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January 8, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Mercy N
Hallo Somi,
I was listening to your interview/story with Dick Gordon this afternoon. I am from Tanzania and I was so moved with your songs. Would you kindly tell me where I can buy your CDs.
November 19, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Peter Lukwiya
Hi Somi,
This is not a question in particular and i hope i am using the right page to send you this message.
I am from Uganda and had been working at the UN. I was among the crowd who gathered to celebrate the life of Makeba at Bleecker street last Sunday. A friend told me about some Ugandan lady, will be performing and i couldnt help coming over. When i was there, i saw that you were too busy and couldnt say hi, even thought i wanted very much to.
I was deeply inspired by some of your songs and proud to see a person like you filled with amazing talents. In nutshell, i send you my best wishes and hope to connect with you in not so long period.
God bless
Peter
December 30, 2008 at 8:54 pm
johnny
Thanks for good post
January 2, 2009 at 5:47 am
Peter
I am from Uganda/Rwanda may be like you. I heard your voice with Dick Gordon this evening pacific standard time because I live in Los angeles. Anyhow we need to know you more. There is sizable Rwandese/ugandan community here in Los angeles. Your sweet voice will be a good representation to our community.
Peter
January 2, 2009 at 7:37 am
Patricia Rabain
In listening to your interview with Mr. Gordon, I enjoyed listening to the story behind your story, Your sense of family and how it is a supportive foundation for who you are, how you are shaped, to be the person you have become, moved me deeply. I am neither Jewish, nor Arab, but am part of a melting pot of both. I am African American, a descent of U.S. slaves, with white, Irish, native American, as well as,
definitely African. Although many African American slave descendants cannot, will not, do not know how, may not want to, put a finger on where their dis-ease comes from, sense of rootlessness that springs from not knowing where you came from, I am buoyed by the Barack Obama elections. He keeps “hope alive.” The many giants before him, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many before him, all continue to remind us that the African American family, descendants of U.S. slaves, is no longer fragmented, that we need to continue learning the lessons from the past, we need to fight this “bubonic disease” of the slave mentality, and break the chains on the brain, for it is now pschological warfare that we must combat, that racism is within, the obvious surrounds us, if we are to continue to evolve as a people, once whole, but still fragmented in all its ills. To find peace in our surroundings, we must first find it within. Once we find peace, only then can we open the door wide open, and let positive growth takes its course. Although no family is perfect, there is so much more that is positive about where you as a person, come from, both spiritually and emotionally.
Thank you for sharing your interview with the world. Trisha
2 January 2009
P.S. I love the geometric sybols in each response box. What do they mean? One of my degrees is in mathematics.