MUTOTO - a lullaby in Swahili

 Mutoto is a lullaby from Kongo, sang by Kavira Bwenge together with her two children in Swahili. The song is from our artproject Dream Peace in which we have collected five diffrent lullabies in five different languages and then matched them with an artist or art group who got the chance to reinterpret them. Music production and arrangement by: Kordian Rönnberg.
Recorded at our homestudio in Kungsbacka 2022.

Listen to the song by clicking here 

 

 

The song is sang from the perspective of a mother and goes something like that:

 

The child is crying

It wants to drink the milk from its mother

If you will cry child – then I will also cry!

The child is crying

It wants to drink the milk from its mother

If you will be silent child, then I will also be silent!

The child is crying

It wants to drink the milk from its mother

If you´ll be happy my child – then I will also be happy!

The child is crying

It wants to drink the milk from its mother

If you will sleep my child - then I will also be able to sleep!

The child is crying 

It wants to drink the milk from its mother.

Text and music: Traditionell från Kongo.

Language:  Swahili

Song: Kavira Bwenge

Arrangement and musicproduktion: Kordian Rönnberg

 

Here you can see Jenny Larssons dance interpretation of the song at Rosa Villan during Konstens Vecka: