In the beginning!
Mozez came about in 1999-2000. My name I used before as an artist was Osmond Wright, my real name, and it just didn’t feel right at all so I decided to try and think of another one. I liked Motown music so that was where I got the ‘Mo’ from. It’s a silly way to get name! So, Mo from Motown- and this might sound pretentious but I was thinking, ‘OK. How do you see yourself?’ ‘How would you project yourself in ten years?’ I wanted to be at the top basically and the word that came to me was Zenith, so I got the ZE from that and put them together as Mozez. (Laugh!) It doesn’t make sense but that’s how it came about. I’m into Motown music and that’s really the key to it.
Mozez came about in 1999-2000. My name I used before as an artist was Osmond Wright, my real name, and it just didn’t feel right at all so I decided to try and think of another one. I liked Motown music so that was where I got the ‘Mo’ from. It’s a silly way to get name! So, Mo from Motown- and this might sound pretentious but I was thinking, ‘OK. How do you see yourself?’ ‘How would you project yourself in ten years?’ I wanted to be at the top basically and the word that came to me was Zenith, so I got the ZE from that and put them together as Mozez. (Laugh!) It doesn’t make sense but that’s how it came about. I’m into Motown music and that’s really the key to it.
Now, the biblical Moses was a prophet which you are well aware of with your church background. When you chose the name Mozez, did you think at
all about the type of music you were singing at that time?
Yes in a way because I have always been a person who has a
strong spiritual connection, singing in churches and because of my Dad (a
preacher.) I have always loved that; the idea of spiritualism; the whole
concept and I see myself as someone who is trying to deliver a message,
not necessarily in the Christian way of being, but more as a sort of social
messenger. I believe that I am a person who has a story to tell and you
can accept it but you don’t have to. A sort of moral messenger basically.
So what influences drew you away from your traditional Christian roots?
I think, as I grew older I realised that there was so much
more to the concept of God. When I came here to the UK I had a lot of questions
that troubled me mentally, troubled my mind, questions as to what God actually
is and what Christianity is. I went to Hampstead Bible School to study, just to
have a bit more information to find out the truth about God, the ideology, the
concept. I would say, as time went on my understanding of God developed into
something else. Instead of being a God who is into a structure I now see God as
a universal concept. Instead of God as being into particular people, I see God
as encompassing everything. Christianity sort of put God into an,‘if you
aren’t with me, you are against me,’ type thing and I believe God is so much
greater than that! I believe God is so much greater than all the religions put
together and these are just our way of working out God. That’s all it is, mans’
idea of how he sees God, but God is so much more than religion itself whether
it be Buddhism or Christianity. He is so much wider than that so my horizons
changed from being the sort of person who was a Christian and now being the
sort of person who believes in God, period. I don’t have a congregation or a
people that I belong to, the world is God; the whole planet is God; science is
God; everything is God.
I think a lot of people have come to that conclusion. So how do you fit
the concepts of Heaven and Hell into that thinking?
A good question. I think Heaven and Hell are real but our
understanding of Heaven and Hell has become sort of convoluted. We think Heaven
is a beautiful place and hell is this dreadful place. My perspective is that it’s more a case that
you suffer- you suffer bad things if you are a bad person and if you are a good
person you have a better life. The end product of everything is that whatever
you are, whatever’s connected to you, if you do bad things your generation will
suffer the penalty for that. It’s like a sort of hell or heaven in a way. A
simple concept; I don’t necessarily believe in hell fire and I don’t know what
happens when we pass on, but I think that while we’re here we can be in heaven
or hell. I can sort of think about the afterlife and have some ideas on that
but I might not be right. Heaven to me here on earth is about spiritual awareness, how
we treat people. That’s my heaven and hell.
Coming up next- a return to those meaningful lyrics!
Coming up next- a return to those meaningful lyrics!
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