Mumba Meets Michael
Friday, June 10th, 2011It tickles me to read and hear accounts of people’s encounters with Michael, and Samantha’s story is no exception.
Born January 18th, 1983 in Dublin, Ireland, Samantha Mumba is an Irish singer and actress. Her first album was released in 2000, and her last in 2010. She now focuses her career on acting, and has appeared in numerous Indie films.
Samantha shares her 2006 experience of meeting Michael Jackson in Dubai:
“Meeting Michael was like the closest thing I will ever get to meeting a saint. He had this amazing aura to him. He was very spiritual and magical, even mythical. I was just in awe of him. The guy doesn’t have a bad bone in his body. He was so kind and had this incredible way with him.
“I didn’t know what to expect to be honest because you read and hear so much about him. When I walked into the room he was the most humble, warm, friendly person you could ever wish to meet. He also had a hilarious sense of humour. He kept cracking these jokes that had me in fits of laughter. It was weird because I was thinking, ‘I’m standing in a room having a hoot with Michael Jackson. Nobody is ever going to believe this’.
“Everyone in the music business knows he has made history. But I can still see him making another great album. I would love to see him perform. He’s a perfectionist so that’s why it takes him so long to release material. But I’d definitely be going along to see him in concert if he did a gig in Ireland.”
