Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi
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- čas přidán 27. 02. 2011
- Sona Jobarteh hails from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players; her grandfather was the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh.
Creating her own history, she has broken from the male-dominated kora tradition to become the family's first female virtuoso of the instrument.
Here Sona Jobarteh performs the traditional Malian song, Jarabi, accompanied by Femi Temowo on guitar and percussionist Robert Fordjour. - Hudba
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!
Gambia the very heart of Africa, but eerybody thinks for self...
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.
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
😭😭 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 !
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 🌻✌🏻😎
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!
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....
She speaks about love "jarabi" Mean love sweetheart, darling for thoses who are asking. Peace from 🇸🇳🇸🇳✌🏽
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
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!
This song makes me proud to be African
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 .
I'm from Bosnia, Sarajevo living in US since 2004. Can't stop listening to Sona Jobarteh. What an artist OMG. I want to hug her and thank her for her beautiful and meaningful music and lyrics. My fave is Meeya of off he new CD. N'na Duniyaa for the movie Beast, with awesome. Idris Elba is outstanding, too. Love them both.
Уже пару лет смотрю и слушаю Сону Джобарте в восхищением к ее творчеству... Чеченская республика.👍👍👍
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
Queen Sona Jobarteh I am proud of you...
Much love 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
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
Our pride “The Gambia”
Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago
I'm from another continent, speaking other language but this music touched my heart.
Like magic.
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.
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 ❤❤
I miss my Dad today because of this beautiful music RIP🇲🇱🇿🇲
The sound of the kora is wonderfully gentle.
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
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.
That is what ancient harp sounded like!!
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.
I a South African we are the same, much love from South Africa.
After listening to death metal all my life this tune is like a breath of fresh air
Good good
Check out her song Gambia, beautiful melodies
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.
Thumbs up from Morocco 🇲🇦, beautiful music 🎶. Love u mama Africa 😄
God bless you
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.
Africa the origin of 🎶 music. Love from Ghana 🇬🇭
Ahah Sona🥰
May you live long sister! Luv from your Cameroonian sister living in AK, USA.
IF I'M EVER IN A COMA,PLAY THIS FOR ME....I WILL WAKE UP
lol
Ha ha. True .thanks a good one. Kora by the way is the best string instrument. Soothing.
Loool
HAHA I SEE YOU ! I LOVE YOU !
LOL
10 seconds in; and I was already in heaven. Greetings and love from South Africa
Me encanta tu voz y tu música ❤️
Great music.
❣️Love from Denmark (Scandinavia) Heavenly song 🎶
The most beautiful continent in the world is Africa. I love to dwell in it till I die.
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
My God I love this woman and her heavenly music😇
I began following her after i discovered her song titled Gambia. She has a heavenly voice and beauty too :)
I like the cora since my first time in Western Africa. ❤❤❤❤❤
What a beautiful artist and sound. Please consider coming to Portland, Oregon. Our town is very progressive, loving all kinds of 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.
This is so beautiful in many ways. 💜
God bless africa.
It's a thing of beauty, people at their best.
Hatôpè. I'm from Guadeloupe. I like it👂🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿🥰🥰😇
greeting with much love from Ethiopia via America..
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
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 🙏👏👏👏
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.
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. ❤
Many thanks for this beautiful song 🙏🏼 Djarabi West Africa 💚
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 .
Evening Africa breathes and sings with Sona, composing their fairy tales under the light of the moon
Sona from the Gambia we Gambian are proud of you
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 ? 🤗
When I wonder what heaven sounds like, I picture this 🌅🎶🙌💞✨🙏
Idk how I end up here but I'm glad I did.
Wow what a nice voice.
Am addicted to this song.
Fact u are so beautiful ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Ur FAN'S from Nigeria 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
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
Heard it from a friend, so in love with this piece everything is just so perfect. Much love from Kenya 🇰🇪 ❤
a random citizen from Ethiopia enjoying this beautiful master piece ... thank you CZcams
A queen & two king from the parts of west Africa passing a time away in peace.
Beautiful music! I lived & worked in Senegal, West Africa, for a year, and I fell in love with kora music.
who could give this a thumbs down?? she's amazing Shame on you
Tom J by mistake maybe
Tom J Must be first time you tube users. High chance is they don't know the difference between thumbs up and thumbs down.
samson ojwang...Maybe some of them yes; but there seem to be people who likes to put thumbs down on things as a " hobby " too I believe. For this video I can not see any reason to put any thumb down, so it really looks strange to see as many as 273 of them at this moment.
Tom J people whithout soul
There are very evil people here who go intentionally into any videos with black people or African culture and write horrid racist things or dislike it, so maybe the same people.
I'm white, old, and as English as they come. But this is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
My tears can’t stop running down 😢
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
In love with this song, lots of love from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 for Africa
Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Exquisite listening.
Love 💕❤ u sona u make us proud 🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲✌🤴
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
😭😭😍😘😘from west Africa liberia. Love African music
Great touchy sound 😍
Cette femme dégage quelque chose d’inexplicable quand elle chante ❤. Mercii beaucoup pour toutes ces belles mélodie 🎶🙏🏽✨
Beautiful beautiful song Sona...
Much love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
God Bless Mama Afrika WE still crying
As an African living abroad, I just need to close my eyes and connect my soul to the motherland. Afreeka
Very talented..Much love for Sona and her band...From Nairobi
This is so beautiful. I'm in tears right now
I AM FLOATING! This is so beautiful. Thank you so much.
I am yellOw, 55 and from Argentina, this fits top my Soul, to my State of mind, free Gambia
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
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.
Love Cora only a few people left who can play that instrument, love my Africa.
I stumbled on your music and instrument. So powerful. I support 100%. if u upload your tour visit and I am pretty sure one day I will watch you and show my kids the invaluableness of what ur are doing. I appreciate you thank you for this music.
FATOU Jammeh
I dedicate this wonderful sound to one person and one person only
D, kambi in brikama Gambia greeting from Sweden.
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.
Amira Richardson Is The Thrifty Gurl In The ATL po
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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.
Yeah this song will be on repeat for the rest of my life on this earth.
I am gratefull to listen to this kind of song thanks a billion times for keeping our tradition
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.
Very proud to endorse Sona Jobarteh as a true ambassador of African Spiritual ,Cultural Heritage and Emotional Expressions
well said she deserved the title
Thats a pure definition of African finest and identicality of Music .
All the way from Angola
In my next life I want to be a musician and do this, and have the look on my face they all have.
Wow! Such beautiful music and amazing musicians!