‘Yahweh’ song ministered to her years before she released it

Zimbabwean music artist Dr Tamsyn Sian waited for over 10 years before releasing her latest song, Yahweh, in South Africa on March 28.

The song literally helped her endure the most desperate season of her life – and it is a testimony to God’s faithfulness to “give double for the shame” to His children who suffer undeserved abuse, shame and loss, she told Gateway News.

The doctor of performing arts, entrepreneur-minister, wife and “mother of a tribe of children”, said she was born to artistic parents – a Black Zimbabwean/Mozambican musician father and a Coloured educator mother.

Tamsyn said that since the age of seven she has had vivid prophetic dreams and visions in which she saw heavenly beings. Her spiritual gift only started to make sense during a time of “awakening” in the 1990s when she and her family became involved in the Coptic Christian Church in Zimbabwe. Later the family became Evangelical Pentecostals.

Because of her mixed-race background she said she was judged at school for not being “black enough” and was also regarded as not “white enough” by some of her lighter-skinned relatives. This influenced her to be fiercely independent and to strive for success. She excelled in academics, sports and the arts – especially music.

Now fluent in seven languages,Tamsyn went to university in Brazil. Her father wanted her to study forensic biochemistry but in the end she pursued creative performing arts, sensing it was her calling. In Brazil she encountered the occult and her faith was put to the test in much spiritual warfare. After she was badly injured in a freak accident in Brazil, doctors told her she would never walk again. But she was back on her feet two weeks after undergoing surgery in Zimbabwe.

Her life, however, unraveled during a “very abusive” decade of marriage. She was a leader in her church at the time and friends and colleagues told her that despite the constant physical, emotional and financial abuse she was facing, divorce was not an option.

“But they were not the ones who were being bashed and strangled, you know,” she said.

During this time she repeatedly fasted for long periods and prayed and called on the name of “Yahweh”.

Once during a time of intense prayer she had a vision in which she was surrounded by enemies that looked like predatory animals. Then a great male lion appeared and the enemies scattered. The huge lion attacked the fleeing enemies then it approached Tamsyn where she lay in terror. Unable to speak with her voice, she whispered with her heart, saying: “Lion of Judah.” The lion gently rested a paw on her shoulder and breathed on her three times. Then it left.

“And I just, I just felt like total peace. So, for me, I mean, that was when I understood that it is He who calls, it is He who marks, it is He who ordains. He – not man.” 

On one, decisive day, she dreamed she was in the Court of Heaven. She was aware of a great Presence in the room and heard the Accuser shrieking for her. Then a very soft, warm, uncompromising voice said: “No, she is mine.”

She said God told her: ”I release you, go.”

Tamsyn said she did not think twice. “I just left with the clothes I was wearing and the kids. I said: ’I don’t know what we eat.’ He said: ‘That’s not your business. I am your Lord and I will take care of that.’”

Then she remembers singing what became a refrain in her Yahweh song: “You give me double for my shame. That’s your promise to me, my King. You turn my mourning into joy, ashes into beauty.”

She said that the song helped her to hold onto hope during that season in which she had lost her material possessions and was judged and alone.

“Whenever I would sing the song, it would bring me to my knees and I would stand on that word and I would say:’Lord, you promised.’”

“So fast forward the story. He has given me restoration in so many different areas of my life. He gave me a godly spouse whose purposes are intertwined with mine. We had absolutely no idea. that what we were both going through was leading up to us being together. You get diverted from destiny and then you find yourself back on course,” said Tamsyn.

Dr Tammy, as she is known in the music industry, is married to Harare orthopaedic surgeon Dr Valentine Mandizvidza. The couple lead a ministry together. She heads up a school of performing arts and a trauma counselling ministry. She also owns a beauty salon which provides work to young Christian creatives. And she is completing a doctorate in theology with Jiazo Bible College University.

How does she fit so much into her life? Tamsyn said she schedules everything on a priority basis and does not compromise on her prayer time or family time. 

Their busy household includes children from pre-school to university age. 

“I personally do my school runs each morning, so I can encourage the children and set them up for success during the day,” she said.

Dr Tammy’s song, Yahweh, is available on all digital platforms. You can find out more about her at Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557707702902 and Youtube:    https://youtube.com/@DrTammySian?si=0nEP5ZCcOgCIMSaq

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