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Ghana’s Golden Heart, Musician Rocky Dawuni -P1/2
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I stood upon a rock,
on your holy mountains,
beholding your beauty,
overcame me like a song.
My cup overflows with joy,
hearing sound
of prayers and bells
My faith was once weak,
but now
you make me strong.
Greetings celestial souls
and gracious hearts,
welcome to
Enlightening Entertainment
featuring international
singing sensation
from Ghana, West Africa,
Mr. Rocky Dawuni.
He has been likened
to legendary vocalist
and peace-seeker from
Jamaica, Mr. Bob Marley.
Rocky is a true inspiration.
He chooses to use his
God-given musical talents
to promote
humanitarian causes.
He also empowers people
to change their life
to help make our world
a better place.
We have the power
To change the world
Whenever we want to
Spirituality, an open heart,
and inspiration
run deep in the world
of Rocky Dawuni.
My inspiration comes
from life, and humanity.
And life and humanity,
I believe
is centered within God.
So ultimately,
God inspires me.
So I find music
wherever life is and that
is what really inspires me.
And I also try
because from my onset,
coming from Africa,
I was very fortunate
to grow up
in a very spiritual family.
My family was steeped
in the traditions, African
traditional, religion.
But then as I grew up,
I also made it a point
to really study
from Christianity to Islam,
and read some, Vedas
and the Bhagavad Gita.
And through that,
what I realized was
that the concept of God
was just one within every
culture and every place,
and it’s just the
interpretation that usually
gives it its uniqueness.
So with that, my inspiration
comes from life as it is,
everywhere.
In 2003, Rocky established
his own musical venue in
Los Angeles, California,
USA called “Afro Funke”
to promote and celebrate
the beauty and oneness
of African music.
Rocky’s sincere heart
and pure motives
have attracted legendary
superstars such as Prince
and Stevie Wonder
to visit his club.
The thing is
that I don’t look back,
you know what I mean,
because there’s
always challenges ahead.
My all-ultimate thing
is the unity of Africa
and then peace on Earth.
So that’s
a really tall order.
Every generation and
every time and every day
comes with its challenges,
and what I think is
that music, because
it’s really a living thing,
once you put it out there,
you inspire people
within their hearts.
They shine their light, and
in so shining their light
too, they help others
to shine their light.
Saying if you’re going
the same direction
Oh children!
Zion train
is coming our way
Get on board now Woo!
Zion train
is coming our way
Rocky’s shining soul
radiates wherever he goes.
He uses meditation
as a way to gain wisdom
and maintain focus.
For me, meditation, it’s
one of the means by which
you get to know the Self.
You also get attuned
with the Self, and
as you tune with the Self,
you tune with the oneness
of the universe,
and that oneness
is where we all belong to.
So I see meditation
as a very important
component of what I do,
in order to also eliminate
all the clutter
and the chatter
that’s going on around,
to be able to focus
what is most important.
And I feel that it’s also
the soul of the world,
when you meditate,
you tap into the soul of
the world, and you draw
from a very powerful
wellspring of God
and nature and humanity.
So meditation I feel
is of prime importance
to everything that I do.
Closely tied to Rocky’s
spiritual beliefs of oneness
and universal love
is his choice of a diet
mainly without meat.
As reggae artist
Bob Marley once said,
“You can have more tender
meaning toward a cow…
you have other things
that you can eat
to get the same things
like meat protein has…
I don’t exactly like big
dead flesh in front of me.”
Next, Rocky Dawuni
shares his thoughts
on vegetarianism.
My belief in vegetarianism
is that love
makes everything run
in the world.
And the only way you can
really experience love
in its purest form is
if you can extend that love
not only to yourself,
and only to people
of your kind, but
every aspect of creation.
And so when I see
an animal, with blood,
with life, that moves,
I feel that it behooves on
me as a person, because
I feel that God gave man
dominion over the Earth
to be a caretaker,
you know what I mean?
Being a caretaker, you
have to have compassion
for everything
within your domain.
And so I feel
that preservation
of life of other creatures
and animals
is also a fundamental
responsibility of humanity.
In his youth, Rocky
would help his father,
who from a peacekeeper
became a farmer,
on the farm.
Cultivating vegetables
to grow full of vitality,
Rocky has inherited a joy
and celebration of life
on and off stage.
You can’t fake reality.
You can’t fake the truth,
and if you profess love,
I’m not saying that
people who eat meat
can’t give love,
that’s not what I’m saying.
I’m just saying that
personally, for me to
really be able to feel that
divine almost to that level,
I feel that I have to extend,
I have to extend
my consciousness
way beyond just humanity,
and in doing so to
when I stand on stage
and I talk about love,
I feel that it comes
from a very deep place.
It’s just my journey to,
to really find the truth
within myself, and
the truth without of myself.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
We’ll return soon
with more on the gifted
Ghanaian reggae artist
Rocky Dawuni.
Yeah! Right this morning
I just wrote this song
In the evening
and I will be strong.
Yeah! Right this morning
I just wrote this song
In the evening
and I will be strong.
Welcome back
peace-loving viewers.
We were just listening
to the heart-lifting song,
“Sweet Bright Day,”
from Rocky’s
1998 album, “Crusade.”
With his passion
for constructive change
and gifted singing voice,
he has received
many favorable reviews
in the media such as
this one from LA Weekly,
which said: “Few artists
in town have a more
positive spiritual attitude
than Rocky Dawuni…
he deeply, truly believes
in the power of music to
effect progressive change
in the world.”
His latest album
was released
in October 2009 entitled,
“Hymns for the Rebel Soul”
with his band
“The Revelation Project.”
Rocky discusses
a beautiful song named
“Jerusalem”
and the profound effect
it had on his life.
I was in Israel last year,
and it was a culmination
of a spiritual journey
because I’ve been
a big student of the Bible.
I really studied the Bible
since I was a little kid,
and I’ve studied the
Qur'an too, and the Gita.
So Jerusalem has always
held a very special place
to me, because
it’s also the place,
the three major religions,
and even other religions
that are not part of
the three major religions,
all profess as to
the divinity of Jerusalem.
So, when I got to Jerusalem,
there was really
a certain, shall I say,
feeling and awareness
and consciousness
that swept over me.
I stood upon a rock,
on your holy mountains.
Beholding your beauty,
overcame me like a song.
My cup overflows with joy,
hearing sound of prayers
and bells
My faith was once weak,
but now
you make me strong.
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
If I forget you,
I forget my right hand
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
Up in the hills
men and angels sing.
Oh what a beauty
when their kingdom come
I’ll say it again and again
This time has come for us
To rise and be
the control of Babylon.
So here I am with
the voice and the sound
Walking your streets
like a king
who’s found his crown.
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
And if I forget you,
I forget my right hand
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
Though you sit in isolation
You are the whole world’s
inspiration
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
May peace be
within your walls, Amen.
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
I will answer every call
Asalam Alakum
(Peace Be Upon You)
I can’t forget you,
Jerusalem.
I think that song really
summarized my journey,
my spiritual journey
and my spiritual quest,
that you go forth
just to discover the Self,
you know what I mean?
And Jerusalem really,
really, really helped me
on my path to discovery,
self discovery.
Interestingly,
Rocky perceived the 2008
US presidential election
as a sign of the start
of a new transformation
on Earth.
During this time,
he was recording “Hymns
for the Rebel Soul.”
In churches in Israel,
in mosques in Israel, just
the movement of people,
you could see that
we’ve reached
a certain precipice in terms
of our human journey,
and that we were
just getting ready
to step into a new era
of spiritual awakening.
We are in an age
when things, changes,
profound changes
are going to come.
So I think
it’s not a change that
we’re waiting to receive
and it falls in our hands.
It’s a change
that we have the power to
make it what it has to be.
So I feel that this is why
my work becomes
important because
my music is towards
upliftment of people,
and also making people
positively oriented.
You know, they have to
realize that everybody
who is born is a miracle.
We have to see ourselves
as really special and
that specialness has to
make us also appreciate
what we have, that if we
realize how special we are,
then we can realize
how special we can be.
And I think
not realizing that
is also a limitation
of what our power
and how we can be.
So by this age is that
the playing field
is all being leveled for us
to really create
this new world.
It’s up to us to make it
what it should be.
So people like me who
are going through time
and space and stages
and bringing positivity,
we want the change
to be positive.
We want it
to be that kingdom
that we all aspire to,
that kingdom that
humanity can celebrate,
that kingdom that’s no war.
People will
put their swords down,
and know that
conflict and war belonged
to an age when we were
still in the darkness,
but this will
definitely be an age
of light and progress and
upliftment of humanity.
To find out more
about Rocky Dawuni,
please visit:
Beloved viewers,
this concludes part 1 of 2
of our interview with
Ghanaian singing sensation
and peace advocate
Rocky Dawuni
here on
Supreme Master Television.
Please tune in again
tomorrow
for our conclusion as
we discuss more in-depth
Rocky’s musical and
humanitarian endeavors.
Now, please join us for
Words of Wisdom, next
after Noteworthy News.
May your heart sing with
serenity and gladness.
See you next time!
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