Christian rapper Adam Brandao once regarded Christians with contempt; now he makes music to honor Jesus and tells anyone willing to listen how that reversal happened.
“I went from loving sin, to loving righteousness,” he told Britannia Daily.
CBN News recently shared the 24-year-old rapper’s testimony after the story first appeared as an exclusive interview with Britannia Daily. Brandao described a childhood steeped in Islam, a season of rebellion and the prayer to Jesus that he says changed the direction of his life.
Brandao grew up in a Muslim household in Leicester, England. In a June interview on Revelation TV’s PSALMS HOUSE, he said his grandmother sent him to a mosque after school, where he learned the Quran and the five daily prayers.
His devotion did not make him curious about Christianity. It made him hostile to it.
“I became a product of my environment and began to see Christians as stupid,” Brandao said. “I began to hate the God they worshipped.”
As a teenager, Brandao fell in with a rougher crowd and began using drugs. Then an unlikely friend, a dealer who still professed faith in Jesus, started debating him about the Quran, the Bible and what it meant to know God personally.
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Those talks stretched across roughly six months. When Brandao finally admitted that his certainty had cracked, his friend suggested a blunt test: pray to Allah for a sign for seven days, then ask Jesus for one.
Brandao said he completed every daily prayer that week, but the silence left him crying on his prayer mat. He then spoke to Jesus for the first time.
“I felt a peace and an internal knowing that my prayers were being heard by God — a presence of an all-powerful God, almost reassuring me that I was in the right place,” he recalled.
About 30 seconds later, Brandao said, he heard three knocks at his door. No one was outside, but he later read Revelation 3:20, where Jesus says He stands at the door and knocks. Brandao has repeated that account in a full-length video interview and on his own Instagram account, always presenting it as the moment that confirmed his decision to follow Christ.
Following Jesus cost Brandao relationships. He said his grandmother disowned him, some relatives wanted him out of the house and Muslim friends began treating him differently. His mother, however, refused pressure from relatives to throw him out, he recalled in a video about his family’s response.
“If she wasn’t there, I probably would’ve had to fight homelessness and complete rejection. I owe her everything,” he said.
Brandao said family relationships have gradually improved. He also said he stopped smoking and swearing after his conversion, and that the anger and depression he once experienced no longer control him.
He released his first Christian rap song on Jan. 1, 2025, then left his job to pursue music full time. His catalog now includes songs such as “Stay With Me,” while his social pages mix music clips with plainspoken testimony.
“Don’t fall into the lie that it’s bad to ask questions about anything. Ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you,” he encouraged.
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