Teino Evans, Staff Reporter

The promiscuous, always on the hunt, hit and run, unsettled reputation of performers makes it difficult to believe they are capable of a commitment, let alone being heartbroken.

However, like everyone else, they too fall victim to the lows of love, but for those who make a living on-stage, just like those who make up the audience, it's all about how you recover from it.

When the persons involved are both popular entertainers, such Bounty Killer and D'Angel, Sasha and Turbulence, Carlene and Beenie Man, the break-ups can be public and nasty. But that does not mean that those heartaches which occur further away from the spotlights are any less painful. On or off stage, the recovery comes in stages.

"Really an truly, yuh know seh a jus time mek mi recover. My first major broken heart, a three years it tek mi fi get over dat," singer Da'Ville said.

"The relationship was for a couple a years. But the last broken heart was more of a repercussion of my doing and it led me to sing songs like Can't Get Over You, On My Mind, This I Promise ... music is like my therapy," Da'Ville said.

As for learning any specific lessons, Da'Ville says it doesn't work like that.

Part Of You Growing Up

"Dem ting deh is a part of you growing and learning to appreciate the thing called love. You never really truly know if you are deeply in love with that person until dem really hurt you. So I don't really think there is a lesson that you will learn from that because it can happen again, no matter what you do, because a suh love guh," Da'Ville explained.

Hopefully for Da'Ville, it will be a happily-ever-after ending, as he says he is currently in a relationship with the same person he had done the songs for.

"Yea man, same person mi can't get over an always on my mind. I guess di song dem did work," he said.

However, quoting extensively from Khalil Gibran, poet DYCR says love and heartache are never really the choice of the individual, but they just find you.

Love Has Its Own Course

"Think not that you can direct the course of love," DYCR warned as he broke out singing 'stop in the name of love, before you break my heart'.

"Recovering from a broken heart is not really something easy. If I had known that love would be so painful I would have hidden my love with feigning to hate and disguise my true feeling with feigning not to care. I would have worn an iron mask over my heart," he said.

DYCR says for him, "Is not a one relationship yuh nuh, cause yuh meet people an fall in an out of love. Is just a stronger will; you hurt for a while and it seems as if it will never end, but after a while the feeling tek time wane away."

Despite all his pain and heartache, DYCR feels "It's for your growth and also for your pruning."

And, although DYCR is not currently in a steady relationship because "wi jus a guh tru", he has not lost all faith in finding love once more. "Wi cyan seh yes or wi cyan seh no, if love finds me worthy again then ..."

Luckily for Ce'Cile, there were valuable lessons that she had learnt from her teenage years and, as a result, she says, "I try not to make them now in actual relationships."

Ce'Cile said she learnt to confront things from early, provided that she was not in the wrong, as it hastens the recovery period.

"I felt that I was wronged by somebody and I never confronted it, many, many years ago when I was in high school and to this day I was pised. It took me 10 years to figure out that all I had to do was give them a nice cussing," she said.

Ce'Cile was not without some words of advice, however, as she said, "when you wallow in self-pity and sit around and mope, it takes longer to get over. Find some activities to keep up your time. And it's OK not to have a relationship for a while."

Given Birth To Hit Songs

Singer Nadine Sutherland is now expressing thanks to the one who broke her heart as, in a weird twist, singing about her pain has given her a major hit song.

Laughingly, Sutherland says, "that's the story behind my song Babyface. There was a babyface and he gave me a hit song so we cool. I gave him the middle finger and he gave me a hit song. How can I repay him?"

Sutherland, like Ce'Cile, says she has grown wiser because, "you know how you want to be treated but when you're younger you put yourself in all kinds of situations, but as you get older you love yourself more so you not going to compromise yourself."

Sutherland says despite managing to get over her broken heart, that does not mean that she could ever bring herself to be friends with the person again.

"He's a jerk, I don't want to be friends with a human being like that," she said.

What irks her about being in such a situation at times is when the public expects performers to be superhuman.

"I cry like everyone, but I'm a professional. But what I don't like is that people looking up in your face and expect that you gonna be happy everyday. But I guess being a celebrity they really don't think you are a human being who goes through the same pain and feelings as everyone else." she said.