At the time of his death, he was regarded as one of the greatest artists ever to walk the earth. A rock superhero with an estimated fortune of $50 million.
But the money was never what defined him — it was the journey from trauma to touching millions of people through his voice.
Feelings of being sent away
Many superstars often share one thing in common — they come from modest backgrounds and have experienced some form of childhood trauma, which they later turned into strength, power, and determination.
The megastar we’re talking about today came from a family that was stable, but they were never wealthy by Western standards. And within just a few years, the family would be thrown into a far more harrowing whirlwind as world political events turned their entire lives upside down. Amid it all stood an extremely insecure little boy who was thrown to the wolves and forced to fend for himself.
Born in Africa in 1946, this boy would go on to achieve global fame in the 1970s.
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