Eight Years Later: Ray Blaze on Surviving a Gunshot and Finding Purpose.
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June 4th 2018: The Day God Said “Not Yet” — Ray Blaze (Gent, Belgium)
A Testimony of Survival, Purpose, and Afrobeat
Eight Years Later: Why I’m Still Here
Eight years ago, Afrobeat artist Ray Blaze — son of Nigeria and Benin, living in Gent, Belgium — stared death in the face.
A gunshot. One moment that could have ended everything. He survived. He went to “heaven and back” — and lived to tell the story.
For a long time, Ray didn’t fully understand why he was spared. Why him? Why that day? Why that second chance
Today, eight years later, the answer is clear.
From Survival to Purpose
June 4th, 2018 changed Ray Blaze forever. The gunshot took him to the edge, but it also forced him to look inward. In those years since, he’s learned hard lessons. He’s owned his mistakes. He’s done the work to right his wrongs.
Survival isn’t just about breathing. It’s about becoming. And becoming takes time, pain, and grace.
The Reason I’m Still Here
Ray Blaze says it now: he’s here to make a difference.
Every day he wakes up in Gent is another opportunity — to impact someone positively, to choose better, to use his life for more than just himself. His scars remind him that second chances are rare. And wasting one would be the real tragedy.
If his story can inspire one person to choose life, to change course, to believe that redemption is possible… then every bullet, every pain, every “why me” moment was worth it.
Eight Years Later
Eight years since the gunshot.
Eight years since God said “Not yet.”
Eight years of learning, growing, and walking in purpose.
Ray Blaze is still here — making Afrobeat in Gent, telling his story, and proving that Nigerian-Benin roots + European beats = unstoppable.
There’s no better time to be alive.” — Ray Blaze
June 4th, 2018. God did.
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