Last week, Russian soldiers broke into the house of famous Ukrainian musician Yuri Kerpantenko and killed him.  Kerpanteko's crime was that he refused to perform at a concert organized by the Russian army in the town of Kherson.  It is important that Ukraine and Russia are at war these days and Kerpanteko wanted to send the message that music does not support political violence of any kind by not participating in an event organized by the country's army which is conducting violent campaigns against his country.  does it  Music is a simple expression of the language of love.

But this is not the first time that an artist has lost his life due to prejudices.  There have been many such occasions in the history of the whole world when people have forced an artist to perform on the basis of their power or, being annoyed by the performances of an artist, have considered him as a thorn in the path of their obscenities.  In fact, creative thinkers, litterateurs or artists influence a large section of the society through their expression.

It is believed that the world of realization of litterateurs or artists is honest and people trust them instinctively.  Sometimes for the sake of power, some people want to make this power of expression a medium of propaganda for their side.  But often the insistence on favoring the truth exposes those intentions who want to achieve the equation of power and do not even believe in the purity of the means.  This situation makes prejudices against the artist or the writer.  Poets or writers still express their anguish and their anger in their creations, but the seekers of sadhnas like painting or music also become puppets in the hands of the desires of the prejudice, then they have to face violence.

About 340 years ago, Italian composer Antonio Stradella was stabbed to death at a place called Piazza Bunchi in Geneva for a similar obsession.  It is believed that a feudal lord had given a betel nut to a criminal for the murder of Stradella.  It was an era of mutual rivalry between the feudatories.  Clarence Smith, Anton Webern, John Williamson, Francis Blakewell, Mark Blitzstein, Sam Cooke, Darrell Banks, Lee Morgan, Robert Ramirez, David Ackman, Eddie Jefferson, Claude Vivier, Cornell Guntur, David Robotham, Christina Grimmie  There is a long list of those who lost their lives due to ideological, social and political prejudices during the golden period of their career.