Chen Nan Ren
- by The Creole Choir Of Cuba
- Real World Region: Caribbean
- May 2010
'Chen Nan Ren' is a freedom song which conveys the celebratory and glorious feeling of resistance, and harks back to the freedom songs of the 1960s circa Martin Luther King and the struggle for racial equality in the USA.
The Creole Choir of Cuba learnt this song from a recording by Haitian group Bobech Bitasyon - it denounces neo-colonialism and colonialism saying that slavery still exists for the poor of the earth but in different ways today, making reference to the Haitian dispossessed they sing that people continue to have a metaphorical chain around their ankles. Emilia Diaz Chavez opens the song with a dramatic speech to the workers - telling them they need to break the shackles of injustice, shackles of pain, shackles of imprisonment. Fidel Romero Miranda then breaks through the crowd, breaks through the chains and breaks into a powerful and moving song.
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