{"id":8124,"date":"2015-07-02T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2023-05-18T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T21:55:10","slug":"a-propos-de-liberian-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/?p=8124","title":{"rendered":"A propos de Liberian Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La chanteuse Letta Mbulu a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 lors d\u2019une interview sa participation \u00e0 la chanson \u201cLiberian Girl\u201d (1987) de Michael Jackson. Elle a notamment expliqu\u00e9 : \u201c<em>Alors que je donnais un concert au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, j\u2019ai re\u00e7u un appel de mon mari disant que Quincy faisait une chanson et voulait quelqu\u2019un qui puisse chanter en swahili. Je ne parle pas swahili, mais j\u2019\u00e9tais la personne \u00e0 qui il s\u2019adressait pour les voix de l\u2019Afrique et j\u2019avais un ami du Kenya qui \u00e9tait en mesure de m\u2019aider \u00e0 \u00e9crire ces paroles.<br>C\u2019\u00e9tait quelque chose comme \u201cNakupenda\u201d, qui signifie \u00ab Je t\u2019aime \u00bb. Et je chantais \u201cah-ah-ah-ah\u201d \u00e0 la fin parce que je savais ce que Michael aimait. Il \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s fascin\u00e9 par le fait que je vienne d\u2019Afrique, mais il \u00e9tait assez timide. Ce fut un honneur qu\u2019il m\u2019ait choisie.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La phrase finale en swahili que l\u2019on retrouve dans la chanson (\u201cNaku penda piya-naku taka piya-mpenziwe\u201d) pourrait se traduire en anglais par \u201cLove you too. I want you too, my love\u201d.<br>Quelques libert\u00e9s avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 prises avec la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 malgr\u00e9 tout car les langues swahilies ne sont pas parl\u00e9es au Lib\u00e9ria, pays dont est originaire la femme d\u00e9crite par Michael Jackson dans sa chanson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoi qu\u2019il en soit, \u201cLiberian Girl\u201d reste un tr\u00e8s bel hommage du Roi de la Pop \u00e0 l\u2019Afrique , de l\u2019Ouest (le Liberia), de l\u2019Est (le swahili) et du Sud (avec la participation de la chanteuse sud-africaine Letta Mbulu)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources : thequietus.com \/ MJLegend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>02 July 2015 by BIGBROTHER<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La chanteuse Letta Mbulu a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 lors d\u2019une interview sa participation \u00e0 la chanson \u201cLiberian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzine.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}