Arima Ederra - Steel Wing
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Arima Ederra - "Steel Wing" from the 2022 album An Orange Colored Day on Arima\'s Lab.
\\nToday\'s Song of the Day came to singer/songwriter\\xa0Arima Ederra in a moment of anger. As the\\xa0firstborn daughter of Ethiopian refugees,\\xa0the Los Angeles-based artist was rattled by the refugee crisis that forcibly displaced a record 68.5 million people. In a press statement, she reflected:
\\n\\u201cWhen the former president put a ban on refugees in 2017, I remember sitting in my room very angry and couldn\\u2019t help but think about my family in East Africa. When the news came, a melody followed, kind of in the form of a chant. I recorded a little voice note of it, tucked it away and didn\\u2019t really think much of it til later in the year. When we started making the music, it felt like a soundtrack to my rebellious teen years and I felt called to explore the parallels of my youth to my father\\u2019s journey as a refugee. The hook is kind of like a conversation between the two of us. \'Steel Wing\' pays homage to not only my family, but all refugees, women and young girls to continue to take up space, rebel and explore their curiosity and freedom in everything they do.\\u201d
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