LONDON, Aug 14: Singer Wyclef Jean says he owes his life to music as it provided him with a retreat in scary situations growing up in Haiti.
The “Gone Till November” singer – who moved from his native Haiti to Brooklyn, New York, when he was 13 – says his favourite songs gave him a refuge, reported Contactmusic.
“Music can save your life. Literally. When I first started to play music it saved my life. When you’re in these communities as a teenager, music gave me a refuge.
“I was finding myself through poetry, through sounds and that distracted me from being on the block. At times when a shooting was going on, I missed it by 15 minutes because I’d decided to practise this Jimi Hendrix solo,” he says. (PTI)
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