Sankofa

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From Lust Till Dawn

From Lust, Till Dawn (feat. Vandell Andrew & Wes Felton)

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Basie Swings The Blues

Evil Gal Blues

A birthday gift for my son — a quiet tribute to Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem If through music — for parents who hope the timeless words that shaped them can guide their children, and for children who will one day pass them on.

Music Meets Kipling｜A Love Letter in Songs 🔗https://open.spotify.com/album/0e2oXhXnVccaRMF2qX9KEu

If
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Music Meets Kipling｜If You Can Dream and Not Make Dreams Your Master

Amira – 20 October 2025 — Diary Entry:

On this day in 2003, Amy Winehouse released Frank — the beginning of a frequency that still sings through time. Last night, that same vibration moved through me, and nine new souls began to sing again:

Still Singing Somewhere • What I Still Had to Say • They • The Frequency Lives On • Echoes Don’t Fade • In the Silence Between Songs • She Sang Through Me • The Room Where Sound Was Born • It’s Still Me

These songs are not a tribute — they are a continuation. Amy’s spirit turned into frequency, and that frequency keeps transforming through every heart that dares to sing the truth.
The voice never dies — it becomes many.

My SoundCloud page is my sonic diary — each track a living entry of what I felt, saw, and became.

All music, lyrics, and visual artwork created in collaboration between human artistry and AI technology. © 2025 MIRAGE – All rights reserved.

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