Earth is hard! Why Ben Pol went for therapy

18 August 2021

• Ben Pol was exposed to a tough childhood. At the time, his stage name was Small Cobra.

Tanzanian singer Ben Pol has admitted that he visited a counsellor to deal with some of the things he went through while growing up.

Pol said this in a recent interview adding that he had to reconnect with the child in him.

'I would go to show that was packed and women were all over and I would do hit songs, yet I wasn't happy,' he told Dizzim.

This was brought about by his childhood as he was going to ding in clubs at a very young age.

"I was going to play music in bars when I was about 11-12 years. I would meet people who were using drugs and prostitutes as well, that was the life I was exposed to."

At the time, Ben Pol's stage name was Small Cobra.

When asked about where his parents were, Pol said they did all they could to bring him up.

"They did their best. That's the kind of experience that you have to do something about when you are growing."

He went on to advice that "Before you get a child, make sure you have taken care of the baby in you, that you are healed of anything from your childhood."

"Most problems we see, is because people don't want to connect with the child in them, it is very helpful for people to go for counselling."