Meditation for Sunday, August 7: When things are going well, and when they aren't, dance!
I just spent about half an hour searching for a song I remember hearing almost a year ago on NPR, and am so excited to have found it again. The artist is Daddy Owen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the genre is lingala, a type of central African dance music. NPR featured it on All Things Considered last year as the #1 song booming out of Nairobi, Kenya's dancehalls and churches:
To quote the person who posted it to YouTube, the lyrics roughly mean, "When things are going well and when they aren't, praise the Lord and... TOBINA! (DANCE!!!!)"
Nuff said. Enjoy your weekend.
I love this video, thanks for posting. Lingala is actually one of the primary languages spoken in the DRC.
ReplyDeleteI've been playing it on repeat!! Glad you love it too. Yes, thanks for pointing that out about Lingala as a language. Apparently the musical genre goes back decades and has a few different names, depending on where you hear it. By any name, it's beautiful. Gotta hope and pray everyday for peace in the DRC...so many gone, so many suffering.
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