After listening to this song, i decided to name my daughter "djarabi", word which actually means "beloved". Sona you are divine. Much love from Cameroon 🇨🇲❤️
@@alasansilla4693 Actually the word Djarabi cuts across many African languages and in one of these languages (lingala i think), Djarabi means beloved. Now i don't know to what language you are referring to but it doesn't necessarily mean that my own meaning is false. I suggest you go do some research like i did. Meanwhile I'll maintain that word and it's meaning for my daughter's name. Thanks for your reaction though.
The magic of the internet allows a jamaican living in canada to be transported back to the homeland by this beautiful music played by these talented musicians.
Wa gwan Michael from a fellow Canadian. This music transcends location, time, and race - it’s simply beautiful. But why leave beautiful Jamaica for the frozen climate of Canada - Canada is too cold.
Thousands times agreed. And this for the world over, every country, every small area, possessing so many wonderful pieces of genuine folk culture to offer. + With such a talent as Sona's !
I was born and raised in India. I live in USA now, married, with two young kids. I've been living here since 2008. My dad passed away in 2017. I missed seeing my dad alive by a day as I delayed my trip to India by a day thinking he had a minor health problem and would recover. Listening to Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi, pulls me back to that precise moment when I made that horrendous decision of delaying my trip by a day. I was really attached to my dad but never had a moment where I could express my wholehearted love to him. That guilt still aches me till this day. As I'm typing all this, I realize I've never been this expressive to anyone my entire life. I climbed Kilimanjaro in 2017 two months after my dad passed away. My trip to Africa was more like a pilgrimage where I could feel this pure, magical power, beyond my imagination. I don't know how to put it into words but I was able to connect with my dad and it made me realize Africa is our motherland and where life as we know originated. I'm beyond thankful to BBC Africa & UA-cam for helping me discover this magical music.
This West African music culture is addictive! It's from the ❤️ of Africa & Africa is the 💛 of Mother Earth! That's why so many people 🌍 from all around 💚 love & feel it 🌻✌🏻😎
The drummer plays calabash so well, of course they are all amazing, I just pay attention to the little details and I think he's got amazing sense of rhythm ! Ghana and The Gambia and Nigeria are very different when it comes to music so really big respect to them all.
I cannot find the words to describe how this beautiful music stirs something deep in my soul, like a soothing balm to my very bones. It is “heaven” and “home” rolled into one. May God continue to bless Sona Jobarteh, an honored griot, and the talented musicians who accompany her to create these sacred sounds that seem to transcend time and space.
I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of African culture. I'm 54 years old, reading "Africa is not a country" (which makes me very ashamed of the misdeeds of my Dutch colonizing forebears whose crimes can never be redeemed), listening to Fatoumata Diawara and now this wonderful artist. One lifespan is not nearly enough to comprehend the cultural riches of a wondrous continent about which I have been wrongly taught in my youth that "poor people live there". I am ashamed for not having looked beyond such cliches sooner and yet, I'm in awe of the beauty that I find. ❤
Sick and jealous people giving thumbs down bec they can never be successful at anything in this world. Everything about this woman is heavenly beautiful.
Listening From Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Beautiful music. Proud to be an African. This music is taking me back to my ancestral home. Love the Kora sounds so much better than a harp in fact no comparison.
Every time I listen to you Dr Sona I feel like crying 😢. You make me envision what African would have been if not for corrupt leaders who have no empathy n love for Africa and Africans 😢😢
@Pnumea_Reactions1: On peut également imaginer ce qu'aurait pu devenir l'Afrique, s'il n'y avait pas eu plusieurs siècles d'esclavage, de déportations et de colonisation. Cette chanson est magnifique, même si je ne comprends pas les paroles. La musique, la mélodie et la douceur de la voix pénètrent dans l'esprit et dans le ❤❤
My friend introduced me to Sona and her music and I'm in love! Reading the comments I see people from all over the world, united by music and soul. Much love to you all, my spirit siblings! Thank you, Sona, Femi, and Robert!
Le Cœur des hommes est relié par les instruments et la musique, des langues universelles comprises par tout le monde, je suis né en France, je suis originaire de la Turquie et j'écoute cette fabuleuse musique, qui est une histoire, avec une chanteuse qui est aussi musicienne et des musiciens extraordinaire, j'écoute et mon cœur s'apaise, bonjour de France à tout les mélomanes, que le Seigneur vous bénisse mes amis...
Greetings from the Saudi Arabia. This piece of heaven is what drives me to explore all the beauty our world can offer. Bless you Sona Jobarteh and the rest of this amazing trio.
I never seen a woman beautiful like you sona, you are the full definition of beauty, your voice is so sharp, your eyes so Cleared and talent is incomparable
This is what the word "groove" was coined to represent in music....that magic moment when everything is in total sync.....synergy.....This is the magic about African music, which is always there and only sometimes in other forms of music. As a multicultural ethnic percussionist, I have come to understand that this fundamental element, the groove, is the essence of African music, because it IS in every instrument, including the voice. I'm gonna go out on a limb to say, for me personally, there is nothing quite equal to the "groove" in African music.
Beautifully and eloquently said Chandra! I teach timing and musicality for my Afro-Cuban best friend's dance academy. There's a vibration in this music that connects our brain, heart, lungs, feet and everything in between in the most harmonious way. I love watching the joy in these musicians' bodies and their wonderful connection to their instruments as well as to each other. I can hear the origins of the Cuban music that transformed my life before and after aggressive cancer 20 years ago. This video illustrates the true secret of a happy life.
Yes yes play on African child play on. My heart leaps to great leangths yes. Much luv for my continent. Yes love this. 🇿🇦 it reminds me of Ali Farka toure.
from cameroon resident in qatar dicovered this beauty by mistake and every day i'm listening to her with joy her beauty and her voice got me speechless ..i love Africa
Watching this from my Island country FIJI....it's very enchanting and calls my soul my spirit to be happy( like deja Vu I remember my past lives and such a sound)....very emotional 🙏👏👏👏
Here's a beautiful description of one of the deeper meanings of this beautiful song from Mali; this love song "Jarabi, from a FB post by Sarah le Kali on Wednesday, October 31, 2012...thanks Sarah! JARABI Most Kora songs are very formal and connected with some piece of history and cultural root of Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "Beloved"), is among the most popular of Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after the independence of the Mali Federation -- now divided as Senegal, Gambia and Mali -- Jarabi was meant to capture the new national spirit of renaissance. The government supported a return to traditional arts and cultural expressions of the many people of the region. In this new environment, Jarabi was born, has become and remains the single most popular Kora piece to date. When the French were forced to leave they offered Mali the option of remaining a common wealth under the French system; the people, so vexed by the brutality of French occupation, wanted only complete independence. Infuriated, Charles Du Gaulle order the country stripped of everything. Buildings were destroyed and infrastructure was rent a sunder. The people found themselves with far less than what they had before colonization and have been recovering ever sense. Composed in this time, Jarabi is a love song which, like most African love songs from this period, is intended as a metaphor for the love of the country, it's culture, and it's people. During colonial times, such love songs would be infused with messages through metaphors meant to enjoin the beleaguered with hope and resolve...
I love how she plays this in a way where it doesn’t look like she’s thinking too hard about music theory, she plays like the kora is part of her heart and body. So beautifully done 🌹
Now I no from where Latin music come from l love my race. Africa so beautiful!! I was born in Dominican republic but Africa is a very special place for me
Wow wow ! Where was I ? I just discovered Sona Jobarthe today August 2024. I am embarrassed. Great music ! great voice ! Great band. Love, Peace and Gratitude as Always from Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, home of the 2023(2024) African Cup of Nations.🇨🇮⚽️
This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve had the privilege and enjoyment of listening to. I love it. It is simply stunning and enlightening. It provides a sense of serenity and hope.
When I hear this woman my heart fills with hope! This world can be better and Africa has a spiritual duty to teach its brothers that we can overcome differences and inaugurate a truly supportive world. Greetings from Brazil.
I LOVE Sona, the first female kora player I ever heard. When I traveled to her home country Gambia, I enjoyed incredibly beautiful kora music for the first time. One Love to these talented African musicians...
Não entendo nada do que ela diz na música mas musicalidade é perfeita. Não há duvida que a musica nasceu em África. Sona Jorbateh traduz perfeitamente os valores culturais da musica africana. É simplesmente fenomenal, inspirador, sublime... define perfeitamente o conceito de música. Parabéns! De Moçambique
The musical mathematical algorithmic dimensions of the performance are other-worldly. Thank you Sona . . . an angel placed on earth in paradise Motherland . . .beckons memories of being taken in the Middle Passage and orphaned in the Americas.
Vibrant soul ! J'ai eu l'immense privilège de rencontrer Sona au Festival "Les tambours de Gaïa" en Ariège en juin dernier , quelle personne magnifique ! Longue vie à toi Sona , et merci !
I first discovered the kora when I heard Toumani Diabaté play this tune during an episode of Michael Palin's "Sahara" when he travelled through Senegal and into Mali and met up with Toumani in Bamako.
J'aime l'Afrique mais l’envoûtante musique de la Belle SONA Jobarteh qui joue au Kora à merveille m'a rendu éperdument amoureux de ce beau et riche continent auquel j'appartient . GRAND BONJOUR D'ALGERIE
I was recently listening to a compilation of Gambian music when a song by Sona Jobarteh began playing. I was instantly a forever fan! Beautiful, melodic, and relaxing this music is everything! I will be listening to each and every video. Soon I will travel to The Gambia and I will be buying some CD's for sure.
Une des seules choses que permet la musique : le sublime par l’harmonieuse symbiose de sons, sonorités et âmes qui les émettent. Ce son est le seul qui me plonge ou me transporte dans un moment de connexion avec la transcendance. Merci Sona 🙌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
i am very very happy to knw that my gambia has a great singer like sona ... allah bless you and my sweet gambia . sincerlly i discover sona now now . never give up my sister. i am drammeh fousseni from kiang jali but living in ivory coast i dont know any thing in gambia sorry. but i love my gambia forever
OMG!! I have had this song on replay for like forever. So soothing. Truly African but yet Universal. And to see the artists enjoying the song just as much as I am, the smiles on their faces, PRICELESS! Pure RYTHM. The base from that calabash, made me buy new headphones just so I can hear it in its purest form. I definitely would love to hear this LIVE. Well done Sona and dear brothers.
i would like to meet this lady and just say thanks to her, because her music and her voice brings me back to my root, makes me remember where am from who i am. Thanks to all west African countries for having such a talented lady, she's AWESOME. Greetings from Italy
M Hy Don't insult my gambian manding sister. She's plays Manding music she is one of us. We have many griots (singer/Kora players) she is one of them. Stop trolling
Griot art marches on.....music that speaks to any being with a soul, plucks you up....and transports you to a strange but serene realm! Glad young Sona 's continues with this supremely rich tradition!
The Story behind the Malian love song "Jarabi". Most Kora songs are very formal and connected with some piece of history and cultural root of Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "Beloved"), is among the most popular of Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after the independence of the Mali Federation -- now divided as Senegal, Gambia and Mali -- Jarabi was meant to capture the new national spirit of renaissance. The government supported a return to traditional arts and cultural expressions of the many people of the region. In this new environment, Jarabi was born, has become and remains the single most popular Kora piece to date. When the French were forced to leave they offered Mali the option of remaining a common wealth under the French system; the people, so vexed by the brutality of French occupation, wanted only complete independence. Infuriated, Charles Du Gaulle order the country stripped of everything. Buildings were destroyed and infrastructure was rent a sunder. The people found themselves with far less than what they had before colonization and have been recovering ever sense. Composed in this time, Jarabi is a love song which, like most African love songs from this period, is intended as a metaphor for the love of the country, it's culture, and it's people. During colonial times, such love songs would be infused with messages through metaphors meant to enjoin the beleaguered with hope and resolve. [From the webpage: hotcopper.com.au/threads/sona-jobarteh-jarabi-beloved-kora-music.4418597/]
Sona, you are a maestro. You did not only break the barrier as the first female to play the Kora, you've got a beautiful voice plus you sing with passion. I will vote for you over and over again. You made Africa proud, God bless.
The myth of creations: in the beginning there was nothing, the nothingnesses has sound, the sound was music, in the music there was GOD! Sona..is without the doubt the gift of GOD descended from Heaven with angel like talent. Sona..thank you for sharing your gift with us...
Herman no you are not white, colour of your skin is more likely to be pinkish but your point is still valid - lol. And you and I both irrespective of not even understanding what she is saying, are drawn to thus elegant lady full of talents.
She is just SO talented, beautiful and soulful. An amazing amazing human and musician. I love seeing how well of a connection they have with their individual instruments and with each other as a group
After listening to this song, i decided to name my daughter "djarabi", word which actually means "beloved". Sona you are divine. Much love from Cameroon 🇨🇲❤️
Sorry but Djarabi doesn't mean that.
@@alasansilla4693 Actually the word Djarabi cuts across many African languages and in one of these languages (lingala i think), Djarabi means beloved. Now i don't know to what language you are referring to but it doesn't necessarily mean that my own meaning is false. I suggest you go do some research like i did. Meanwhile I'll maintain that word and it's meaning for my daughter's name. Thanks for your reaction though.
@@kamzeumboudomesperancelafo7169 It's a great name and you don't have to be so polite avec les casseurs d'Esprit.. Alasan is being Silly here
@@kamzeumboudomesperancelafo7169 Djarabi means beloved
@@alasansilla4693 so what's the meaning of djarabi
The magic of the internet allows a jamaican living in canada to be transported back to the homeland by this beautiful music played by these talented musicians.
Carry on my broda!
Love my Jamaica 🇯🇲 family from East Africa ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
And a Jamaican living in Jamaica experiencing the same. What a music sweet mi Idren!
Wa gwan Michael from a fellow Canadian. This music transcends location, time, and race - it’s simply beautiful.
But why leave beautiful Jamaica for the frozen climate of Canada - Canada is too cold.
Fa real!
Уже пару лет смотрю и слушаю Сону Джобарте в восхищением к ее творчеству... Чеченская республика.👍👍👍
Thank you!
😭😭 This is the type of music that should be played in our radios.... true African music😍😍😍
Thousands times agreed. And this for the world over, every country, every small area, possessing so many wonderful pieces of genuine folk culture to offer. + With such a talent as Sona's !
I was born and raised in India. I live in USA now, married, with two young kids. I've been living here since 2008. My dad passed away in 2017. I missed seeing my dad alive by a day as I delayed my trip to India by a day thinking he had a minor health problem and would recover. Listening to Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi, pulls me back to that precise moment when I made that horrendous decision of delaying my trip by a day. I was really attached to my dad but never had a moment where I could express my wholehearted love to him. That guilt still aches me till this day. As I'm typing all this, I realize I've never been this expressive to anyone my entire life. I climbed Kilimanjaro in 2017 two months after my dad passed away. My trip to Africa was more like a pilgrimage where I could feel this pure, magical power, beyond my imagination. I don't know how to put it into words but I was able to connect with my dad and it made me realize Africa is our motherland and where life as we know originated. I'm beyond thankful to BBC Africa & UA-cam for helping me discover this magical music.
Hope you're doing alright and your heart is at ease. Much Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 East Africa 🙏
Sending love from Nigeria. Peace, sibling
Peace and blessings to you from Cameroon.
This West African music culture is addictive!
It's from the ❤️ of Africa & Africa is the 💛 of Mother Earth!
That's why so many people 🌍 from all around 💚 love & feel it 🌻✌🏻😎
Listening in 2020!
Being African is such a blessing. The diversity of our talents is such a wonder, i love sona and her music.
Much love from Kenya🇰🇪
Say it again my brother my sister. Much luv to our mother land
I’am Tunisian I don’t understand a word but I really love Sona’s voice she’s amazing !! I hope I will visit Gambia one day ! Keep it up
We don’t like racist people coming in our beautiful country
Our pride “The Gambia”
Queen Sona Jobarteh I am proud of you...
Much love from Angola... 🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴
🇬🇲❤🇦🇴🤝
The drummer is from Ghana and the guitarist is from Nigeria. Sona from Gambia. Nice this african trio. Love to and from africa!
The drummer plays calabash so well, of course they are all amazing, I just pay attention to the little details and I think he's got amazing sense of rhythm ! Ghana and The Gambia and Nigeria are very different when it comes to music so really big respect to them all.
Cosmo Knipscheer Im looking for someone who plays kora or this kind of music, in accra for my wedding?do you know any person
+Nelia
Yes and music is manding music (gambia, mali, guinea...) One love
The guitarist is not from Nigeria. He is Habib Koite from Mali.
I'm a dominican that fills 100% african and I'm more convinced of my roots after listening to this beatiful music
Hi Bro. Much love to you, your Family and Friends.
Please stop killing Haitian one love from east gates of africa Ethiopia one love we all are one family
You welcome to the Gambia
It is placers like this where we are to unite and find ourselves. Peace and Love from Namibia.
Afrika our mother land...welcome to kenya brother....
I cannot find the words to describe how this beautiful music stirs something deep in my soul, like a soothing balm to my very bones. It is “heaven” and “home” rolled into one. May God continue to bless Sona Jobarteh, an honored griot, and the talented musicians who accompany her to create these sacred sounds that seem to transcend time and space.
Agreed.
💖true
Such a beautiful comment! As "heavenly" as the song itself.
Oh yesyesyes!
I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of African culture. I'm 54 years old, reading "Africa is not a country" (which makes me very ashamed of the misdeeds of my Dutch colonizing forebears whose crimes can never be redeemed), listening to Fatoumata Diawara and now this wonderful artist. One lifespan is not nearly enough to comprehend the cultural riches of a wondrous continent about which I have been wrongly taught in my youth that "poor people live there". I am ashamed for not having looked beyond such cliches sooner and yet, I'm in awe of the beauty that I find. ❤
Don't be ashamed of something you never did
I miss my Dad today because of this beautiful music RIP🇲🇱🇿🇲
This song makes me proud to be African
Sick and jealous people giving thumbs down bec they can never be successful at anything in this world. Everything about this woman is heavenly beautiful.
fyi You're probably not jealous ;)
The haters cannot weep, they cannot feel, they cannot love
I never worry about the haters.
Flies are attracted to the light as well, remember ;)
AMEN.
One of the bests songs I've already heard. It touched all my body and soul. Greetings from Brazil ♥️
Jarabi means "Love"
Realmente, sem palavras pra descrever.
TB estou encantado
Same feeling from morocco 👍
Vc tem bom gosto amiga, abraços desde Suriname
Listening From Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Beautiful music. Proud to be an African. This music is taking me back to my ancestral home. Love the Kora sounds so much better than a harp in fact no comparison.
I'm from another continent, speaking other language but this music touched my heart.
Like magic.
I am from Mali, we are the same people. Thanks
I'm french and love african music. Kora sound comes from heaven. We are One 🙏!
@Fatimaxn Barry don't forgot north ivory coast west burkina until south Mauritania.
@Fatimaxn Barry, 👍
One Love Mother Africa. Akpé
Every time I listen to you Dr Sona I feel like crying 😢. You make me envision what African would have been if not for corrupt leaders who have no empathy n love for Africa and Africans 😢😢
@Pnumea_Reactions1: On peut également imaginer ce qu'aurait pu devenir l'Afrique, s'il n'y avait pas eu plusieurs siècles d'esclavage, de déportations et de colonisation. Cette chanson est magnifique, même si je ne comprends pas les paroles. La musique, la mélodie et la douceur de la voix pénètrent dans l'esprit et dans le ❤❤
My friend introduced me to Sona and her music and I'm in love! Reading the comments I see people from all over the world, united by music and soul. Much love to you all, my spirit siblings! Thank you, Sona, Femi, and Robert!
Spirit siblings is a beautiful description...love and blessings to you too dear one.❤
@@katedavies9578 Love, warm hugs and blessings to you!
Le Cœur des hommes est relié par les instruments et la musique, des langues universelles comprises par tout le monde, je suis né en France, je suis originaire de la Turquie et j'écoute cette fabuleuse musique, qui est une histoire, avec une chanteuse qui est aussi musicienne et des musiciens extraordinaire, j'écoute et mon cœur s'apaise, bonjour de France à tout les mélomanes, que le Seigneur vous bénisse mes amis...
H I'll😅0
This sent shivers deep in my soul and brought tears to my eyes. We need more music like this, pure energy and genuineness. Hats off
Greetings from the Saudi Arabia. This piece of heaven is what drives me to explore all the beauty our world can offer. Bless you Sona Jobarteh and the rest of this amazing trio.
Sona is the first Gambian female to play Kora.. You make Gambia proud you are the best
The Ordered Spirit I also heard she is related to the legendary Toumani diabate
Gambia = Paradise 🙏🇬🇲
@@SilkeBuchhorn ❤ have you ever been there ??
Are you sure? Because I know many women in Gambia that do is just that they are not well known
@@TheHijabfatima you have any referrals we can hear
❣️Love from Denmark (Scandinavia) Heavenly song 🎶
I never seen a woman beautiful like you sona, you are the full definition of beauty, your voice is so sharp, your eyes so Cleared and talent is incomparable
Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago
10 seconds in; and I was already in heaven. Greetings and love from South Africa
Me encanta tu voz y tu música ❤️
Great music.
In love with this song, lots of love from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 for Africa
Cette femme dégage quelque chose d’inexplicable quand elle chante ❤. Mercii beaucoup pour toutes ces belles mélodie 🎶🙏🏽✨
I a South African we are the same, much love from South Africa.
This is so beautiful in many ways. 💜
God bless africa.
It's a thing of beauty, people at their best.
Qui écoute ça en 2021 !!!Que ça me fait du bien d’écouter cet chanson mandingue .... que de douceur et grâce ça m’apaise énormément merci 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Superbe voix super sont ça me transporte !! Malheureusement je ne comprends pas les paroles . Pouvez vous me dire ce qu elle chante ? 🤗
I am Somali and I just found this beoutifull African Queen with her amazing voice and amazing music. I can't stop listening to her .
She speaks about love "jarabi" Mean love sweetheart, darling for thoses who are asking. Peace from 🇸🇳🇸🇳✌🏽
Hatôpè. I'm from Guadeloupe. I like it👂🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿🥰🥰😇
Beautiful music! I lived & worked in Senegal, West Africa, for a year, and I fell in love with kora music.
This is what the word "groove" was coined to represent in music....that magic moment when everything is in total sync.....synergy.....This is the magic about African music, which is always there and only sometimes in other forms of music. As a multicultural ethnic percussionist, I have come to understand that this fundamental element, the groove, is the essence of African music, because it IS in every instrument, including the voice. I'm gonna go out on a limb to say, for me personally, there is nothing quite equal to the "groove" in African music.
What a beautiful and true comment
i think it has to do with a way of listening
What a wonderful comment Chandra! I agree completely.
Ancestrial voices..reminding us...they walk with us...
Beautifully and eloquently said Chandra! I teach timing and musicality for my Afro-Cuban best friend's dance academy. There's a vibration in this music that connects our brain, heart, lungs, feet and everything in between in the most harmonious way. I love watching the joy in these musicians' bodies and their wonderful connection to their instruments as well as to each other. I can hear the origins of the Cuban music that transformed my life before and after aggressive cancer 20 years ago. This video illustrates the true secret of a happy life.
Yes yes play on African child play on. My heart leaps to great leangths yes. Much luv for my continent. Yes love this.
🇿🇦 it reminds me of Ali Farka toure.
from cameroon resident in qatar dicovered this beauty by mistake and every day i'm listening to her with joy her beauty and her voice got me speechless ..i love Africa
a random citizen from Ethiopia enjoying this beautiful master piece ... thank you UA-cam
The most beautiful continent in the world is Africa. I love to dwell in it till I die.
Watching this from my Island country FIJI....it's very enchanting and calls my soul my spirit to be happy( like deja Vu I remember my past lives and such a sound)....very emotional 🙏👏👏👏
Thats a pure definition of African finest and identicality of Music .
All the way from Angola
Here's a beautiful description of one of the deeper meanings of this beautiful song from Mali;
this love song "Jarabi, from a FB post by Sarah le Kali on Wednesday, October 31, 2012...thanks Sarah!
JARABI
Most Kora songs are very formal and connected with some piece of history and cultural root of Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "Beloved"), is among the most popular of Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after the independence of the Mali Federation -- now divided as Senegal, Gambia and Mali -- Jarabi was meant to capture the new national spirit of renaissance. The government supported a return to traditional arts and cultural expressions of the many people of the region. In this new environment, Jarabi was born, has become and remains the single most popular Kora piece to date. When the French were forced to leave they offered Mali the option of remaining a common wealth under the French system; the people, so vexed by the brutality of French occupation, wanted only complete independence. Infuriated, Charles Du Gaulle order the country stripped of everything. Buildings were destroyed and infrastructure was rent a sunder. The people found themselves with far less than what they had before colonization and have been recovering ever sense. Composed in this time, Jarabi is a love song which, like most African love songs from this period, is intended as a metaphor for the love of the country, it's culture, and it's people. During colonial times, such love songs would be infused with messages through metaphors meant to enjoin the beleaguered with hope and resolve...
Thank you! I have used your quote as an intro/synopsis/background when sharing with my family.
Suzanne Lerner wow! Thank you for this, extremely extremely illuminating.
Translation of this song please
Thanks for this explanation. Quite insightful.
Jarabi means love n'jarabi means my love which you can't translate to beloved. The kora is MANDING instrument, which The mende are sub groups of
I love how she plays this in a way where it doesn’t look like she’s thinking too hard about music theory, she plays like the kora is part of her heart and body. So beautifully done 🌹
Much love ...all the way from Ethiopia
I love Africa and all their people. Their success is my success. From America, we are cousins.
U
Thanks à lot.JK
Lorraine Talley God bless you child of Africa.
Their success is my success! Absolutely. I wish more of our people understood this. So important. Brilliantly stated miss Lorraine
@@jkemo1 .
Now I no from where Latin music come from l love my race. Africa so beautiful!! I was born in Dominican republic but Africa is a very special place for me
latin music come from arabic influence
@@isla2202 and African influence you can’t deny that
@@betsybunila9743 North African...which is a mixtures of Arabic and berber
@@isla2202 lol you think music from the Dominican do not have black African influences then you are obviously stupid
@@betsybunila9743 You sound pissed and ignorant.
I am yellOw, 55 and from Argentina, this fits top my Soul, to my State of mind, free Gambia
Wow wow ! Where was I ? I just discovered Sona Jobarthe today August 2024. I am embarrassed. Great music ! great voice ! Great band. Love, Peace and Gratitude as Always from Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, home of the 2023(2024) African Cup of Nations.🇨🇮⚽️
Je suis en clinique... Ça fait du bien d'entendre Sona et son jarabi... Une femme ici, m'a dit que cela veut dire Amour
This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve had the privilege and enjoyment of listening to. I love it. It is simply stunning and enlightening. It provides a sense of serenity and hope.
When I hear this woman my heart fills with hope! This world can be better and Africa has a spiritual duty to teach its brothers that we can overcome differences and inaugurate a truly supportive world. Greetings from Brazil.
Jarabi is one of those timeless African songs, hauntingly beautiful
Ahah Sona🥰
May you live long sister! Luv from your Cameroonian sister living in AK, USA.
This music speaks to my soul. I hear the stories of my African ancestors. Beautiful!
I LOVE Sona, the first female kora player I ever heard. When I traveled to her home country Gambia, I enjoyed incredibly beautiful kora music for the first time. One Love to these talented African musicians...
Many thanks for this beautiful song 🙏🏼 Djarabi West Africa 💚
Não entendo nada do que ela diz na música mas musicalidade é perfeita. Não há duvida que a musica nasceu em África. Sona Jorbateh traduz perfeitamente os valores culturais da musica africana. É simplesmente fenomenal, inspirador, sublime... define perfeitamente o conceito de música. Parabéns!
De Moçambique
The musical mathematical algorithmic dimensions of the performance are other-worldly. Thank you Sona . . . an angel placed on earth in paradise Motherland . . .beckons memories of being taken in the Middle Passage and orphaned in the Americas.
Heard it from a friend, so in love with this piece everything is just so perfect. Much love from Kenya 🇰🇪 ❤
Thumbs up from Morocco 🇲🇦, beautiful music 🎶. Love u mama Africa 😄
God bless you
Very talented..Much love for Sona and her band...From Nairobi
Vibrant soul ! J'ai eu l'immense privilège de rencontrer Sona au Festival "Les tambours de Gaïa" en Ariège en juin dernier , quelle personne magnifique ! Longue vie à toi Sona , et merci !
Vous avez bien de la chance de l'avoir rencontrée !
Завидую вам белой завистью...
I first discovered the kora when I heard Toumani Diabaté play this tune during an episode of Michael Palin's "Sahara" when he travelled through Senegal and into Mali and met up with Toumani in Bamako.
J'aime l'Afrique mais l’envoûtante musique de la Belle SONA Jobarteh qui joue au Kora à merveille m'a rendu éperdument amoureux de ce beau et riche continent auquel j'appartient .
GRAND BONJOUR D'ALGERIE
I was recently listening to a compilation of Gambian music when a song by Sona Jobarteh began playing. I was instantly a forever fan! Beautiful, melodic, and relaxing this music is everything! I will be listening to each and every video. Soon I will travel to The Gambia and I will be buying some CD's for sure.
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Sona Jobarteh...what a beautiful gift to the world.
Very good song beautiful girl.god bless you
You have said it. Have fallen in love with her songs.
Une des seules choses que permet la musique : le sublime par l’harmonieuse symbiose de sons, sonorités et âmes qui les émettent.
Ce son est le seul qui me plonge ou me transporte dans un moment de connexion avec la transcendance.
Merci Sona 🙌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
i am very very happy to knw that my gambia has a great singer like sona ... allah bless you and my sweet gambia . sincerlly i discover sona now now . never give up my sister. i am drammeh fousseni from kiang jali but living in ivory coast i dont know any thing in gambia sorry. but i love my gambia forever
Evening Africa breathes and sings with Sona, composing their fairy tales under the light of the moon
Siberia loves you and listens. All the best to you! We look forward to someday!
touches the bottom of my heart. Brings up tears, so beautiful
OMG!! I have had this song on replay for like forever. So soothing. Truly African but yet Universal. And to see the artists enjoying the song just as much as I am, the smiles on their faces, PRICELESS! Pure RYTHM. The base from that calabash, made me buy new headphones just so I can hear it in its purest form. I definitely would love to hear this LIVE. Well done Sona and dear brothers.
i would like to meet this lady and just say thanks to her, because her
music and her voice brings me back to my root, makes me remember where
am from who i am.
Thanks to all west African countries for having such a talented lady,
she's AWESOME.
Greetings from Italy
I like the cora since my first time in Western Africa. ❤❤❤❤❤
As an African living abroad, I just need to close my eyes and connect my soul to the motherland. Afreeka
Thanks 😍 I am so grateful You guys are on earth in these hard Times.
Beautiful beautiful song Sona...
Much love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
she is a true testimony to African musical heritage
M Hy Don't insult my gambian manding sister. She's plays Manding music she is one of us. We have many griots (singer/Kora players) she is one of them. Stop trolling
M Hy if she didn't who would fill that gap
They as in them not just her... Power of music brings People together... Ase' uhuru mubuntu
Just came across this pearl randomly... Loved it ❤... Bless Africa... From 🇨🇻🇵🇹🇬🇧
What a beautiful artist and sound. Please consider coming to Portland, Oregon. Our town is very progressive, loving all kinds of music. ❤
Griot art marches on.....music that speaks to any being with a soul, plucks you up....and transports you to a strange but serene realm! Glad young Sona 's continues with this supremely rich tradition!
Wow what a nice voice.
Am addicted to this song.
Fact u are so beautiful ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Ur FAN'S from Nigeria 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
Yeah this song will be on repeat for the rest of my life on this earth.
Oh wow yeah wow
💚💛♥️👌 greeting along from Ethiopia
Next level Seriously: to say farewell to traditional male-positions is breaking up with history. So much harmony and peace to go on with this music❣️
The Story behind the Malian love song "Jarabi".
Most Kora songs are very formal and connected with some piece of history and cultural root of Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "Beloved"), is among the most popular of Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after the independence of the Mali Federation -- now divided as Senegal, Gambia and Mali -- Jarabi was meant to capture the new national spirit of renaissance. The government supported a return to traditional arts and cultural expressions of the many people of the region. In this new environment, Jarabi was born, has become and remains the single most popular Kora piece to date. When the French were forced to leave they offered Mali the option of remaining a common wealth under the French system; the people, so vexed by the brutality of French occupation, wanted only complete independence. Infuriated, Charles Du Gaulle order the country stripped of everything. Buildings were destroyed and infrastructure was rent a sunder. The people found themselves with far less than what they had before colonization and have been recovering ever sense. Composed in this time, Jarabi is a love song which, like most African love songs from this period, is intended as a metaphor for the love of the country, it's culture, and it's people. During colonial times, such love songs would be infused with messages through metaphors meant to enjoin the beleaguered with hope and resolve. [From the webpage: hotcopper.com.au/threads/sona-jobarteh-jarabi-beloved-kora-music.4418597/]
Powerful words
Life without music is no life at all. Thank you. Bless you and yours. Gx
my band director played this for us last year and i've been coming back to it since. such a gorgeous piece
greeting with much love from Ethiopia via America..
Sona, you are a maestro. You did not only break the barrier as the first female to play the Kora, you've got a beautiful voice plus you sing with passion. I will vote for you over and over again. You made Africa proud, God bless.
The myth of creations: in the beginning there was nothing, the nothingnesses has sound, the sound was music, in the music there was GOD! Sona..is without the doubt the gift of GOD descended from Heaven with angel like talent. Sona..thank you for sharing your gift with us...
My skin is as white as the milk of the cows my country is famous for. But my soul knows all the colours of the world. I just love this!
Herman Papillon Looool! And yes Music can bring everyone together
Herman Papillon you said right there your soul that's the most important thing to being human the body is just a vessel nothing more
To all THUMBS~UP: possibly WorldDrumming in Synchrony someday///HARMONIC PLANETARY RESONANCE
My skin is as dark as the dark night bt i'm a person of living planet
Herman no you are not white, colour of your skin is more likely to be pinkish but your point is still valid - lol. And you and I both irrespective of not even understanding what she is saying, are drawn to thus elegant lady full of talents.
She is just SO talented, beautiful and soulful. An amazing amazing human and musician. I love seeing how well of a connection they have with their individual instruments and with each other as a group
Merci Sonia la princesse de GAMBIE, c'est très rare de voir des femmes qui maîtrise ce instrument de musique tu es unique.
My tears can’t stop running down 😢