I fell in love with country music in the late 1970’s, long before I came to North America. I am still in love with the themes, the feelings and the stories in it. Unfortunately, and like everything else in our lives these days, politics got into it, and for some it has become a sloganeering venue. I still listen to country music though, and I simply switch to other stations when I get one of those sloganeering songs.
Several months ago I wrote a post for my personal blog about a song by a Muslim country music singer / songwriter. The music was beautiful, like many of his songs, but also the words were very moving. It got so popular because of the video accompanying it.
The video is based on a selection of the responses from American Muslims as a part of a project on what message would American Muslims like tell to their non-Muslims fellow American citizens. The whole production was beautiful, and if you did not know that the song writer were a Muslim, you would not guess it form the Lyrics, and you would probably like the song. I wanted too share the Muslim’ country music video with you, but even if you do not like country music, listen to (and watch) this one. See what some American Muslims think.
The singer/songwriter is Kareem Salaam, a talented American Muslim with a very impressive biography. Take a look and I hope you would enjoy this lovely song.