Analysis Of Emmanuel Jal: The Music Of A War Child

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The video I watched was, "Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child". The artist is Emmanuel Jal and he was a child soldier in Sudan and has since been rescued and became an international hip-hop star and activist for children in war zones. Jal uses lyrical poetry and music to tell his life stories instead of vocally for it's to hard for him any other way. He uses his song "Forced to Sin" as a poem for the audience and it's about when he became a child soldier and during a journey was tempted to eat his friend because he had no food . Music was also a form of therapy for him and he believes that, "music is the only thing that has the power to enter your cell system, your mind, your heart, influence your soul and your spirit, and can even influence