Eight years ago when Empress Miriam Simone visited Jamaica, the Caribbean country was going through another cycle of homicides. There was racial unrest in the United States, and terrorist strikes in Europe.
There has not been any significant change. Which makes “We Don’t Wanna Cry”, one of the songs she recorded in 2013, just as relevant.
It is produced by Robert “Bobby Digital” Dixon, one of the giants of contemporary dancehall music, who died in May last year. “We Don’t Wanna Cry” features Capleton.
“The idea to do a collaboration with Capleton came from One Blood Karl who does my promotion in Jamaica about 10 years now. I got introduced to One Blood by Bobby Digital who wanted me to work with him to do my marketing and promotion for the projects we were working on,” Empress Miriam Simone, who is from Suriname, explained.
On her second trip to Jamaica in 2019, Bobby Digital remixed the song which is done for the Holland-based singer’s Dredda Records and distributed by Zodjak Worldwide.
Her message on “We Don’t Wanna Cry” is timely, given the current racial and social unrest in the world.
“It is a call out to all the nations of Mother Earth to stop the violence. Too many brothers are killing each other and mothers are crying because of the loss of a father; mothers, children or families. It must stop, Jah lives!” she declared.
Empress Miriam Simone began recording 12 years ago in her homeland. In 2012, her EP “Follow my Dreams” was released.
Last February, she launched her debut album “Amsterdam Revival” in Kingston. Both projects featured songs produced by Bobby Digital.
Written By Howard Campbell—
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