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Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Petenoir(m): 3:50am On Jun 06, 2020
Majek dabbled into spiritism and it affected him terribly –Ex-bandmate, McRoy

Only a few people knew the late music icon Majek Fashek better than his cousin and former band mate Amos McRoy, who is now a pastor at Seed of Abraham International Christian Centre. As cousins, McCoy and Majek started their music careers together and were part of the group called Jastix along with Black Rice who was the lead singer. One of the main gigs of the band was to play at music show ‘Music Panorama’ which aired on NTA Benin – a gig facilitated by Orits Wiliki. When the Jastix disbanded, McRoy and Majek focused on their solo careers but also remained very close.

In a 2013 interview by Musa Jibril for the defunct Entertainment Express newspaper, McRoy gave a detailed revelation of the mysterious fall of Majek who at that time had already hit rock bottom and how his adventure into Spiritism affected his craft and person.

Spiritism

“Many people think Majek’s problem is drug-related. Truth is Majek’s problem is spiritual. Majek strayed into spiritism. Once, while on stage, Majek said, ‘Oh, Fela is my boy. Bob Marley is my boy’. “He made that statement during a Rothmans Show at Tafawa Balewa Square and Dede Mabiaku, Fela’s protégé, went berserk. It took the intervention of Eddie Lawani to calm him. Dede didn’t quite understand what Majek was talking about. He was taking it from the physical sense, whereas Majek was talking spiritual. “Majek went into spiritism at a lightning speed – like jumping from kindergarten straight to the university. Without a linking bridge, he was not properly schooled. So he couldn’t keep the rules. “Majek totally ‘crossed the line’ after the release of Prisoner of Conscience. Those days, we were sharing the same duplex at Anthony Village. I would see the Guru Maharaji people come to visit him. The same Guru Maharaji we all know, just starting out at the time. The Hare Krishna people also came. I thought ‘oh, this guy is popular, that’s why they are coming to him for one favour or another’. I didn’t know that it was deeper than that.”

Success of Send Down the Rain

“Majek released his album in April 1988. I released mine a year after. We were under the same management. We rehearsed at the same place, using the same band as back up. One day, we were coming from rehearsal; he was driving his Peugeot 505 car. One of our backup singers, Monica Omorodion (who now lives in the US), said ‘Bros Amos, why is your record not making waves like Majek’s, or The Mandators, or Kimono?’ Majek looked at me in the rear mirror and said, ‘Don’t mind Amos. He doesn’t want to ask me the road I passed to become a star. He thinks it is good record that makes someone a star’. When he made that statement, I gave him a knock from behind. ‘My friend shut up there! What are you doing that I am not doing?’ I said. He switched to Benin language. ‘This is not the Majek you grew up with’, he said. Still I did not understand. “It took me 10 years to connect the dots. Not until we went to Cote d’Ivoire in 1998 that Majek told me certain things, that I became aware, in hindsight that ‘Okay, that is what my brother was talking about back then’. “The song ‘Send Down The Rain’ had a spiritual force behind it. That was one of the things he told me in Cote d’Ivoire. Based on what he told me, I think he ‘crossed the line’ before he released the album. “In Cote d’Ivoire, I asked him certain questions. His reply was: ‘Amos, are you that naive? I released Send Down The Rain, everywhere that song was played, rain must fall. Even in summer while we were on US tour, I played Send Down The Rain and rain fell. I released Free Mandela and that month Mandela was released. I did fire (Majek Beware) the week that record was released was the week the Rodney King incident happened. That song, Fire o! Fire o! was played for almost two months in all the TV and radio stations in Los Angeles during that Rodney King episode. So, are you that naive? Don’t you reason? “He started mentioning spiritual books. Then he told me: ‘You don’t know, I have got to the level of de Lawrence’. That was when I understood from which perspective he was talking when he said Fela and Bob Marley are his boys.” “While we were growing up in the church, we were competing spiritually by fasting. There were three of us – myself, Majek and Friday Omagbon, who is now late. If Majek fasted for three days, Friday and I would go for seven days dry fasting. That was how we grew up. We were competing spiritually. “Once in a while, God revealed things to him which he shared with us. And those things came to pass as they were revealed to him. If he had not gone into music, he would most definitely become a minister of God. If you listen to most of his songs, like Holy Spirit, or Righteousness Take Over The Earth, he was more or less a gospel artiste.”

Weird manifestations

“I started noticing weird manifestations in him at about 1991-2. We had a show at Eko Le’Meriden Hotel in Victo- ria Island, Lagos. To my surprise my brother came on stage fully dressed in a native doctor’s attire instead of his regular outfit. By that time, we were not living together anymore. “Majek’s problem is not drug-related. He took to alcoholism to get over his real problem. Failing to keep the rules of whatever he delved into, he started to hallucinate. He started seeing things. “For instance, if he was in a room, he would tell you ‘open the door, open the window’. If you tell him the air condition is on, he would say ‘Can’t you see them spirits; you want to trap the spirits. Men, let the spirits move around’. “He felt he could stop seeing those things by getting drunk. Till date, he has not been able to liberate himself from those spirits. Before we went to Cote d’Ivoire, we had few shows here – First at Waterparks in Ikeja, then at MUSON Centre on Lagos Island, thereafter, the eastern part of the country. By then Majek’s behaviour had become erratic. He would come on stage, unzipped his fly and started saying ‘Let me show you my d**k. I used to f**k American P***y’.

‘He broke the rules’

“The event we went for in Cote d’Ivoire was like Nigeria’s Festac 77. Black artistes from all over the world were there for one week at the Félix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan. The Marley family came, so was every big reggae artiste. “I was determined not to let him disgrace himself the way he had been doing lately in Nigeria. We got to our hotel and after allocating rooms, I stayed with him in his suite. As soon as he called room service and ordered for a bottle of brandy, I would pick the intercom immediately and cancel the order. We would begin to quarrel. For three days, I gave him close marking. He couldn’t drink alcohol. I forced him to eat. “On the third night, around 2 a.m., while we were watching a movie in his suite, he looked at me and shook his head. He said: ‘Amos I envy you, men’. I said ‘What do you mean? How can you envy me, you are the star’. He said: ‘You won’t understand. Just hold on to Christ, the way you are, he would reward you at last.’ “I started probing him. One of the questions I asked was: “All these reports about you reading the Seven Books of Moses, are you really reading them? His reply: “Seven Books of Moses? Those are kindergarten books’. He started mentioning books that I have never heard of in my life. He mentioned names too. That was how he came up with the line that he is getting to the level of de Lawrence. He told me many things. He told me he couldn’t keep the rules. He broke the rules. But he failed to tell me what the rules were. “It was in Lagos he mixed up with the wrong crowd, but his case worsened in the US. The circle he fell into in America complicated his problem, especially when he met a promoter called Paul (surname withheld). “When he was signed on to Interscope Records, they brought in the producer of U2 to work on his album. That man also spiritually influenced him negatively. Those two guys were steep in spiritism. There is no difference in spiritism here in Nigeria and over there in America. The devil is the same everywhere. “This is the irony: once Majek gets on stage, the spirit steps aside for him to perform; once he finished performing, the spirit comes back to start the torment.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/majek-dabbled-into-spiritism-and-it-affected-him-terribly-ex-bandmate-mcroy/

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Christianos: 4:16am On Jun 06, 2020
What shall it profit a man...?

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by pyyxxaro: 4:39am On Jun 06, 2020
He’s now history

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by pafra(m): 4:43am On Jun 06, 2020
I strongly believe he repented and he came back to christ before he died.

He is faithful and just to forgive if we confess and turned away from our sins

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by FullBar: 4:54am On Jun 06, 2020
Unputdownable revealations,quite insightful and thought provoking....Devil's gift is always shortlived, am sure others living will learn lessons from his experience....if not for that ugly incident....Uncle Majek would have been the greatest reagae icon after Bob Marly ,Peter Tosh and Lucky Dube.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Ghostrye: 5:23am On Jun 06, 2020
There are three sides to any story. So far we've only heard one

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by awesomely: 5:41am On Jun 06, 2020
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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by ebujany(m): 5:45am On Jun 06, 2020
FullBar:
Unputdownable revealations,quite insightful and thought provoking....Devil's gift is always shortlived, am sure others living will learn lessons from his experience....if not for that ugly incident....Uncle Majek would have been the greatest reagae icon after Bob Marly ,Peter Tosh and Lucky Dube.



Which ugly incident?

Spiritism is dangerous. You know more than your capacity as a mortal man. The things of darkness should be left for the people of darkness and since there's darkness, it means there's light. That's why I laugh when I see few people here saying there's no God.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by overdrive(m): 5:47am On Jun 06, 2020
Let the righteous takeover the earth!!!

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by agbolahan1991(m): 5:54am On Jun 06, 2020
Life is vanity upon vanity....
What's meant to b will definitely b either u go spiritual or put your trust in Allah

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by elpochas: 6:20am On Jun 06, 2020
Vanity the devil favorite sin.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by janedonez(m): 6:47am On Jun 06, 2020
Vanity upon vanity. What shall it profit a man

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by ikorodureporta: 6:56am On Jun 06, 2020
Hunan's Quest For Knowledge

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Ladiesdoctor(m): 7:06am On Jun 06, 2020
The yeyebrities wey dey carry shoulder for naija like bunga fish....e don tey wey dem don damgbo into spiritism.

Small time if dem broke dey go dey look like Clifford Orji.
If rubbish befall dem na so dey go dey blame their managers, producers, marketers, labels, brothers, wives, husbands, house helps, pastors, villages, parents.

The thing wey pesin chop na dat thing dey commot for his/her anus.

If you know say you no go fit, no try am.
Later you go come dey blame devil.

If devil mama come ask you why you dey lie lie for him pikin head you fit answer am?

Good nonsense yeyebrities!!!

You better believe in Jesus Christ or Muhammad PBUH

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Talknochip(m): 7:15am On Jun 06, 2020
Hmmm
Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Kposkila: 7:29am On Jun 06, 2020
Little little patience. He was meant to be great but, imagine starting off with dats of fasting n eventually into spiritism.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by diziki: 7:30am On Jun 06, 2020
Sounds plausible.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by partnerinbiz: 7:32am On Jun 06, 2020
how sure are we?

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by ednut1(m): 7:33am On Jun 06, 2020
Jargons, drugs and alcohol ruined him

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by nigeriagospel(m): 7:36am On Jun 06, 2020
Very correct, majek himself said his problem was spiritual in an interview back then.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by SolexxBarry(m): 7:43am On Jun 06, 2020
diziki:



Sounds plausible.

You didn't have to quote everything tho

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by humilitypays(m): 7:49am On Jun 06, 2020
Wizkid, Davido and that other boy shortlisted for Grammy, Burning Boy abi wetin be that him name should tread carefully cry

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Barryseal: 7:55am On Jun 06, 2020
I remember the first time he sang send down the rain in Lagos, the heavens really opened and poured.
It was a regular occurrence and alot of people casually suspected the spiritual undertone. They were right. Would have been interesting to know the rules he broke.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by diziki: 8:11am On Jun 06, 2020
SolexxBarry:


You didn't have to quote everything tho


Okay, sir.
Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by petertamtam6(m): 9:05am On Jun 06, 2020
Life's weary wait.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by generationz(f): 9:07am On Jun 06, 2020
Whoever is involved in spiritism here should come tell us the rules he broke.

Tenks.

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Nobody: 9:09am On Jun 06, 2020
Please lord show me the way so I won't go astray
and If you don't show me the way Lord, forgive me for being lost embarassed

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Hypnotise: 9:41am On Jun 06, 2020
No power is greater than the power of the Almighty. Why go to the devil in the first place. We'll all get to see the creator one day. How will you give account?

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by Foodqueen(f): 9:50am On Jun 06, 2020
Na waoh

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Re: Majek Fashek Dabbled Into Spiritism And It Affected Him Terribly – Amos McRoy by psalmprodigy(m): 10:17am On Jun 06, 2020
Uhmmmm
I know a lot will start manifesting after his death. We are still waiting for more tho

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