Recording artist AbiYah Yisrael has once again embraced the cadence-lypso genre and has released the first track off of an upcoming cadence-lypso project titled “Sa Se Kadans”.
AbiYah Yisrael views the genre as a major part of Dominica’s history which holds major prospects for the future. However young persons on island need to own it and nurture it so that it continues to flourish. Culture as expressed by AbiYah is a collected manifestation of our livelihoods. When we each contribute it comes together to make the whole. In keeping with this line of thought, she has chosen to share this project in hopes of adding to the cultural collective that continues to define us as a people.
Just as culture is our way of life it is also a means of communication. In this song, AbiYah Yisrael speaks to the issues of violence in society but more importantly “Child Abuse” that for too long has been suffocated. In the song she asks “Ca ka fete nan peyi nou”, meaning “what’s going on in our country”?
AbiYah says, “It is appalling the child abuse situation in Dominica. Statistics reveal about 200 reported cases per annum while our minds are left to guess how many of our children are insecure. Global data shows that 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men are sexually abused before the age of 20. It seems like with the justice system punishment is delayed, too few or none at all. Child abuse goes on in secret, families keep it a secret and then it goes on for generations. One abused child is too many. We need to and have to do better because the potential of the future generation is at stake. Broken children build a broken nation.”
Ca Ka Fete is now available on YouTube:
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AbiYa has produced some wonderful and inspiring music over a span of several years, always with a potent message delivered with purpose and rhythm. This latest song is no exception and has a lovely creole feel to it. Question: Why is she not being featured in this tear’s World Creole Music Festival?
Your music is always so meaningful! Thank you for taking the time and using your God-given talent so meaningfully. I interact with children everyday and my heart’s cry before Almighty God is that we’d wake up and fight for our children in Dominica before we lose ourselves.Your song will be my anthem in my own war against this epidemic of molestation, rape and seduction of our children. Keep singing … let’s keep fighting! It is a cause worth fighting for.