Name: Biyya Chonta
Duration: P00H03M53S
Description: This is a dedication to the idea of escapism and healing through music. How many Black people find contemporary and ancestral connection in our musics.

Biyya Chonta

from Biyya Chonta by Kumera Zekarias

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This is a dedication to the idea of escapism and healing through music. How many Black people find contemporary and ancestral connection in our musics.

lyrics

Daily life makes us feel

Mareadas, lejanos

Disoriented, distant

En mi niñez

When I was young

Le dije a mi papa

I told my father

Que en las nubes veo otras costas

That I see other coasts in the clouds

Que entre la violencia del barrio

That surrounded the violence of my hood

Sentía que el cielo es mi hogar

I felt that they sky was my home

Decidí que la ausencia que siento

I decided that the absence I feel

El vacío

The emptiness

Solo podría llenar con la marimba

I could only fill with a marimba

Y con sus voces

With your voices

Las voces del pacifico

The voices of the Pacific

Unidas

United

Son anchas y tiemblan hasta las sierras africanas de mi país

Are broad and tremble all the way to the African highlands of my land

Ojala que los jóvenes de mi país

I wish that my country’s youth

Pudieron saber las olas del guasa

Could have known the waves of the guasa (instrument)

No del mediterraneo

Not the Mediterranean

Estamos ahogándonos

We are drowning

Oportunidades, libertad y amor

For opportunities, freedom, and love

Como muchos

Like many

Escapó en la música

I escape in music

Para el plano en donde no habrá lágrimas africanas

For the plane in which there won’t be African tears

En mi vida

In my life

Si no cambia nuestra realidad

If our reality doesn’t change

Siempre me quedaré

I will always be

En la Biyya Chonta

In the Biyya Chonta

credits

from Biyya Chonta, released April 2, 2021
Marimba de Chonta--Larry Ararat
Cununos--Larry Ararat
Bombo-- Larry Ararat
Bass-- Kumera Zekarias
Guitar--Kumera Zekarias
Guasa--Larry Ararat
Vocals--Kumera Zekarias
Synths--Kumera Zekarias
Audio Samples--Kumera Zekarias