Music is my ministry, says Alex singer
ALEXANDRA – Gospel singer believes she has a calling to minister the word of god to fellow humans through her music.
A gospel singer from Alexandra has chosen the route of ministering the word of God to her fellow humans through music.
Anna Williams, who started singing at four years old in a house choir in 11th Avenue, Alex, stopped singing her praises to the Almighty for no apparent reason when she got married in 2008.
“A few years after my marriage, I then fell ill and started vomiting, but each time I was hospitalised the doctors said there was nothing wrong with me, and this went on for some time,” said Williams.
“[Out of the blue], I decided to ask the Almighty for a healing to what I was going through. I prayed a number of times and for a number of days, and the vomiting subsided and I began to feel like my good old self again.
“I took this to mean I was being punished, if not directed back to the ministry of music. I then decided to revive my gospel career and approached a producer and told him I wanted to record.”
Williams, a Northview matriculant, who had never recorded before but still had a number of her songs she had written as a youngster, was ushered into a studio by Cynthia Mathenjwa of Big Fish Studios.
She has now just released her debut album, Ha re mororiseng, meaning let’s praise him.
“I literally wanted to thank God and praise him for the mere fact that I was still alive after this mysterious illness,” said the Alex-born musician who moved to Lyndhurst and later Midrand when she got married.
The 32-year-old singer said the proceeds from her album would go towards helping orphanages in and around Johannesburg. “This will also be my way of thanking the Almighty for this life he has given me.”
She is the mother of two daughters aged five and 12, who are both into music, with the elder child playing piano while her younger sister sings.
Williams is planning some roadshows later this month which she hopes will take her as far as Polokwane, Venda, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
When asked what messages were contained in her album, Williams said it was a mixture of lyrics in IsiZulu, Sesotho, Tshitsonga and English which are meant to praise God and worship him, while some songs were simply to soothe the ailing souls of the depressed or those who just lost their loved ones.
“I say to them, their loss is not the end of the world. There is still a life out there worth living, and with God’s grace, they still can live it despite the hardships,” she said.
Details on the upcoming roadshows will be published soon.
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