Destiny Sparta Gives Up Dancehall And Looks Towards Christianity

Destiny Sparta, who had some successful tracks this year like Robbery, in March, has decided to step away from Dancehall and dedicate her self to her Christian faith.

She spoke with the WEEKEND STAR about the decision and also told them that she was not happy with her career at the moment as it was bringing her a lot of stress.

Destiny also said that she had become addicted to weed and alcohol, and maybe because of this she found herself in a toxic relationship. The combination of factors caused her to ask her mother for prayer one night, she recalled.

“June 28, mi nah figet the date. Mi mother is a Christian and I told her to pray for me. I also told her to find some prayers on YouTube and play for me and she found Cindy Trim’s The Atomic Prayer and while she was playing it, I just started to have a reaction. For a while, I knew something had been going on with me spiritually but I never knew what it was,” she said.

She was motivated by this session to go to church the following day, she added.

“The pastor had an altar call and I was the first person up there. She prayed for me for a while all the time saying ‘loose her, loose her’ and that time mi scream out, and whatever that was inside me, because there was something inside of me, some spirit or something, it leave me. I could feel it leave me. From then I have no desire to smoke, to drink, nothing,” she said.

Also known as The Matriarch, she revealed that she got baptised two weeks later.

“Some things happen to me in life that were designed to kill me. A two times mi almost dead and is like God keep on a save me. Is like him a say ‘no untimely death, yuh affi fulfil your purpose’ and so mi just decide to do the right thing and gi mi life to him,” she said.

Since her awakening in July, fans have been asking Sparta why she had not yet renamed her Instagram account.  This, she explains in an Instagram post three days ago, is because the account is verified and she’s awaiting assistance from Instagram support.

Like Minister Marion Hall, once known as Lady Saw, she now believes that: “At one point I even said I wasn’t going to sing anymore but people reach out to me and say dem would love to hear gospel and stuff from me and mi just say mi a go do the right thing,” she said.

She continued: “Mi use mi voice fi praise the devil so much, so now it’s time to give glory to the one who actually gave me the talent in the first place. People need to know that God is real.”

Sparta was also inspired to follow her new path after meeting with Minister Hall the following week after her baptism. “She gave me some good advice. The whole meeting was so emotional. Coming into the industry, she was the first person to call me on a stage and so she always give me good advice. Now she’s telling me to keep my head up, focus on God and not what people will say. But I don’t even care about that honestly because I am happy. I am at peace.”

Minister Marion Hall, gave up her persona Lady Saw, in 2015 and shocked many of her fans after she declared that she would “dedicate her life to the Lord”.

Hall underwent a Christian baptism and later stated that she would no longer identify herself as “Lady Saw”, but instead as Minister Marion Hall or simply Marion Hall.  She also stopped performing Dancehall music and now has a blossoming career in gospel music and is also a preacher.