“If they don’t get shared, then they get lost in history.
“There are so many of these stories that we don’t know about,” he said. I was so eager to wake up the next morning, and after just one month I had written a screenplay and had songs in the works.”īonner said there were several reasons he felt Flake's story needed to be told. “Reading quickly became writing,” Bonner said.
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19, 2014, on, and " Heroes and Heroines: Green Flake - Black Pioneer," by Jane McBride Choate, Liahona, June 1989).īonner, who has worked in the music industry for the past 15 years, writing songs and directing vocals for artists like Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Fergie and Ke$ha, and winning a Grammy Award along the way for his work on Gladys Knight's "Be One" album, put his professional career in Los Angeles on hold as he engulfed himself in the study of Flake. Further study led Bonner to learn that Flake was one of Joseph Smith's bodyguards and that Flake was part of the first pioneer company led by Brigham Young in 1847, and also drove the first wagon into Emigration Canyon (see "In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Green Flake’s Legacy of Faith," by Jonathan A. After that day, Bonner said he began reading everything he could, and came across the story of Flake, a Southern slave who was baptized into the Church along with his masters.