'The brain tumour did not kill Christian...' Lovy Longomba explains

Piece by: Grace Kerongo
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Pop singer Christian Longomba battled for his life after a brain tumour surgery 6 years ago. Doctors predicted that he would live for two or three years maximum after the surgery but he exceeded that by over 4 years.

Christian was hospitalised for two weeks at the Downtown Los Angeles hospital before he breathed his last on Saturday evening. Lovy Longomba was by his bedside.

Today morning, Lovy posted a tribute video where he detailed how Christian battled with his health.

"You know even to the last few years, and the last few days, Christian was laughing, he was energetic, he was dancing. Man, even in pain he still knew how to laugh, he would enjoy himself even to the last days."

He added,

"Every morning I would go downstairs and check up on him and now I can't do that any more...wow. It is crazy. he had alot of love around him, too much love."

Lovy continued,

"I'm not crying because I don't know where Christian is, I know where he is, God told me exactly when it was going to happen, we are not surprised by it, you know, living through it is a different thing."

He explained what led to Christian's death.

"The complications Christian had were not from the tumour but what the tumour had done. When he had his surgery 6 and half years ago that is when the damage of the tumour kinda set in."

Lovy noted,

"It wasn't cancerous, it was malignant but it was very big by the time they took it out the damage it had caused to the brain was just crazy. The doctors actually expected him to live normal for 2 to 3 years but Christian outlived that by 7 years.

Fighting back tears he added,

"I'm grateful that God gave me a brother like him, a partner that I would go through life with to this point we have to keep going on. For those who knew him and are really heartbroken, let's be strong. It is hard but, look at me, I'm usually the strongest human being, still, I am but man, the separation is real."

There will be a mini tribute concert to be hosted later this week to pay tribute to the life of Christian Longomba and the mark he left in the music industry.