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- artist:Clayton Williams
- featured artist:Clayton Williams
- region:Central America
- release year:2015
- style(s):World, Garifuna
- country:Belize
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc), CD-ROM
- record posted by:Garifuna Afro-Latino Entertainment LLC
- label:Garifuna Afro-Latino Entertainment LLC
- publisher:Garifuna Music Publishing Group
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Clayton Leon Williams released his first album “Garifuna Nuguya” (I am Garifuna) on May 30, 2015 in the beautiful village of Hopkins, Belize.
Garifuna music is instrumental and percussion- based. Garifuna songs tell stories ranging from the loneliness of being far from loved ones to the commemoration of social and historical events.
Clayton continues this tradition as demonstrated in the promotional singles “Garifuna Nuguya” (I am Garifuna), a Timely Track by The World's Youngest Parandero who tells about growing up speaking the Garifuna language and being Garifuna; Waguchili (Our Father), is a traditional Garifuna song usually sung in church as a song of offering during the mass, and Bibagari (Your Life), a mellow song which inspired him to return to the traditional ways of story telling, as it has always been done by those before him. As a witness to the struggles faced by young women going through the phases of adolescence, this song makes reference to disturbing situations in a young teenage girl's life as she struggles with the transition into womanhood. She refuses to take advice having multiple sex partners with no regards to her very own wellbeing, finds herself infected with HIV, and as a result slowly slips into a state of disillusion, weeping for the life she once had.
Paranda is both a rhythm and a genre of music. The basic rhythm can be heard in Garifuna traditional drumming styles that harkens back to St. Vincent and West Africa. Paranda itself became a genre in the 19th century, shortly after the Garifuna arrived in Honduras. There, the Garifuna encountered Latin music, incorporated the acoustic guitar, which is how Paranda acquired its touch of Latin and Spanish, rhythms. It is performed solely on acoustic instruments, namely the guitar, Garifuna drums, shakers, and turtle shells.