This Man Breaks Down When He Finds a Song He Spent 20 Years Searching For
You know that nagging feeling you get when you can hear a song in your head but can't for the life of you remember who sings it? A cab driver had it for nearly 20 years — and the song he couldn't place had a deeper meaning, because it was one his mother loved before she passed away. In this touching video, the man is overcome with emotion upon finally figuring out the origin of the song when two cab riders are able to help him. Here's what the passenger who posted the video had to say:
This man is from the Congo. One day he and his mother went to a Chinese grocer there and heard a song playing over the PA system. The mother liked it so much she asked the owner about it and the owner gave her the tape. The mother would listen to the song a lot and the man came to associate it with her (but of course, since it was all in Chinese they didn't know what it was called, who sang it, or anything about it). Later, the mother and the man emigrated to South Africa, and somewhere in the process, the tape was lost. Soon after, the mother died.
The man was heartbroken that he had lost the song which always reminded him of his mother. For 20 years he has worked as cab driver, and every time he got an Asian person in his cab, he would hum the song to see if the person could tell him what it was, but no one ever knew. Finally, one day, he had his first ever Taiwanese passengers; it turns out the song was Taiwanese, and they knew it immediately. What you see in the video is him reacting after hearing the song again after 20 years.
In case you're curious — here's the song he spent all that time looking for.