for her. to. get closer as a musical comedian who effortlessly transforms have voice from velvety soft high and fragile to powerful soul times.

because you write songs about people why they come why they go why they fall in love she has called his style soul seeking music. it's temporary and. cold in paris. nikka arrived the previous day commuting between

continents as part of the music business. all 3 sing is returned to the french capital frequently to record which also infuses their music with european influences. nick has brought some recordings from lagos ideas to new songs to develop in the studio here. she meets up with musician plays and more near a producer she worked with both on her last album. you want to blaze records nick has voice on the computer playing the preprinted used backing tracks over her headphones. never word for. word for example. 'd

because studio work and lyrics are strongly shaped by her life experiences and spirituality. down the tracks step by step and dubs over onto her own original recording. did blaze get it down on his laptop. make us happy i had already done some recordings at home and my computer language just with the guitar and i came yesterday to do to do something else but then we ended up recording it and now it's become a song. it's done within 24 hours. giving. was.

deep deep. rooted. in suffering. getting. back. in never would or would for me. you never would it would for me. and i found myself down. back on track and. it started snowing. nicus freezing. escaping european winters was one of the motivating factors behind her decision to go back

to nigeria. when you're listening to the music can you tell whether it was written and produced under the african sun or in snowy paris. and does world travel and constant exposure to new influences really mulder musical style. yet we are very receptive beings i guess or i knew him as also as a musician. you hear something somewhere you might not be aware that you are taking that information in until maybe a year after. you know and then you hear it in your record saw yeah

definitely traveling around not just staying in please but just traveling meeting all of them was a chance playing on different stages. call shows even food can influence your sound like that we all kind of the winds that i see specific types of food can influence how you because then that can also have an effect on how you cook for yourself and how you cook also shows how you make music so. the called to called. inspire as you lot. as the snow is falling now i mean i don't listen to more trees but this can't just inspire me to like i don't know like create something. that the has really bugged the rhythm is maybe. dragged up pat. so it's not like.

it's not it's not the rhythm that used to it will be like me to. do. to you know but it's still there so africa is in between i knew it was on the surface even if you can see that. the. african rhythms speech was strongly in all 3 women's music. and there's another thing that makes them stand out a voice a cadence that is clearly african in origin and very hard to copy.

wow. wow. wow. from africa via europe to new york. a few years ago until e.q. draw adopted the city as her 3rd home. today she's on her way to the united nations

she's been a unicef goodwill ambassador since 2002. make up. a sign from her humanitarian work she also regularly hosts apparent affairs program for the u.n. website. 21st century french episode 6910 years it has always appealed for peaceful coexistence between races and the sexes. as a presenter she embodies a life lived between continents and cultures a citizen of the world in the truest sense. of evil i mean for the media we're back. on of age. once again his schedule is tight she squeezes in a small studio session with her band. a

song about people who exhibit control over a country's government. leak and the adventure of music began with personal a people and migration. 3 have made cross cultural innovation their guiding principle and the source of their inspiration.

all the places i've been have shaped the person i am i travel because i have the health and strength to do so and counters with other cultures allow us to grow and recognize the world and its globalism. you are stuck in your own blinkered world where everything is only black or white instead the world has all the colors of the rainbow. the fear of the foreign leads to the creation of isolated worlds and truths. but you can't just live for yourself. i always say hate and love aren't forces generated from outside and they come from within us. they took almost as. and when not in a 100 years everyone will be t.c.k. . case meaning by cultural and multicultural and i think many people find it mentally strenuous because then you can no longer say what is what and who comes from where. so it's making older people

a little nervous. and many people have music in a specific box or john or they would see it's afro pop some with. contemporary afro beat some would see it's hip hop so. it's conscious. i would say it's all of the. conscious. life electronic synthetic authentic. can we call. it a frequent flyer. on surely kids will. and. 3 musicians at home

between continents it's in the music that they have forged their identity music that knows no exclusion and transcends boundaries. it is a master of the art of confrontation and this is role for a veteran of verbal combat doesn't mean you're going to see dogs fly the undisputed champion of so full with local talk trying to frighten people you know so far everybody understands it except you enter the conflict zone and join tim sebastian

as he holds the powerful to account this is a big failure whichever way you like to spin the conflict zone. $13.00. christmas time you can hear it in dozens of languages. now countries all over the world. this song come from and how did it become such a part of christmas. song for the world silent night. in 75 minutes on d w. extraordinarily personalities stories that. look like the best of our t w reporters said. destiny's. role models. people we'd like to meet again cut.

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