Word: singings
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...than ever, an invisible ruler, his authority wielded from the shadows, where he hides from potential assassins. The Potemkin parties were intended to deliver a message to any Iraqi citizen feeling restive, to any foreign government contemplating his overthrow. The all-powerful puppet master can make his whole nation sing his praises as a blunt reminder: I am still here. It won't be easy...
When Nate was 6, I was invited to hear his class put on a concert. I had no idea what to expect, as Nate doesn't sing. What he does do is make loud, repetitive noises, occasionally while rocking back and forth. But I went anyway. And when the music teacher approached Nate and began to sing a song Nate loved to listen to, Nate looked down, stared at his hands and very quietly chimed in, "A ram sam sam, a ram sam, gooly, gooly, gooly..." The other moms rushed to hand me tissues as tears streamed down my face...
...song called When the Army Is Strong, the People Are Strong. It is still played at military functions. As a child, Zaw Win Htut listened to Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. His father, a doctor and a rock fan who bought records on trips abroad, pushed him to sing as well as play drums and guitar, and financed his first two albums, both failures. A third album, produced after his father died of an allergic reaction...
...1980s, left the country in 1988 after participating in a wave of antigovernment demonstrations. From Thailand, he released an album titled Battle for Peace, and activists sang his songs while facing down the military in 1996 street protests. He now lives in Norway, performing occasionally for Burmese exiles. He sings what he wants to sing. But almost no one listens. "In Burma, I produced one album a year," says Mun Awng. "During 14 years in exile, I have only recorded two albums." He vows to return and restart his career "as soon as there is freedom of expression...
...afterward, he wants to move out of the spotlight, into producing and painting. There may be battles he wants to fight; he acknowledges that all art is political, whether intended as such or not. Yet he insists, because he must, that his work is not political. Instead, he sings about love and dreams?until the day when he can sing about something else...