User:Elysee L Ceran/sandbox

Sondy Ceran's real name is Elysee Livenson Ceran, he is a child who endured a battered lifestyle but still succeeds and is now well off. Ceran was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the 5th of October 1993 in an extremely impoverished and densely populated area originally developed as a shanty town, Cité Soleil (Sun City). Ceran grew up knowing his parents were dedicated and faithful to the calling that God had ordained them into. His father was a pastor and his mother was a choir director.

At the age of three (3) his mom Roseline Eleazard Ceran, who is a teacher had to move to Petit-Goave, where he grew up and attended nursery school for the first time at age four. He stated, “when I get to primary school I was very sick, I was very smart in school. My life was such a mess; I couldn’t do anything for myself.” Because of this, he hadn’t any friends, no one wanted to talk to him and be in his company. Being called nasty, idiot, stupid and all sort of other names, Sondy started to feel neglected. He tried to be a better person every day in his life, but the judgments placed on him by society brought him down. He further stated that, “I was just living life, waiting on my time to die.” Today, he’s very grateful for his family, and the many prayers they had whispered, it is because of the grace of God he’s alive today.

“When the rain fell, my mom had a bucket in which she used to collect the water leaking through the roof” were the words of Elysee. He grew up in a one-bedroom apartment with his parents and two sisters. “There’s a roof up above me, got a good place to sleep, there’s food on my table …, thank you Lord for your blessings on me,” was a song Elysee heard his mom signing and questioned her because he surely didn’t saw the roof and she answered in faith that God has the roof for them, although he couldn’t see it.

One night, the Ceran’s family couldn’t pay their rent, because they didn’t have much and so they got thrown out of their apartment with all their belongings by their landlord. The rain was falling and Ceran’s dad rented a plot of land and they managed to put up a shed by cutting trees and a certain type of material they used for the roof. They stayed in this for approximately three months until various persons start approaching Elysee’s dad and he began borrowing money and was then able to construct a one apartment bedroom.

“My mother taught me to sing at the age of ten (10).” Every day they would sing together, through the struggles he would join his mother in their daily routine and even sang in church. Time went by and he still hadn’t any friend(s), everyone still had the attribute of despising him and was still seen as a castaway in the eyes of everyone. Elysee's family stood by him throughout this time. He recalled one day whilst cooking with his grandmother, she changed his name to “Sondy” which means the sun of the light. He adopted that name because he believed great things could have followed him and so he kept trying to be better in everything, cooking, music, singing, playing the guitar, which turned out to change everything around. At the age of sixteen (16), Sondy became very popular in his village and city. He was on the television and radio and so everyone wanted to be his friends then.

In 2015, he traveled to Guyana. He put up with some struggles there but was rescued by some good friends and family. He lost his job(s) a few times and used to reside in the rehab Salvation Army because it was the only paced he could have rented at the time. He saw everything as God's plan and training. Eventually, he met some musicians, which he can now refer to as friends and started out in the music industry. He never gave up his faith, he kept pushing for what he wanted.

He studied online at The Open University of London in which he completed his diploma in Business Management and also acquired his certificate in Leadership at the Chartered Management Institute London. Today, Elysee Livenson Ceran is a trained teacher, a consultant, interpreter and a CEO of his very own business, which is now emerging.

Through it all, he extends a high note of praise to Jesus for saving his life at a tender age and making him who he is today.