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Love Life

Kurtis Lamkin

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Kurtis Lamkin is a poet from Philadelphia who plays the kora and, on this album, the jinjin. As with the kora, the jinjin lends itself to gathering words and music into lyrics that speak to the destiny of the people, as well as what goes on in our hearts.

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Kurtis Lamkin is a singular talent of our generation entering his years of mastery. He is an innovator, a storyteller, a musician, a poet and a moral historian who has studied and mastered the kora, a West African bridge harp with twenty-one strings...And in the tradition of Homer he travels the country singing the truth of our history, the hope of our humanity, and the imagination of our community…” - Mark Nepo, NYTimes Bestselling Author of "The Book Of Awakening" and "Surviving Storms"

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A kiss can change your mind

A kiss can change your mind:

Surrender your mouth

and a wind blows your mind to a mind

you never knew you had

wild yet elegant

so when you open your new eyes

your see what babies see

the glistening

the grass, your cousins, the store clerk

 you know them by the way they shimmer

and you believe without any effort at all

that you matter

You

remember the kiss

that devastating kiss

the one that changed your life.

 

 

 

 

 

Quilts, Catherine Lamkin, Kebe`, Kurtis, Kora

Kurtis Lamkin is a gifted poet and musician from Charleston, SC. He accompanies himself on the kora, a 21-string West African harp/lute built from a large gourd. The sound is rich and beautiful, like an earthy koto or a ukulele multiplied...” - Kathy Collins, actress, storyteller and radio personality at The Buzz 107.5 Maui

— The Maui News

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