I have always felt a very strong connection with Africa, a soul connection. When I heard African music for the first time, I felt that something very deep was moving within myself, something very alive. And since then I have felt a deep and natural respect for Africa and its culture. Later on I’ve had the opportunity to visit the continent a few times and I’ve always felt this ancestral connection. Racism has always been an interrogation for me: I can’ t even understand why white people could in any way consider themselves superior to other people.

I studied international relations in university and we studied the topic of “representations”: the way people where induced to think that another ethnicity was inferior to them in order to justify the exploration of colonisation. I started to understand better. This song is a positive mea culpa to Africa: I wanted to declare in higher voice my love and respect to the Mother- continent, mother of great civilisations, and even most probably mother of all of them. It is a message to empower afro-descendant people all around the world so that they feel proud of their origins. They say that in order to fight racism, white people need to position themselves too, so this is my positioning and I really hope that it will be received with the intention I had when I wrote the song.

Mama Africa MST

“Be the One”, be your own greatest Love! You are already complete as you are, you have everything within yourself! Be who you are, be who you feel and know you are, be who you were born to be, free your soul, free you body! This is the message when we start to connect to the Source of energy that creates everything and with our Higher Self…but we keep forgetting, actually this is the game: forgetting, and remembering until we definitely remember…this song was created for you to remember! It’s a music to dance to, to celebrate you finding who you are and being exactly this! It’s the highest happiness, the highest joy! The rhythm is inspired by Afro Beat because it’s a joyful rhythm and it also invites people to remember their true identity. Afro Beat works with the entities of nature, like candomblé (afro-brazilian spiritual tradition), calling the original force  for the spirit to fight against the domination of the mind by society, politics, religion…

Be The One MST

Nobody is the “anti-hero” song: “I don’t wanna be famous, I don’t wanna be rich, I don’t  wanna be seen, I don’t wanna be screened/ I’m so happy to be just nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody but me”. The “nobody but me” has a double meaning saying that actually, the highest value in life isn’t to be rich or famous, it is to be yourself! There is no one like you, you have been created unique, this is why any artistic expression is very precious in itself, what someone creates in a certain time and space is always unique!

Nobody MST

The World is One, it's infinite, you're part of it's Beauty. 
For life is more precious than gold, every second of it, live it, live it, every second of it, live it, every second of it, One, Just live it! 

This song is about enjoying your life every second because you never know how long it's gonna last. The song is short and makes you feel like I want more coz life is like this too! But if you really like it, you can always press replay! Lol

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Djeliah is a cosmopolitan singer and composer inspired by Africa rooted sounds including soul, jazz, reggae, which she combines with subtle electronic beats and effects. Her first album Beauty is the soundtrack of her spiritual awakening journey. She is currently releasing her new album called The Sun is Rising.

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