E M E L - Naci en Palestina

Shot and edited by Shaan Couture in Central Park New York, on Dec/21/ 2017 The last recording of my “Naci en Palestina” was done in 2007. It’s a song derived from the Spanish “Naci en Alamo,” a lament of loss of home, of basic human rights, that I adapted to pay homage to the brave Palestinians, who for decades have endured every kind of deprivation while the world powers only look on from a one-sided stance. The latest efforts to steal home and heritage from the Palestinians moved me to go in the streets to sing a new rendition of it in the heart of New York City, where we hoped to share it with as many people as possible and try to create more space to welcome empathy, justice and the most human in us. I hope to one day be able to play it in a free Palestine. Nadi en Palestina I have no place I have no landscape I have no homeland With my finger I make fire and with my heart I sing for you my heart strings weep I was born in Palestine I was born in Palestine I have no place I have no landscape I have no homeland I have no place I have no now I have no country With my finger I make fire and with my heart I sing for you my heart strings weep I was born in Palestine I was born in Palestine I have no place I have no now I have no homeland