Martin Greyford Biography

Martin Greyford is a poet, song writer and author. Born in Mkushi, Central Province of Zambia to Catholic parents.He was born in 1996, September 16th. He was the second born in a family of seven. The elder sister and the first born died at an early age in a pool of water in one of the streams in Mkushi.

Raised in rural for six years and at the age of seven relocated to the business capital Lusaka.

After some months he started school at Linda Open Community School formerly called Zambia Open Community School for a week then went to The House of Joseph Christian School for about two years.

In 2006 he was enrolled at Mt. Makulu Basic School third grade to ninth grade. After passing the Grade 9 exams with remarkably good points he was enrolled at Parklands High School where he completed his secondary education.

It was in high school that he befriended Darlington Daka whom he has grown up with, whom he considers a brother his mother never bore. There friendship has proven to be a blessing from God and such a one we can compare to that of David and Jonathan in the Bible.

In 2011, a religious revival took place in Linda, resulting in confessions of
faith among his peers. He wrote to a friend the following year: 'I never enjoyed such perfect peace and happiness as the short time in which I felt I had found my savior.' He went on to say that it was his 'greatest pleasure to commune alone with the great God and to feel that he would listen to his prayers.'

The experience lasted that in the following year Martin was baptized at Calvary Hour Gospel Ministries where he made a formal declaration of faith
and attended services regularly.

He went on to study Theology at International Training Institute where he was awarded a diploma in theology and a certificate in pastoral ministries later.

He is currently a member and leader of a church under Church of God World Missions in Mimosa. The young and gifted orator of the Word of God.

Martin is currently engaged to his long time girlfriend Leah Nyirenda the woman he met when he had gone to minister at Church of God World Missions House of Joy chapel in Linda.

He has written so many poems and composed several songs of which some are recorded and proved to be hits. Of the poems composed none has been published yet and the books.

By all accounts, young Martin was a well-behaved boy. On an extended visit to Lilanda when he was 10, Martin's Aunt described him as 'perfectly well and contented - He is a very good child and but little trouble.' Martin's aunt also noted the boy's affinity for music and his particular talent for the piano, which he called 'the moosic'

He was troubled from a young age by the 'deepening menace' of death,
especially the deaths of those who were close to him. When Beatrice, her
second young sister grew ill from fibroids and died in June,2021,
Martin was traumatized. Recalling the incident two months later, he wrote that
'it seemed to me I should die too if I could not be permitted to watch over her or
even look at her face.' He became so melancholic.

in all aspects, he is indeed a galant soldier who has proven to us death knocks on our doors unexpectedly but we need to live in reality of it that we too shall die. He is yet to write stories and compose more poems and songs.