Utterly passionate, devout and sincere. His music carries more conviction than virtually anything else. While he's religious and all, his music is not inaccessible to atheists and agnostics. On the contrary, the constant in all of us, whether we practice religion or not, is passion, and every single song this man has ever made portrays that. This is all coming from a man who was blinded by his stepmother at the age of 7 and died from pneumonia after sleeping in bundled newspapers on the ruins of his house that had burned down. Yet after all of these shortcomings that would make him want to give up and stop believing, he will not. He stays humbled and true to himself. The strongest personality traits I've ever seen. Remarkable man.
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