This is a subject I sadly know a little bit about. Grief can open up creativity or close it up. We ended up talking about what would cease you from singing. And U2’s concerts, they can be like a religious experience.”īono says, “The lion had lost his roar. He was almost selling it back to me when we had this long conversation: ‘I get what this character is he has a big, passionate feeling toward music and what it can do for people.’ That story is really about healing. But he’s not going to say ‘Yes.’ I mean, this is a lion. He would be amazing and those songs would fit so well with that kind of a story. The “Sing 2" team, he says, “knew we needed a rock legend - not only a personality, but the music that would come with them. And of course, being Irish, these are all the right questions!”įor his part, the British Jennings says he thought the pitch was a long shot. He got me talking about singing, the nature of singing, what it was to be a singer, where does singing come from. “I got lost talking to him, every which way - I didn’t know where I was. “I found myself on a call with, walking in the hills there in Los Angeles,” the singer says. It’s a quest almost as improbable as Jennings’ hopes to even land Bono for the film.īut the two connected right away. Much of the film is about the search for Calloway and how the “ Sing” gang might persuade him to embrace his gift again. In “Sing 2,” Garth Jennings’ sequel to his 2016 music-mad-animals hit, Bono voices Clay Calloway, a storied superstar singer-songwriter (portrayed as a great, silver-maned lion) who has long been a recluse since the death of his wife. That’s why I’m involved with this: I’m obsessed with what it takes to become one. When referred to as “an actual musician,” the famed frontman of U2 grins in this cozy room in his Dublin abode and says, “Well, that might be an exaggeration. And therein lies great frustration, that you depend on others - and the great joy, that you depend on others - and they happen to be your best mates.” So I have to depend on my three bandmates and others to get the melodies I hear in my head, or the ideas, across. “I didn’t have musical training as a kid. “Making music has been a source of great frustration for me as well as great joy,” he says over a video call. Today I Say Yes to Jesus.Bono is at home, literally, talking about his first substantial acting role and the ongoing mystery of what he does for a living. Grow my faith and make me the kind of person You want me to be. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. We encourage you to SAY YES to Jesus! Here is a prayer you can pray right now: “Lord Jesus, Thank You for dying on the cross for my sin. It is through God’s transformed people, partnering with God and others to help transform the world. Growing to become more and more like Jesus is a lifelong process for both individuals and communities of believers. To SAY YES to Jesus is only the beginning. Jesus likened this decision to a “new birth” or better said today, a “do-over.” Jesus also talked about our first steps of faith being like a small seed planted but then begins to grow. When you SAY YES to Jesus, you begin a relationship with God.
Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples asked him how one gets to truly know God and this is what Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life, nobody comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) It is all made possible through Christ’s work on the cross and the power of His resurrection. It means you can now be alive in Christ, a life that has the qualities of love and righteousness, joy and peace. Through His death on the cross, and through the power of the resurrection, Jesus defeated sin and death - He took all of your wrong and gave you all of His right. To SAY YES to Jesus means committing ourselves to Christ and receiving forgiveness of sin, total acceptance, and the gift of eternal life. Paul wrote this to the church in the city of Corinth “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) To SAY YES is to believe that Jesus is Lord, that he died for the sins of the world, and that he defeated death and offers you new life? The same is true for us today! Believing in Jesus is the first step on the greatest journey of your life. To the church in the ancient Rome, he wrote “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,‘ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9) The Apostle Paul wrote letters to the early church which now make up most of the books in the Bible.