Faith Um: A Life Of Singing For Go

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The leader of “Jubilee Praise Team” began as a youth chorister in church.

Nnah Faith Um, 43, is a teacher with Government Bilingual High School, Etoug-Ebe, Yaounde. The married mother of four, who originally hails from Mbengwi, Momo Division in the North West Region is “a servant of God (a Reverend Psalmist) with Living Word Fellowship, Yaounde.” Faith’s singing life began as early as the age of seven in different children’s choirs till high school. “After university, I joined the Holy Trinity Choir of Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, Nsimeyong, Yaounde, in 2000. I have been a member of Royal Voice International, the choir of Living Word Fellowship, Yaounde, since 2003,” she recalls.

Together with 24 other artistes from 14 denominations, Faith Um founded “Jubilee Praise Team,” an inter-denominational, non-lucrative worship team that “seeks to build an altar of worship unto the Most High God and to pray for peace and unity in Cameroon.” On why many of today's artistes begin from the church, but later veer off completely into secular music, Faith attributes it to three reasons. These are lack of understand...