Name: Black Madonna
Duration: P00H02M22S
Description: Black Madonna reflects on the lack of representation of Black and Brown people within Christian imagery despite the origins of the religion being from the Levant.

Black Madonna

by Rupert Common

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Black Madonna reflects on the lack of representation of Black and Brown people within Christian imagery despite the origins of the religion being from the Levant.

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Black Madonna
Never grew up with a Black Madonna
Mother Mary, with your skin of porcelain quite the contrary
In Palestine Where Jesus lies
He had brown skin
He did not have blue eyes Eyes
Black Madonna
Never grew up with, that Madonna Brother Joseph,
He spoke, Aramaic
In Bethlehem, Jerusalem There were no European men Except for the Romans
So why’d they lie? And paint him white? And use his words To colonise?
Black Madonna
Never grew up with a Black Madonna
Mother Mary, with your skin of porcelain quite the contrary

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released November 25, 2022
Written by Rupert Common

with additional support from Justin Alexander Palmer.

Produced by FRASE

Recorded in Montréal / Tioh’tia:ke

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Rupert Common Montreal, Québec

Rupert Common creates music in a way that is completely his own- combining the gentle skills of acoustic folk music with the mentally ambidextrous art of Hip-Hop.

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