Monrovia – There has never been a death so touching and pricking to the hearts of Liberians from all walks of life – both young and old – compared to sudden death of young musical start Quincy L. Burrowes, known on the stage as Quincy B.
The Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Central Monrovia could not contain fans and sympathizers who turned out en mass to witness his homing going.
Filled beyond capacity, thousands of young people stood outside the stadium with the hopes of catching a last glimpse at the remains of the 23-year-old that lay in the bronze casket caged with glass.
Quincy B died during the early morning hours of March 3 in a fatal road accident.
After a vigil on March 24, which brought Monrovia to a standstill, a funeral service was held at the same venue.
The funeral was graced by several tribute performances and tributes from various entertainment groupings, his family and former schoolmates from the Budumburam High School in Ghana.
The remains was then escorted by thousands of fans and sympathizers to its final resting place in Mount Barclay outside Monrovia.
Quincy B provided a therapeutic feeling bigger than entertainment. His sonorous voice and deep lyrics healed people and rehabilitated others.
Quincy B was widely loved by both the young and old folks. His music was like an eraser to the hurting scars of the first and second civil wars in Liberia between 1989 – 1997 and 1999 – 2003 respectively.
With evergreen hit songs like ‘Put Liberia First’, ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’, ‘My Dream’ featuring Scientific, ‘Tumba Tumba’ and his latest single titled ‘I Pledge’, Quincy B make his breakthrough in the music industry since his emergence in 2013 and so much consistency has kept his enviable career afloat.
Reports revealed that Quincy was from a very humble home and he had just built a house for his parents before his shocking demise.
Quincy’s parents fled Liberia to Ghana during the civil war. The young lad schooled in Ghana up to the university level where he reportedly studied Music Education in preparation for his destiny and later returned with his family to Liberia in 2012 during which he ignited his musical career of rapid success.
Quincy B might have left Liberians untimely for the celestial world but going by the belief of ‘life after death’ he could be in a better place with the likes of talented acts across the world like Christopher George Latore Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G, ‘Tupac’ Amaru Shakur, Aaliyah Dana Haughton, Michael Jackson, Da Grin and a host of others whose death reverberated across the world like the imagined sound of rapture trumpet.