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Nkumu Katalay New Track Congo4u provides Congo as a candidate running 4 Unity campaign. The Song rallies the central African nation/the person Congo of which the artist believes is in everyone since Congo is very useful to the modern society.

Paradox

Congo4u

Congo4u by Nkumu Katalay

Pure Water is mirror of life itself. The name comes from the Biblical notion of Christ, the water of life and the paradox that life itself tends to be. In Life we are to be good despite the fact that we must coexist with evil. Water is that one thing both good and evil need since it's life.  Everyone needs water whether or not the person is religious. The song asks and commend people to get in the water. However this water is the Pure Water, a relative reflection of life through a human heart which should be pure in order to function on Earth Like how Jesus Christ heart.

The Paradox

Pure Water

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Clear My Path

Nkumu Katalay is an artist, orator, multi-instrumentalist,  culturalcurator, and asocialactivist.  Born in Kinshasa, the capitalcity of the Democratic Republic of Congoand now Nkumu lives in New YorkCity. He studied  International Criminal Justice with a focus in cultural criminology and political science at John Jay College.  Music is Nkumu's path to navigate the world. With a family of traditional healers, and faith varying from Christianity to Islam, music is his corner stone which holds fragments of his identity together.
 The study of musical notes or beats especially, their movements and patterns, and how they are similar to human cultures, remains his lifelong fascination. To Nkumu Katalay, “musical notes or beats are pieces of cultures residing within the realm of sound, and the ensemble of their interactions makes music.”  Similar to notes, human cultures are fragments of historical formation which gather under a specific civilization, and like notes, cultures are continuously seeking for alternative manifestations. So, artistically, he discovered one tool after the other. He started with the “Mbonda” or “Ngoma” (drum) and movements (dance) at a very early stage, a fascination that led to the modern drum set, to songs, to musicals, to plays and to the guitar etc…
 	The cultural and social dynamism of both New York City and Kinshasa also helped moreover in his quest for sound and movements. Both places are very diverse and rich in culture. These two cities introduced Nkumu to the world, and they also poured in him a deep appreciation of humanity. While he mainly represents Congolese music and culture, his style is a hybrid of various genres reflecting also in it the global culture. Through dance, movements, songs, folklore, drumming, games, devotions, music, and more importantly, through sound, he is able to tap into the dialectic space of humanity.  In turn this dialect enables him to express the three forms of human struggles which he refers to as justice: the cultural justice, the social justice and global justice.

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