Christmas Songs, Dec 1: Glory Halleluyah
Toyin Falola
25. Glory Halleluyah (Daystar Carol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YZuJREWhw
I bring you 25 great musical voices to enjoy the season. You don’t have to be a believer to enjoy any season!
In the spirit of global peace, our collective insecurity brought by COVID, and other problems, let us seek peace and not fame. Fame is not a blessing, as the Wollof say. Joy and peace are the ultimate blessings.
TF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YZuJREWhw
Ask yourself: how do you manage a big team as this? How do you combine multiple instruments?
Elias K. Bongmba
Dear Professor Falola,
Thank you for posting this performance. I have already listened to
it and just think it is glorious. I am not a trained musician, but
I think this piece is an amazing complex composition and the
choir executes it brilliantly. It's complexity lies in the fact
that the composer has grounded the piece in Yoruba composition
style and with a complex orchestration that explores local
instruments to the fullest. It is in my view a wonderful blend of
Nigerian and classical musical ideas which beautifully invites a
meditative and celebratory response with dance. I have watched
many of these compositions on line and think there is a lot for
musicologist to excavate and educate us on the creativity
reflected in the Nigerian Christian song today.
Elias
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Great one:
Bata drums, beautifully decorated, part of the ensemble for Yoruba gods!
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Nimi Wariboko
I also found the performance rapturous, energetic, and a fine blend of Western, classical Christianity, and Yoruba styles of music. The orchestration of the whole team exquisite: people and instruments almost seemly woven into one “being.” The team’s dress sense and sensibility were well coordinated. The colors, blending, and fluidity of their attire—the assemblage of continental and transcontinental aesthetic—captured something of (pointed to, symbolized) the multivariant bold colors of typical Christmas church service in Nigeria. Great work.
Nimi Wariboko
Boston University
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHMEYwKHFk
In this season of prayers, let us pray for peace in Ethiopia. Check that your words and actions do not create hate and resentment for others. If people hate or dislike you, ignore them—you already have people who love you in abundance. If people say bad things about you, it is a comment on them not on you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHMEYwKHFk
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…the voice, and then the voice, followed by the greatness in simplicity:
Little Drummer Boy (Kenyan Boys Choir)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCOz0p5_PTc
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The kids have gone global….We wish them well….
Peace!
Dancing Merry Christmas (Masaka Kids Africana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzoGE9MUo7o
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Let us move to South Africa, be part of their current pains and prayers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIGcovYShEw
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All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
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..that African children are great singers?
Relax, Allah Dey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZIfABig58
Elias K. Bongmba
Amazing!
Elias
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Superstar Yemi Alade converts her secular credentials, grace and skills to bless this season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDDvIJrV88
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Omotayo, you are an angel! Please, don’t return to heaven—keep making us happy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6PE34DNw7I
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Heavenly…God Himself will dance to this!!
Halleluyah Ogo ni Fun Baba (K-Sticks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgjloRuJj4
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Last Christmas (Wham!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
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IMOLE DE (Dunsin Oyekan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e2Z6kGhnVg
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segun ogungbemi
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (John Legend)
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays (NSYNC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKj92352UAE
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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Sauti Sol and Chidinma)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwrj22-gjmo
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An African Christmas (Drakensberg Boys Choir)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03G_KRhtEzM
Gbangba gbangba Praise (Erujeje)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOsxsIHP2E
Dancing Merry Christmas (Masaka Kids Africana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzoGE9MUo7o
"Ẹ Jẹ́ Ká Jọ Yọ̀" (Let Us All Rejoice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxdSNgamSc
Christmas Medly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-kfDH9ros (Yoruba)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNAy7fdFv0 (Efik)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_OQE9rrxc (Igbo)