Songs for a Sunday: Ayra Starr
I listen to music from all over the world. It’s much easier now than it was 20 years ago. I remember finding an internet radio station site that had streams from all over the globe.
At that time, lag was the norm. You’d be listening to a song and it would stop for a few seconds (or minutes) before resuming the broadcast. Some of the most interesting sounds came from groups in the Caribbean, Madagascar, and other African nations.
Global music is now readily accessible and more importantly has had influence in North American music. Not as much as the other way around, though. As the Eurovision Song Contest showed, hip hip, R&B, and pop has infiltrated many if not all countries music.
Music is universal. A melody, a beat, or the rhythm of the words can evoke emotion in the listener, regardless of the language it is sung in, or the accent. I did a post on some of the Latin Reggaetón bands two years ago.
Music Monday June 5: I don’t understand the words but it doesn’t matter, does it?
I remember my parents saying about my taste in music as a teenager (heavy metal), “You can’t understand a word they’re saying, it’s just screaming.” In a lot of cases they were right, but it didn’t affect our enjoyment of it.
“Get to the music already, Leon.“
Oh, okay…
Sarah Oyinkansola Aderibigbe, known professionally as Ayra Starr, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter born in Benin Republic.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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