Enter Gotaflika. A woman in Ghana, Africa gives birth to her seventh child and makes the hardest choice she was ever faced with. She made a decision to leave her children and all of her family to pursue education and a career path that would be for the betterment of her family in the United States. She had to make an incredible journey that took an immense amount faith and courage. This hope had to have been something so real that it would cause her to leave everything she knew behind. A young African boy was shaped by his mother's determined journey even as he was sent to live in the village with his grandparents to help tend to his brothers and sisters. "Even though I missed my mother so badly, every morning I found myself waking up singing the songs the women in the village sang the night before. Music had become my savior and I knew then, as I know now, I would always dedicate my life to it." Culture shock was Gotaflika's welcoming gift to America. For one who grew up without electricity and running water until he was ten years old, it definitely took effort to adjust. He keeps one eye on his proverbial rear-view mirror to abstain from forgetting where he came from and to keep from forgetting his people. Full bio originally published https://www.finaltouchmedia.net/businessarticles/musicishope © 2018 by finaltouchMEDIA