Kenya's Song Race · S1 E2 · "Coat of Many Colours"

[Chante™]

Season 1 · Episode 2

Coat of Many Colours
Send a song that features an artist(s) with ties to 2 or more continents

Example

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Tshegue - Muanapoto

Please post your entries in the thread below
The submission period ends on January 14th at 20 CET

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JUDGES

Chante™ / alexeh / Julian

COMPETITORS

Wys / jhr0953 / agni / Apostolis / Wysteria / Ste / Logan / Queen of Mean (Inactive) / Josh's Tattoo (Inactive) / alex(a)bg / ukraineofcourse

VIEWERS

Daniel / Lux / justin05 / Argüello / ~Rethnas~ / 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚛✌︎  

[agni]

       

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omg.
yall,  debby friday.
iconic lady, she's done the hits that no other lady can emulate or duplicate.
born in  nigeria, she moved to canada at a young age and popped off. 
representing africa & north america babes, it's time to focus
        

[jhr0953]

Bitta Pill: Kenya's Song Race Season One
Episode Two: Coat Of Many Colours

In this challenge I had to find a song from someone with links to two continents. There was really no choice:

Meet spill tab, a French-Korean artist based in LA who makes her own unique style of pop.
The song I have chosen is "Sante", a short and slinky number that seems to be a send off to an ex. I love it, and I hope you do too.




Continents represented: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America

[Apostolis]

CHIBU K.ZIAHAKI
K.ZIA is a Berlin based up and coming singer/songwriter and composer fusing R&B, Soul, Pop and Global music.
Born of a Martinican father and a Belgo-Congolese mother!

[Ste]

GIGI WELPLADE
xx


Hey little gum nuggets! So today we were totally given this fabulous challenge to send a song by an artist with connections to two or more continents of the whole entire world. How stupendous is that?! I hope there's no American gworls in this game because we all know they don't like geography! Oopsie xx

Soy I thought what's better than one artist with roots in two continents but TWO artists collaborating with roots in two continents?! I know right, that's so insane!! tee hee. 

This visually stunning video and soul-capturing track "Made of Gold" by Ibeyi featuring Pa Salieu. The song is about connecting to one's ancestors, to their knowledge and the truths of the past and power of the ancient as so eloquently described by Lisa-Kaindé of Ibeyi. The line is not broken and it is not lost. The voices of the past will not be forgotten and will be heard through their music. The power of being connected to one's roots is on full display in this track.

Ibeyi itself comes from the Yoruba word for twins. Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi are of Afro-French Cuban origin, having been born in France and spending their early years in Cuba. There father was of Yoruba descent and their mother French-Venezuelan. Pa Salieu is a English born rapper and singer. Born to Gambian parents, he spent his youth in The Gambia living with his grandmother before moving back to the UK and establishing himself as the artist he is today. He credits his time in The Gambia as the most important period of his life.



Lyrics:
I have dreams
My Forefather told me « Complete mission now »
They ain’t really broke us
They can never make our story now
My soul shows them passion
Your history walks through them golden lines
Your blood carries Diamonds
When they thought they cleared that spirit away
We are the reincarnation.

[Wys]

AZORA RIVERS
Coat of Many Colours

For the second challenge, I had to choose a song by an artist with a link to at least two continents. I decided to choose an artist with a link to Oceania and North America, as she was born in  Faga’alu, American Samoa. Now she lives in Las Vegas, USA 



Audrey English
’Small’

I hope the judges like this song as much as I do

[alex(a)bg]

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ PRAGMA TICK ♥

EPISODE 2

Coat of Many Colours

Send a song that features an artist(s) with ties to 2 or more continents

José González
El Invento


José González was born in Göthenburg to politically-active parents from Argentina
who fled the country after the right-wing coup that came into power in 1976. 
Despite not being born in Argentina, José clings onto his Latin roots. El Invento is his first song in Spanish and I believe this fact 
contributes even more to the assigned challenge!
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_González_(singer)


Continents represented: Europe, South America

And in the dawn
When everything is changing color
And we see a world appear
Full of beauty and pain

Tell me why it will be
Tell me where are you going
Tell me where we are from
Tell me

[Queen of Mean (Inactive)]

EPISODE 2: COAT OF MANY COLOUS

Nobelle Peace-Prize and the Peace-Prize Family Foundation for the Enrichment of the Rich present this weeks entry:

Clinton Kane

i don't want to watch the world end with someone else

Represented continents: Australia/Oceania, Europe, Asia

[Wysteria]

CLAMYDIA 



WEEK 2 
CHALLENGE: Coat of Many Colours 


  Tei Shi - Even If It Hurts feat. Blood Orange

Roots from each continent:

Europe: United Kingdom (Blood Orange)

North America: Canada, The United States (Tei Shi), The United States (Blood Orange)

South America: Colombia, Argentina (Tei Shi), Guyana (Blood Orange)

Africa: Sierra Leone (Blood Orange)

Clammentary of the Song Choice:
"After bombing the last challenge, I decided to step my pussy up and be different than others. Now in a challenge where we are all equal, I can shine I feel. Everyone is gonna go for 1 artist with many roots, but what if I do 2 that have roots from different continents and not just 2!!! Tei Shi was born in Argentina to Colombian parents but fastly moved to  Vancouver when she was young. She is declared as Canadian-Colombian singer BUT she also is technically Argentinian and the United States as she spent her life also in those countries, truly a doll for a whole american continent. Though in my opinion sending a north-american artist of a latin origin is kinda lazy so I added a twist.  Dev Hynes also known as Blood Orange and formerly Lightspeed Champion is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and director based in New York City. He is from a Guyanese and Sierraleonese origins which makes him the artist who originates from 4 different continents which is impressive. 

[Josh's Tattoo (Inactive)]

Kenya's Song Race
S1: E2- Coat of Many Colours

(Send a song that features an artist(s) with ties to 2 or more continents)

Are we ready to be GOOPED! 

The song that I have chosen for this challenge is Orange Blossoms by the Artist Half Waif. 

  Half Waif - Orange Blossoms  



The singer Half Waif which is the stage name for musician Nandi Rose Plunkett was Raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, by an  American father of Irish descent and an Indian refugee mother living in Uganda. Her parents got divorced when she was at a young age but that didnt stop her following her dreams to become a star!

The song I chose is "Orange Blossoms" because It's such an amazing song full of deep meaning towards heartache which you can feel in her singing. She sings about seeking help or that special someone she needs to carry on with life and not stuck in a place of heartbreak and dissapointment but in the end leads to this depressed state. A lot of people can relate to the lyrics of the song, always wanting that one person to be there for them when they need them the most. 

From the lyrical content of the song, I feel that she could also be singing about the pain she has with her parents being divorced and now in 2 different continents, showing that true separation between the parents metaphorically and physically. But also through the seeking of someone and then no longer wanting to be here meaning she has had enough of the pain and suffering that she has been through!

This is very magical and heartfelt musically and lyrically and I hope you all feel the same way as well when you listen to it!

Continents Represented: East Africa, America, South Asia & Europe

LYRICS

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[Verse 1]

Somebody buy me roses

Somebody make sure I get out of bed today

Somebody be my baby

Somebody see that I don't get in my own way

Somebody hold my head up

Somebody hope that I don’t give up, not this time

Somebody check my email

Somebody just give me the damn highlights



[Chorus]

I don't wanna be here

How am I supposed to be healed?

I don't wanna be here

Starin’ at the wall again



[Verse 2]

Somebody hold me hostage

Somebody make me think I might be worth something

Somebody take a photo

Somehow I know I won't be rememberin'

Somebody be my angel

Somebody change the angle I see all the time

Somebody fast forward

Somebody just give me the damn highlights





[Chorus]

I don't wanna be here

How am I supposed to be healed?

Everybody goes home

And the way there is not clear

I don't wanna be here

I don't wanna be here

How am I supposed to be healed?

Everybody grows up

And leaves me in the tower

Drinkin' from the bottle

Knowin' what it does to me

Seein’ every color

Slidin’ into shadow



[Outro]

While I can, I will carry

My own bags

And I will call my father

When I know that he's alone

And I will plant a plot

Of yellow flowers

They’ll be a sign

To whichever one of us survives

And when I see the ghost

Of orange blossoms in the snow

I'll know it was you

And I'm comin' soon