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"Baba Yetu" (Swahili: "Our Father") is the theme song for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. It was composed by Christopher Tin and performed by Ron Ragin and the Stanford Talisman . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For its re-release in Tin's debut album Calling All Dawns , it was performed by the Soweto Gospel Choir .
In response, Tin composed "Baba Yetu" for the main theme, a choral, Swahili version of the Lord's Prayer recorded by his former a cappella group, Stanford Talisman. [16] The song was widely praised, with over 20 reviewers of the game singling out the theme on game review websites such as IGN and GameSpy. [17]
Baba Yetu: Christopher Tin: Menu theme (lyrics based on a Swahili adaptation of the Lord's Prayer) Al Nadda: Rahbani brothers: Warlords menu theme (Lebanese, sung in Arabic) ? Michael Curran, Geoff Knorr: Beyond the Sword menu theme (sung in English; lyrics based on Walt Whitman's Passage to India and Alfred Noyes' A Prayer in Time of War)
Calling All Dawns is a classical crossover album by Christopher Tin released in 2009. The album won two Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the song "Baba Yetu", the theme for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. [1]
" Wimbo wa Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki" or "Jumuiya Yetu" (English: "East African Community anthem") is the official anthem of the East African Community. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Swahili language hymn. Etymology
For the Civilization IV theme Baba Yetu she sang in Swahili. [55] For the cover The Fields of Ard Skellig, a song from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt original soundtrack, she sang in Gaelic. [56] Her bard songs can be listened to in-game performed by several bard NPCs in The Elder Scrolls Online.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said transgender athletes playing in women’s sports is “an issue of fairness” in a break from most Democrats’ position on the topic.
"Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" is notable for being one of the first national anthems to be specifically commissioned. It was written by the Kenyan Anthem Commission in 1963 to serve as the state anthem after independence from the United Kingdom. The lyrics was intended to express the deepest convictions and highest aspirations of the people. [1]