Children Are World Future The inspiration to the song Your Song Child and to the Your Song Child Project is born out of my own motherhood - the announcement of upcoming grandmotherhood and having been deeply touched by the story about the African tribe - a traditional passed on in griot tradition I chose to 'adopt' and rewrite for my project; named it Your Song Child STORY* More to the point It All Chose Me - along with my heartfelt care and concern about the children of this world. It is my awesome grandson Benneth pictured in these pages I HAVE A DREAM- I carry in my heart an unquencable fire and hope of a better world - intentions to inspiring and planting seeds to keeping in mind the beauty, uniqueness, love and light in the heart of every child born into this world no matter where - to caring for them accordingly It is my sincere wish that we shall remember to sing the song FOR the childen and ABOUT the children. It is my vision to provide a universal tool for genuine love, respect and understanding. To fascilitate foundations for sustainable PEACE in this world.- Together We Are Stronger - The Your Song Child CD A "UNITED NATIONS" roots production to which the following wonderful people sponsored their voices and creativity in audio and visual Jane Maluka - vocals, acoustic guitars, music lyrics arrangements, translations, storytelling, recordings, production Benneth Reimer - baby voice, universal story Berit Reimer - Jane's daugther - bass, backing vocals, storytelling German Kaleta (leon ligan-majek) - Yoruba translation, storytelling, co-production of crossover world fusion version of the song Your Song Child Benon Lipowski - recording Yoruba version, Polish storytelling translation recording Janis Haves -  storytelling English Geoff Haves - recording English Version  Ingrid Korning -  Swedish translation, storytelling  Serge-David Zoueme - French translation, storytelling Herbert Euloge Tauyé Houngnibo - Fongbe translation, storytelling Ashish Sankrityayan - Hindi translation, storytelling Ingrid van de Kamp - storytelling Dutch Leon van de Kamp - Dutch translation, recording Vlad Shusterman - Hebrew translation, storytelling, recording Production YOUR SONG CHILD Vlad Shusterman Mix Jalal Geilani - Arabic translation, storytelling Sara Smith - recording Arabic version DeeJay C4 - C4 Jane Maluka Mix background rhythms to YSCP-Story English version w. Jane Maluka José Carlos II - Portuguese and Spanish translations and storytelling Ramy Sayead Aziziah "Riding The Silence" - Silver Line Destiny - Instrumental Hiroko Ara - Japanese translation & storytelling Toru Ogiyanagi - Japanese recording Lemi Ghariokwu - CD Cover Art & Design - storytelling Pidgin English AM Kakoyi aka Mad Ice - performance translation production Your Song Child-Swahili version Mikko Hentunen - guitar Your Song Child-Swahili version Benjamin Nyman - bass engineering recording Your Song Child-Swahili version Etleva Hima-Buli - Albanian translation & storytelling Eldri Buli - Albanian translation & recording Nupachino - Thai translation, storytelling, recording Odafin & Tosho Ghariokwu - intro Pidgin Engl story w Ghariokwu LEMI Odafin Ghariokwu - model to CD Cover Art by Ghariokwu LEMI THANK YOU ALL! info info and pictures   Philosophy by means of music & words - music considered a key and door opener to people's attention - offering to children, parents and human communities the opportunity of heightened awareness as to individual identity, growth and intersocial concern. Universally as a means to overall respectful interaction as global world citizens in multiethnic societies - an inspiration to basic heart centered education from point of pregnancy & birth - music as message transmitting language without limitations as to age gender nationality - an invitation to the building of loving accepting and respectful communities