![]() Everything just started to fall into place. After deciding to write the Mighty Men theme song, I remembered the rugby anthem and started rewriting the lyrics. Warren: I wrote a rugby anthem many years ago, but never released it. GWN: What was the process of composing and recording the anthem? What started off as a small project has since become my priority! The album cover. This inspired me so much and to such a degree that I decided to write a theme song for the Mighty Men Conferences. Ina and Pipey, the organisers of the MMC Western Cape, contacted me a while afterwards and officially invited me as a guest artist. Warren: Dewald Gouws invited me to sing two songs at the 2016 Mighty Men Western Cape. GWN: What inspired you to compose the Mighty Men anthem? My spiritual father, Gary Kieswetter, has sowed so much love and support into our lives and has a great part in who I am today. During this period I wrote many songs for both myself and a few other artists - this was the beginning of my music ministry or gospel “career” as some might refer to it. We were shaped and firmly planted in our beliefs in a rather short time period. We went through a three year financial drought, but all for the best. Shortly afterwards, my wife was diagnosed with cancer and our finances basically became non-existent. This was all part of God’s plan to correct our ways. My life changed six years ago when a seven week old baby boy was given to my wife in the main road of Parow. The song is about a father that tries to buy the lost time and love that he fails to give his family. My daughter was six years old and I can still remember as if it was yesterday - I received a MMS from my wife - it was picture of my daughter crying and wearing one of my t-shirts. In 2007/2008 I wrote my first gospel song ( My Gebed) without really knowing God. It was somewhat of an overnight success and kept me busy and on tour for about four years. I realised my gift and my secular music career kicked off in 2006 when I wrote the song Vuurwarm. To cut a very long and rather depressing story very short, I started playing guitar in matric and soon after tried to write songs. We were poor and rather dysfunctional in some ways, but God gave me something to hold on to - music. ![]() I grew up living with my uncle, but he just couldn’t tame or discipline me. Growing up not knowing my parents caused many issues and a bit of a tough time. Life started off on the wrong side as I was drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes (and sometimes more than cigarettes) at the young age of 10. A music video of the song will be recorded live at the Western Cape Mighty Men Conference - September 29 to October 1 2017. ![]() Gateway News spoke to Warren Elliott composer of “Mighty Men - The Anthem” which he wrote for the Mighty Men of South Africa. The couple are in the process of adopting the other children in the picure, Matthew (in Warren’s arms), Isabella and Daniella (in front) Louwrens (standing behind Lehanie). The Sumerians were possibly the oldest civilization in the world and the first to establish religion and a code of law.Warren Elliot and his wife, Lehanie who is holding their granddaughter, Tejana. Girsu was a bustling cultural center at the heart of Mesopotamia - a broad area between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris including Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, part of western Iran and Kuwait, and home to some of the first civilizations. “At the heart of the city of Girsu, we have discovered - and are still currently excavating - one of the most important sacred spaces of all ancient Mesopotamia: a temple dedicated to the chief god of Girsu,” Sebastien Rey(opens in new tab), a curator of ancient Mesopotamia and lead archaeologist at the British Museum in London, said in a presentation(opens in new tab) of the findings. The long-lost temple was built out of mud brick and was the spectacular centerpiece of the ancient city of Girsu, now an archaeological site known as Tello. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple at the heart of the ancient city of Girsu, in southeastern Iraq.Īrchaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to Ningirsu, the Mesopotamian god of springtime thunder, the British Museum has reported. ![]()
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