Eddy Grant deserves to have the greatest recognition

Sep 22, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write in support of an idea proposed by one of your newspaper Columnists, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, which was entitled, “Name something after Eddy Grant”.
This idea is indeed a noteworthy one and should not be allowed to fall by the wayside for many reasons.
The first and most important reason is that Eddy Grant is the only child of Guyana whose fame and renown on the international scene has lasted for decades. The sun may never set on his musical work and achievements.
Everyone likes good music, and some of us have even tried singing in our bathrooms, but the music world is more than just singing and happiness.
It is about prudent and economic management of your resources and the payment that you receive from the work that you have done.
Eddy’s empire is now global. It spans from England to Africa and everything in between, including Barbados.
The way the story is told is that the entire population of Guyana will fit in only one small section of the crowd at one of Eddy’s live concerts.
I fail to see how the authorities could have indeed overlooked the achievements of this great son of the soil who has indeed put this country on the map in the music world and is keeping it there.
What the people of Guyana may not know is that Eddie is a great patriot of his country and has an undying love for his homeland.
Eddy has many fixed assets here in this country; he comes home fairly often and he has never pretended to be anything else other than a Guyanese in his speech and in his outlook.
One of the greatest loves of Eddy’s life, his mom, resides right here in this country. His brother Rudy and other siblings, his children , in-laws and other close friends and relatives are right here living and serving this country. They could easily migrate but have not done so.
It is Rudy who is my close friend and confidant, but it was the elder Mr. Grant, his father, whom I first met during my days of practising law on the East Coast of Demerara.
The Grant family is a lesson in respectability, courteousness, orderliness, truthfulness, decency and all that is good and right in a child, a son, a brother, a relative or a friend.
Rudy sometimes gives me some insights into life that I do not always want him to be right about, but he always turns out to have the correct insight in the end.
I have faced a lot of troubles but have always benefited from the kind hands of a friend, in Rudy.
I recall one day I was in a rush to go to Scotia Bank and was driving on the eastern carriageway of Carmichael Street intending to make a right turn at the end of the block, when I thought I saw Rudy standing almost in the middle of the road.
I called out to him. “Rudy, Rudy”, but he was looking at me and smiling but not answering. I had almost passed by him so I slowed down and backed up. I opened my car door and said “Come in”.
It was only when “Rudy” came into the car and I saw the cap that I realized that it was not Rudy at all that I had in my car but Eddy.
I then said to him, “What a fine mess I am in here, Eddy. This is bound to make headlines tomorrow, I can just see it now “Chief Magistrate kidnaps Mega Superstar”, so where am I taking you?”
Eddy laughed and said that he was going to one of his business places. He is just a wonderful down-to-earth person.
The life and work achievements of this fine and inspiring son of the soil, the teachings of his mom and indeed the work of Rudy, who is an accomplished musician in his own right, are indeed worthy of emulation by the entire population of Guyana.
I cannot think of one single parent who would not want the personal talents of an individual offspring to be explored for the greater good of that child.
The inspiring work of Eddy Grant can be the catalyst for change that we are all hoping and praying will come.
It can start with the long awaited Copyright legislation that all artists really need here in Guyana. Something that Rudy had been working assiduously to achieve.
Juliet Holder-Allen

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