#TBT Back to 2007, with our beloved Jacqui Johnson and Gillian Seecharan-Scott singing The Gods Love Nubia.... The original, Tony-winning Aida was Trinidads Heather Headley, who spoke of thinking of her homeland when singing this song. We certainly think of Trinidad when we sing it: The gods love Nubia, the beautiful, the golden The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed The pain of Nubia is only for the moment The desolate the suffering, the plundered, the opressed The gods love Nubia — we have to keep believing Though scattered and divided we are still its heart The fall of Nubia, ephemeral and fleeting The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart...
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:00:00 +0000