CELIA
TRACKLIST
CUCALA (3:19)
LA VIDA ES UN CARNAVAL (4:33)
SAHARA (4:37)
BAILAYEMAYA (2:54)
TOROMATA (4:30)
ELEGUA (3:06)
QUIMBARA (4:34)
BEMBACOLORA (3:44)
OYADIOSA (3:27)
YEMAYA (1:37)
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“As a child I saw Celia Cruz singing in Benin and her energy and joy changed my life. It was the first I was seeing a powerful woman performer on a stage. Her voice was percussive and her songs resonated in a mysterious way with me. Many years later, I learned she was singing the Yoruba songs that were carried out of Benin 400 years before. I felt she was a long lost sister from the other side of the world. Like me, she experienced exile from a dictatorship and she was always proud of her roots, of her African roots. In the same way I wanted to bring back Rock and Roll to Africa with my Talking Heads’ Remain In Light project, I now want to pay homage to this incredible voice and those songs that reunite with their juju and Afrobeat roots.”