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"No Longer Slaves" is a song by Bethel Music featuring Jonathan David & Melissa Helser and it was released on August 21, 2015, as Bethel Music's lead single from their seventh live album, We Will Not Be Shaken (2015). [2] The song also appeared on the album Bethel Music en Español (2019).
Although no official record exists, "The Old Settler's Song" was thought to be the state song of Washington according to The People's Song Bulletin until it was decided the lyrics were not dignified enough. [2] The song achieved prominence decades later when radio-show singer Ivar Haglund used it as the theme song for his Seattle, Washington ...
The basic narrative remains intact. On the surface, the song is a black slave's lament over his white master's death in a horse-riding accident. The song, however, is also interpreted as having a subtext of celebration about that death and of the slave having contributed to it through deliberate negligence or even deniable action. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.
The set included the performance of "No Longer Slaves" from Bethel Music originally performed by Jonathan David & Melissa Helser and his own songs "Survivor" (new single and title track from the EP), "Old Church Choir", "To the Table", "Fear Is a Liar" and as finale his 2016 award winning debut single "Chain Breaker" in which the prisoners join ...
The song, "Ever Be", which featured the vocals of Kalley Heiligenthal, was No. 18 on the Worship Leader's Top 20 Songs of 2015 list. [9] In August 2016, the Gospel Music Association announced the nominees of the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards with "No Longer Slaves" being nominated for a Dove Award in the "Worship Song of the Year" category.
Touted as a "vibrant response" to On the Shores, their 2012 album, Beautiful Surrender was the duo's first release with Bethel Music since joining the collective in 2014. [3] The album also included a radio remix of their Dove Award-winning hit single, "No Longer Slaves," as a bonus track. [4]
Song of the Free" is a song of the Underground Railroad written circa 1860 about a man fleeing slavery in Tennessee by escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad. [1] It has eight verses [ 1 ] and is composed to the tune of " Oh!