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Somi, the daughter of immigrants from\nRwanda and Uganda, was born in Illinois, where the show was performed. She is a\nvery famous vocalist and composer. Her songs have very special theme – the\nstories of African immigrants in New York\ufffds Harlem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She told a story before performing. This was\na very effective way to get the audience engaged. Also, these introductions and\nbackgrounds also took place in between songs. When perfoming, it felt like she was\ndirectly communicating with me. She also naturally included the audience in her\nperformance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somi’s performance consisted of Somi and\nher band. They showed great chemistry. The band made her song more exciting.\nDifferent types of musical instruments were used, and the techniques of the\nperformers were different song by song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Somi introduced musicians from her team\nduring the performance. The thing I was impressed with was that Somi showed a\nvery deep respect to her band. In fact, this kind of performance is usually\nperformed mainly by vocalists. But Somi shared the spotlight with her band\nmembers resulting in most musicians getting a chance to play solo. They looked\nlike true friends, not just partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She sang various kinds of songs. The day of\nthe concert was Valentine\ufffds Day, and there were songs about oppressions,\nHarlem, and so on, including a love song centered around Valentine\ufffds Day. She\nsometimes screamed and sometimes sang in a sweet voice. She led the performance\nskillfully. I admired her professionalism. Due to my native language not being\nEnglish, sometimes I couldn’t fully understand her message. However, her music\nclearly contained a message easy to follow. Even if I couldn’t fully understand\nthe lyrics, her performance helped fill the gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re more curious about Somi and her performance, you can visit Somi’s site<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the evening of Valentine’s Day on February 14, Somi’s performance was held at Colwell Playhouse in Krannert center. By Aejin Shin Somi, the daughter of immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, was born in Illinois, where the show was performed. She is a very famous vocalist and composer. Her songs have very special theme –Continue reading “Somi : the best jazz performance I’ve ever watched”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235],"tags":[1146,1449,1365,992,2286],"class_list":["post-16593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-in-motion-spring-2020","tag-jazz","tag-colwell-playhouse","tag-faa110","tag-krannert-center-for-the-performing-arts","tag-somi","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16625,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions\/16625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}