PE­TER CHRISTO­PHER

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

A do­na­tion dri­ve has been launched to help with the re­cov­ery of So­ca star Dex­ter ‘Blaxx’ Stew­art who has been re­ceiv­ing kid­ney treat­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex for the past three weeks.

Al­though he had been dis­charged, it took the urg­ing of a fel­low artiste for a pub­lic ap­peal to be made to aid his re­cov­ery.

“I was in Mount Hope for three weeks, no­body didn’t know noth­ing be­side my team and my sons. We try to keep it very low. My sons were deal­ing with the whole is­sue and they can’t deal with the In­sta­gram and Face­book, the Guardian Me­dia, you know. So well I get up this morn­ing and Dawg E Slaugh­ter (re­al name Derek Pereira) just de­cid­ed that you can’t get a new Blaxx in Massy Stores. And he ask my per­mis­sion to do the dri­ve. I ap­pre­ci­ate that be­cause you know it re­al hard,” said a still re­cov­er­ing Stew­art in a short phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day.

“God gave me a sec­ond chance bro,” he added.

The ‘D All Stars’ lead vo­cal­ist, whose hits in­clude ‘Leh Go’, ‘Hulk’ and ‘Breath­less’, in a ca­reer that has spanned over two decades, was grate­ful for the ap­proach by Slaugh­ter, who pushed for the dri­ve due to the singer’s cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance.

“Slaugh­ter just get up this morn­ing (Sun­day), ask for con­sent to do a dri­ve be­cause in his words we might sit down here and Blaxx might leave we and af­ter Blaxx gone we re­al­ize we could have done some­thing to help the sit­u­a­tion,” Stew­art said.

The so­cial me­dia posts were shared by var­i­ous mem­bers of the mu­sic fra­ter­ni­ty in­clud­ing De­stra Gar­cia.

The do­na­tions will be put to­wards his med­ical ex­pense as the artiste re­cov­ers.

“This wasn’t an easy, this re­al­ly wasn’t an easy road. God gave me a sec­ond chance and I re­al­ly hope you know. This wasn’t easy bro. It wasn’t easy for my fam­i­ly, my kids, most of all that’s why we try to keep it low you know be­cause but thank God. I think we cross the hur­dle but the re­cov­ery is a lit­tle prob­lem too,” he said.

Any­one wish­ing to as­sist the so­ca star can do­nate to Re­pub­lic Bank San Juan branch Ac­count #: 320-801-024-001 or call 1 868 762 3740/753 1221.