When the Boss speaks, you answer!

That’s what I always do. I have no choice; it’s my boss who pays me. Some times I am shopping at the supermarket or running on the beach, and a member of the public intrudes in my “private time” and shouts “Ali Singh”, or hollers the chorus of my song “can’t get yuh money back”. Do you think I will ignore and snub them? I think not. Regardless of what my mood is or what kind of a day I am having, I make it my business to say hi and sometimes stop and say a few words.

Why? Because the public is my boss. They are who - by coming to my shows and buying Madd DVDs - ultimately pay me. Can you imagine going into the office one morning and your boss passes and says “good morning” and you don’t answer because you are in a bad mood? What do you think would happen?

Well the same could happen to us entertainers when we don’t speak when our public greets. When you do not respond to your public as you should when you have an event, a person is liable to say “you see that one Peter Boyce, he so unmannerly then, I shout he pun de street the other day and he pass me like I is a bus stop. I am not going to nothing he got”.

When you need another 200 people to break even at your show it is those same members of the public that by attending can make that financial difference. So I have people who stop me in the street and tell me the solution to stop NCF and Calypsonians fighting, who going to be the next CEO of the NCF or simply to voice their support. I listen attentively. Even sometimes I am walking along some body shouts at me a jovial “Peter Boyce yuh Madd ass bitch!’
I cannot walk along with my mouth push up like an unmannerly bitch; I must open my mouth and speak like a polite bitch.

The boss has spoken and when the boss speaks I answer!

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