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Gospel artiste, Joyce Blessing, is excited that her latest song, Victory, is doing well. She is however not too happy with the deliberate attempts by some players from the Gospel music fraternity to ‘dismiss’ her work.

Their reason for condemning Joyce Blessing’s latest song is because it was written by Kuami Eugene, a secular artiste thus making Victory ‘unspiritual’.

For those critics, Kuami Eugene lacked the spiritual discernment to write a gospel song but the Heavy Price singer strongly pulled down the judgement.

In a chat with Graphic Showbiz on Tuesday, October 17, Joyce Blessing said such discrimination against secular musicians only caused lots of disaffection and disunity among musicians.

She indicated that even though she had been ignoring such disapproving opinions, the development was an affront to Kuami Eugene’s talent.

“From my understanding of the Word, God is the creator of everything including talents. I don’t think satan, who the people claim Kuami Eugene is serving, has any power to create or even bless any human being with a single talent.

“So why would anyone think that because Kuami Eugene wrote my song, it should be condemned. I want to ask such people, if they patronise only things made by Christians. If they own stuff such as cars, were they manufactured by Christians?

“I don’t like paying attention to such things because they only breed disunity in the music industry which shouldn’t be so. We are colleagues, friends and family and tolerating this will only bring about divisions. Even God says He came for the sinful so who am I to discriminate?”, she questioned.

Joyce Blessing, who is known for songs such as Adam Nana, I Swerve, Boot for Boot, Oluwa and is involved with other well-known songs said she would not have been known today if she accepted the ‘no secular artiste’ mantra.