THE RIVER THAT DANCES THROUGH JESSIE BUCKLEY…

When you’re jaundiced and cynical, believe that you’ve seen and heard it all, and when you’re lost with Mr Bob in Juarez and it’s winter time, too, and negativity won’t pull you through somehow, and seemingly out of nowhere, this amazing talent comes along and puts your house of chaos into some semblance of order and with you able to focus on what truly matters and allow the peripheral clutter to dissolve into hot cocoa, because your personal Jesus is still looking after you. 

This is how I feel about Irish actor-singer Jessie Buckley. But why? 

Because maybe I have been floating in the blancmange of the bland for too long, listening to Chinese whispers and those who have no idea how I think, and why, just to keep the peace, say what you don’t believe in until you want to stop this world and get the fuck off. 

You have watched almost every interview Jessie Buckley has given, and see in her performances and the way she owns the songs she sings, a fierce independence and confidence and infectious joy.

You might have seen this once in a certain woman who entered your life when you were least expecting someone to not only enter your orbit, but to give it a new energy by rearranging your internal furniture so that you have the freedom to move forward and away from whatever was holding you back.

You knew that you were losing valuable time making small talk and taking baby steps instead of boarding for a bon voyage of self discovery that has somehow being inspired by this amazing 36 year old talent from Ireland who seems to have stepped out from another space in time- a gypsy, yes, probably the daughter of a forest witch and someone you want to protect and understand her hurt and learn from her healing process.

Jessie Buckley is like no other talent I have seen and heard and from whom I receive so much energy and the realisation that we might laugh to pause our thoughts as the hurt might be returning, but that we’re okay. We just need that special moment or person to enter your heart and make you who you were always meant to be.

Maybe we didn’t understand that life is always a play in four parts and about knowing when to enter a different scene because there is no past anymore.

The past has caught up with your present and you had been waiting for this to happen so you can move forward.

Somehow, it took an Irish actor-singer named Jessie Buckley to help me realise this.

---

Born in Ceylon, Hans Ebert is an award winning advertising executive whose powerful campaign to gain the Right Of Abode in the United Kingdom for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong won Gold at the London Advertising Awards.

He also helped launch McDonald’s in Hong Kong, created the Happy Wednesday brand for the HKJC, was part of the team to launch STARTV and MTV in Asia plus ran the International divisions of Universal Music and EMI Music in Asia.

As a journalist, he has interviewed every iconic personalities from Billy Joel, legendary music producer Quincy Jones, and actor Peter Sellers to working on music for David Bowie, Robbie Williams and Gorillaz.

He also coined the term Canto Pop when writing for Billboard magazine.

He has a penchant for women who remind him of Diane Keaton.