Rabat - Amid the panic in Cote d’Ivoire on March 13 during an attack on a beach in Grand-Bassam, a group of 11 Ivorian musicians collaborated to release a song entitled “Même Pas Pour,” or “Not Even Afraid”, to express their solidarity with the victims and express courage to overcome terrorists’ radicalism.
The video clip was shot in the preferred destination for Ivoirians and foreigners on Grand-Bassam beach, the same place where Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) killed 19 people.
Accompanied by upbeat dances, the Ivorian musicians sung in French to address the terrorists, saying that killing innocents is a sin. They also to show that they are not afraid of terrorism as long as all religions call for peace and tolerance.
The four-minute video clip portrays the musicians on Grand-Bassam beach, wearing t-shirts printed “Même Pas Pour”, along with the Ivorian flag.
Identified as a Collectif Bassam, the musicians brought Ivorians together to chant the chours defiantly in one voice, “In Ivory Coast, we are standing up, jihadists, we are not even afraid.”
"What are you doing on the beaches? Because of 70 virgins, you kill innocent people.”
"In the name of God, you there, you won't go to paradise.”
Chico Lacoste, the song's producer, said he wondered what he could do in response to the attack.
"What do we have to fight these bandits? We have a microphone," he said. "So we decided to
release a song to tell people not be scared of these barbarians. We have to keep on living."
Siro, one of the 11 artists, said that the aim of the song is meant to encourage people to stand up to terror by not changing their lifestyles.
"That barbarism wanted to show us death," he said. "We don’t want their barbarism to impose on us their way of life. We had to use the opposite; we had to use joy."
“The tolerant tune brought the Ivorians together to relieve their fear and not let the attack tear them apart,” Siro said as he sat next to another musician.
"Here is Mawa Traoré, who is a Muslim artist," he said. "I’m Christian. We wanted to show people that we are one. Like a keyboard. A musical keyboard has different notes, but when you play them together, you get a melody."
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