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