Raymond Ayala, better known as Daddy Yankee, has reappeared in public this Sunday in an evangelical church in Puerto Rico. There he offered for the first time the testimony of his life, after last December he announced his conversion to Christianity.
It was in the Refugiados en su Presencia church, in Las Piedras, in the east of the island, where the now retired singer, 47, admitted to the congregation that “pride” was what separated him from God in his artistic career, which exceeded three decades.
“Today I might be on a tour making millions of dollars, but I am here completely free and I have a joy that the world has not given me,” the king of reggaeton began by saying in his testimony, in a video that the influencer Maikibackstage has posted. published on their social networks.
«It took me twenty years to return here, but pride was what separated me from God… Pride. That is why it is very important when we are on the path to recognize our weakness, because human beings are not born with humility. “The human being is born with pride,” Ayala continued in his testimony. He added that human beings have “humility through the Holy Spirit” and that this attitude “is the root of all justice.”
It was at the beginning of last December, upon completing his fifth La Meta concert at the Puerto Rico Coliseum, in San Juan, that Ayala announced that he was ending his artistic career, that “a story is over and a new story is going to begin, a new beginning.” », that of living your life for Christ.
«My people, this day for me is the most important day of my life. And I want to share them with you, because living a life of success is not the same as living a life with purpose,” he began by saying in a message of almost three minutes, after concluding the show before thousands of people in the main show hall on the island. .
«For a long time I tried to fill a void in my life that no one could fill. I was trying to fill in and find meaning in my life. Sometimes I appeared to be very happy, but something was missing to make me complete. And I have to confess that those days are over,” Ayala continues.
Given this and in front of his entire family, he assured that “someone was able to fill that void that he felt for a long time” and recognized “that for everyone he was someone, but I was nothing without Him.”
