Jihad Saad – Expand Your Awareness, Transform Your Life

Trenchtown is the suburb of Kingstom, the capital city of Jamaica. It is a poor guetto consisting of adjacent concrete blocks where people live packed in poverty. This is where Bob comes from. Originally Bob was born in St. Ann, a beautiful mountain village in the hills of Jamaica, but he had to move with his mother to Trenchotown when he was ten years old. Bob was abandoned by his father who was a white English man, and at age 13 his mother left him too and went to America to look for a job and a future. Bob grew alone, in Trenchtown, in the middle of the guetto violence and the rude boys. It is there when they used to sit, in the government yard in Trenchtown, and then Georgie would make a fire light, and it would be burning through the night… Who could have guessed that few years later the whole world would be singing these Trenchtown memories with Bob? Who would have believed that this man, coming from the harsh and violent guetto, would one day carry the message of “One Love” to the whole world? This is but a small testimony to Bob the musician, Bob the man, and Bob the spririt..

Back to the Concrete Jungle.

No chain around my feet, but i am not free
I know i am bound, in captivity
Never know what happiness is
Never know what sweet caress is
But i’ll be always smiling, like a clown
Love, sweet love, must be found somewhere
In this concrete jungle!
Where the living is hardest.

Did you grow up too in a Concrete Jungle? Did you wake up to life surrounded by buildings from all sides, rarely feeling the sun, rarely seeing the moon? Did you grew up between people killing and shooting each other? Did your home town look like Trenchtown? Or Beirut during the civil war?

Then Bob is also singing for you!

But you know what? This is not the end! Cause Bob made it out of the captivity of his ghetto. In the years to come, not only he would sing for his own liberation, but also for that of his country and for his people. He will sing for the poor, he will sing for the enslaved, he will sing for the colonised, and he will continue to inspire millions around the world. Yes Bob did break out from the Concrete Jungle and he reached the four corners of the earth. In his brief life, he would tour the world from US to Europe, from Scandinavia to Japan, from Africa to New Zealand, and people from all races and religions would gather to dance to his music and sing with him:

“One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel alright!”

From Concrete Jungle to One Love.. That’s the Uprising Spirit!

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Listen to this live beautiful version of Concrete Jungle and go back to Trenchtown where it all started!