Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think we can read in the song this sense of grace.
encountering the lowest point of devastation and still having a sense of the divine and possibility and maybe why the song has a particular power in the U.S.
context this place that's made of dreams and also their deferrals
Grace as forgiveness and redemption, but also this second chances thing.
We don't often think about the fact that the first several generations of enslaved people in this country hadn't necessarily adopted Christianity.
And so it makes sense that then in the early 19th century, this song would be
begin to move into the Black community as Christianity did.
It really emphasized the vision of freedom.
And so the song, just being a song that comes from the heart and mind of someone who's becoming an abolitionist, it becomes a song that can speak to the descendants of those who are in the hold of the ship.
For me, I'm not a religious person.
I define faith as belief in my fellow humans, I think.
And this song speaks so clearly to that.
It's open to interpretation.
It really is.
And I think that's part of what's so wonderful about all of the varying musical interpretations of it.
This project started, you know, as a reflection on this 250th anniversary of the country.
So quickly I understood that this was not nearly as much about the past as it is about the future.
Oh, yeah.
And that history is built on the future.
Yes.
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