Transcript
Sona Jobarteh Human beings, just as a race, as a species, they have universalities of course, we know that. But music demonstrates that in a very bold way. Because, at our core, we respond to certain things and that that is universal. Nobody needs to talk about happiness in Gambia or happiness in the US or happiness in China or Japan or whatever. Happiness is happiness.
You know, what might bring it about is different, but your experience of that emotion is still the same. And that’s where music comes in, is that no matter what nationality it’s from, where it’s from, who is experiencing, what set of circumstances in that particular person’s life made this song mean something to them, that’s all different. But at the end of the day, the emotion felt is shared.