KINGSTON, Jamaica — In a recent testimony, Jahazeil Myrie, son of Buju Banton, revealed that God and his father’s music helped him heal from feelings of homosexuality.

“Bwoy Father God, I hope they don’t judge me wrong…I literally almost turn fish, you see me? Because you know say Satan manipulate your mind and your character,” said Myrie, using the Jamaican derogatory term which refers to a homosexual man.

Myrie, speaking on Sheena Lyn Hanson’s faith-based podcast, Sheena Power Talk, in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, described his journey back to Jesus.

“My father’s song dragged back my memory— mi seh wait nuh my father sing Boom Bye Bye? Sheena? I got up the next day and walk go a church,” he explained.

Boom Bye Bye, released in 1992 by Buju Banton, whose given name is Mark Myrie, is a homophobic song promoting the murder of homosexual men.

Buju Banton stopped performing it in 2007 and explained the tune was recorded when he was a teen and aimed at a paedophile who had been caught molesting young boys in his community.

The artiste pulled the song from streaming sites in 2019, following his release from United States (US) custody on a drug charge, issuing an apology.

He told Urban Islandz at the time, “I recognise that the song has caused much pain to listeners, as well as to my fans, my family and myself. After all the adversity we’ve been through, I am determined to put this song in the past and continue moving forward as an artiste and as a man.”

The younger Myrie has been open about his Christian journey since being baptised in 2024.

Hanson and Myrie noted during the interview that his battle was a spiritual one, not physical.

“Almost turned gay because the enemy had my mind a way,” he explained, adding, “I wouldn’t say lust still, but the idea of it.”

Myrie shared the clip from the interview on his own Instagram page.

“While I didn’t fully understand what I was dealing with, I was facing rejection too; that door was closed at one point with women,” he explained.

He said repeated hurt had played a part in his confusion.

The artiste shared with Hanson that he had relationship struggles with women before and that the power of Christ had helped him overcome them.

“Boy, I checked that it [baptism] could have helped me, but I realised that you have to do the inner work.”

Myrie added that God had come through for him in more than just his sexuality, highlighting divine guidance and intervention in his music career and Christian journey.

“God always shows up every time I am about to give up,” he said.