Blessing Jude Okeke’s Dis Kind God Creates a Gentle Path to Spiritual Closeness 

By Emmanuel Daraloye 

Many genres of music have always found their way into the soul, in a way they fill the emptiness with freedom and calmness. But the gospel music does beyond that, it cleanses the mind and creates an abstract closeness to one’s creator, God. This is what Blessing Jude Okeke’s Dis Kind God does to the listener. The title Dis Kind God is a Pidgin English version of ‘This Kind of God.’ The gospel music was released on July 12, 2024. A song that makes you feel closer to the unknown even without being physically present in a church.

The song started with a drum beat with a soft going piano supporting the background. Blessing Jude Okeke opens with the pre-chorus by praising her God for always attending to her needs in such a way that when she summons him, he answers immediately, she sings when I call you, you always answer/when i seek you, you’re always there/eze ebube you are my God…/ While showering praises on her God in English, she finds comfort in recognizing him in her native Igbo language. A way she understands that her God understands and answers in all languages, letting us know how omniscient he is.

The chorus enters dis kind God/i never see your type o/i never see your type o/nah you be my God/Eze ebube/i never see your type o/i never see your type o/you dey do what no man do…/ The chorus was followed by the pre-chorus again but with some calm sonorous voices of back up singers who calmly took the flow as they sing, when I call you, you always answer/when i seek you,you always there…/ The lines this time around was sung in an harmonious way with different voices giving it more calmness. The chorus follows again with a mixture of Blessing Jude Okeke’s voice and the back up singers.

The chorus takes the heart of almost every part of the song, it was repeated severally and this enables the listener or the fan to note the emphasis of the singer on the nature of her God and how his blessings cannot be undermined. The drum beat, with the mixture of acoustic sound and piano plays along after the repeated chorus until a verse finally breaks through, she sings no one like you/what you bless no man can curse/when you speak it comes to pass/what you touch can’t be the same/king of glory, you dey do what no man can do…/ This verse, Blessing Jude Okeke reveals how omnipotent her God is, in times of difficulties when he makes things easy. She entertains a kind of assurance to the listeners on how God has dominance over all things. She also sings Lion of Judah is your name/lion of Judah you dey do what no man can do/. This line is an usual biblical allusion used to address God, this, Blessing Jude Okeke doesn’t do without referring him to that too.

The verse is repeated again, making emphasis just like the chorus and pre-chorus. The chorus comes in again, with Blessing Jude Okeke and the back up singers all singing together, with the instrumentals taking the rhythm softly into a continuous flow. A kind that makes the heart and soul travel into divinity.

Blessing Jude Okeke has done not just impressive work with her gospel music Dis Kind God, but with the way she carries her listener along and makes them easily get attached to the lyrics by repeating them in each section of the pre-chorus, chorus, and verse. All sections were repeated at least twice and this makes the listener easily understand the lyrics within a short period of listening. It gives the ability to sing along even as a first time listener of the song. Not just the repetition of lines, but also the simple choice of words, mixed with few Pidgin English and Igbo language. She doesn’t create complexity of language in her song as she limits the native Igbo language she added so as to allow a general or worldwide audience to flow and understand her song. This is what a beautiful work of art does to the mind and the soul.

And unlike the normal duration of three to four minutes most singers employ in their songs, Blessing Jude Okeke went beyond that without boring the listener. Good music is good no matter how long it is. The melody, the soul attraction and the rhythmical flow of the instrumental does justice to the whole song. Undoubtedly, this is one of the gospel music that helps to heal the soul and draws one attention to spirituality. Blessing Jude Okeke’s Dis Kind God is a divine work of art that listeners need to carry with them in their daily routine.