DID THE MUSIC INDUSTRY DESERT LATE ZARA GRETTI AT HER MOMENT OF NEED?

By Kolapo Olapoju

Budding Singer, Zara Gretti, better known as Margaret-Mary Joseph passed away yesterday Friday, March 28, 2014, after living with, and suffering from ‘Multiple sclerosis (MS)’ for several years, which eventually led to her demise.

28-year-old Zara kicked the bucket on Friday morning at her Ogba-Aguda, Lagos residence.

Multiple sclerosis is a terminal condition/disease where your body’s immune system eats away at the protective sheath that covers your nerves.

The singer, who achieved relative fame with her singles, ‘Teno’ and ‘The flyest’, on Thursday night had tweeted that, ‘I love and hate my life’, which would serve as her last communication with the world.

According to her manager, IK Tripz a.k.a Onyenania Ikechukwu, she was at the last stage of recording her debut EP, ‘Colors of my Heart’, before death snatched her away.

Although several celebrities have shown support with words and tributes via social media, but reports say many of them did not lift a finger to help her while she was yet alive.

Zara and Don Jazzy

Zara, a lively, likeable and quite popular personality within the music industry, needed precisely $23,000 (Approximately N3.8million) for a treatment which would alleviate her condition. Through IK Tripz, she opened an online charity fund account, ‘Gofundme.com’, in June 2013, yet till her passing, she was only able to raise $14,046 (Approximately N2.3million).

Zara and former manager, Toni Payne

Reports say that she made incessant attempts to seek assistance from her colleagues to come to her aid, but they were unfortunately unresponsive to her pleas and cries.

Zara and producer, Kid connect

This further goes to buttress the allusion that the music industry indeed abandoned her at her hour of need, while they promptly rose to save Ace producer, OJB Jezreel’s life when he needed to India for Kidney Transplant.