Brenda Edwards has mentioned the demise of her son, Jamal Edwards, left a ‘large gap’ in her life, however she nonetheless feels his presence each day.
Edwards died in February on the age of 31 after struggling a cardiac arrest.
Following his demise and the outpouring of affection for his work, the late star has been honoured with this 12 months’s prestigious Music Business Trusts Award (MITS), in recognition of his ‘excellent contribution’ to the music business as a music entrepreneur, DJ, and founding father of the multifaceted music platform SB.TV.
Chatting with on the occasion, held in The Nice Room, Grosvenor Home Resort, proud mum Brenda received candid about the ‘overwhelming’ feelings she’s been feeling, admitting she nonetheless ‘doesn’t know’ the best way to put it into phrases.
‘I don’t understand how I’m feeling. I’ve received to discover a phrase for that as a result of I preserve being requested and I actually don’t understand how I’m feeling. I’m feeling… unhappy. I’m feeling joyous, I’m feeling overwhelmed, I’m feeling proud. Principally, I’m feeling upset,’ she mentioned.
‘Nevertheless it’s a celebration of my child’s life and what he did and the way he helped everyone so I’ve received to rejoice that as a result of that’s what the Belief, and every little thing that he’s performed, it’s about persevering with that.’
The Unfastened Ladies panelist attended the occasion on Edwards’ sister’s birthday, saying that made it ‘exhausting,’ however she and Tanisha are ‘staying optimistic.’
On how her son would’ve reacted to being honoured, Brenda believes he would’ve been surprised, however mentioned he was nonetheless there along with her in spirit.
‘I believe he would’ve been in shock. He in all probability would’ve mentioned, “What? What!”, he would’ve been very shocked. However, there have been quite a lot of issues happening and I really feel his presence nonetheless with me. He’s with me. He has not gone anyplace,’ she shared.
‘Even yesterday, there have been indicators, there’s various things, and I’m blown away by that. I do know that he has such sturdy self perception in simply attaining and I’m believing that I’m seeing him and he’s right here and he’s given me the energy to only stick with it and proceed together with his sister to maintain his legacy going.’
Since Edwards’ demise, there have been numerous tales in regards to the life-changing work he did, with the likes of Ed Sheeran crediting him for launching his profession.
When requested if she was conscious of how a lot optimistic work her son did, Brenda defined how mind-blowing it has been to right here about everybody’s interactions with him.
‘He did fill me in on just about every little thing. I say just about, there’s a lot extra that he’s performed that I don’t learn about as a result of there are such a lot of individuals, each single day, there’s any person, not even any person, like, 5, six, seven individuals… in 24 hours of him passing away, I had 500 messages on my cellphone. I didn’t even know individuals had my cellphone quantity.
‘I’ve simply been inundated with individuals wanting to inform me what he had performed for them, from him serving to any person with music, with a presenting job, so many individuals mentioned he spoke to them and talked them off the sting of taking their very own lives.’
The singer continued: ‘The great thing about Jamal is his coronary heart and he’d have given to anyone, it didn’t matter who you had been. If he might assist, he would assist.
‘My son was a beautiful younger man and he had an enormous coronary heart, and that’s why it’s an enormous gap that’s been left.’
Edwards being honoured with the MITS Award marks the primary time it has been given posthumously, and he's additionally being the youngest recipient of the award.
He has been hailed a ‘visionary’ by the committee for ‘altering the face of the music business’ in his 31 years of life, with this 12 months’s MITS each celebrating his legacy and donating funds to The Jamal Edwards Self Perception Belief.
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