Nigerian veteran singer, Bankole Wellington popularly known as Banky W has shared insight into some personal struggles he encountered, from promiscuity to pornography.
Singer, Banky W has shared personal struggles he encountered during his youthful days.
Banky W who narrated his experiences in a recent interview on The Visibility Lunch Hour, explained that despite the world seeing him as a successful artiste, he felt empty and struggled with promiscuity to pornography.
In his words;
“In the eyes of the world I was a successful artiste, but I still felt empty and wretched. There were things I was struggling with on a personal basis.
“Everything from promiscuity to pornography just, real things that people struggled with on a personal basis.
“This is now getting to areas where one feels that one is in bondage and one is trying to clean oneself.
“So you are just stuck in this place of feeling far from God, feeling separated from God. Feeling that I have made a little bit of money but I am still not happy.”
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Furthermore, the Lagos Party crooner explained that there is that vacuum only God can fill in a man’s life.
“I have been fortunate to be able to do what I love for a living, for a long time. I am grateful for the small success we have experienced in music, in film, in other ventures. But there is what I like to call a God-shaped void inside every man.
Until you start to fill that void with God, you will find that you will come up short regardless of what success you have or how successful or happy you may seem in the eyes of the world.
There is an emptiness you feel when you are disconnected from that source. It is a purpose thing, not a pay thing. It’s a meaningful thing not about money. That’s why you see some of these billionaires commit suicide”.
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