'Like A Gift' Official - latest single from Samia Malik #live#music#song#singer#healing#livesong

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''Like A Gift' Official Video

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Recorded LIVE at The Norwich Arts Centre March 2022 to celebrate International Women's Day.

Album 'Songs To Heal & Empower' release date 9th June 2023
Single 'Like A Gift' release date 3rd November 2023

Samia Malik is a UK based bilingual Urdu/English singer, songwriter, artist, producer fusing, extending and subverting traditional South Asian and Western musical ands literary forms to explore contemporary issues around identity, race and gender.

She writes, performs and produces bilingual Urdu and English songs based on traditional Urdu Ghazal (a highly refined union of poetry with music) extending and subverting the form to explore contemporary issues around identity, race and gender.

Samia has collaborated and toured nationally and internationally with acclaimed world-class musicians, writers and artists including Baluji Shrivastav OBE, Dr Mallika Sarabhai, Giuliano Modarelli, Seemab Gul, Al MacSween, Sukhdeep Dhanjal, Sianed Jones and Cris Cheek.



Samia has released five albums

'The Colour of the Heart' (1998 rereleased 2023)

Jaago – Wake Up (2004)

Azaadi: Freedom (2017)

'Samia Malik Live at Norwich Arts Centre' (2019)

'Songs to Heal and Empower' (2023)

Samia is also a visual artist: her live shows are supported by projections of her original paintings and videos.


Samia says: 'I believe art can inform and transform. It is a powerful route to explore what we have in common and how we can heal individually and collectively.

At a time when barriers are being put up across the world, it is vital to see how art can also unite us, how we can use traditional cross-cultural forms to explore important contemporary issues, while also having fun!'


LYRICS:
Like A Gift

You come like a gift
Lifting me clear from the storm

Hold me hold me
Fold me into your arms

When the night is darkest
When I am most alone
You come...

You come to me
Like a melody
You come to me in song
You come...

You come to me
Like a memory
You show me that I belong
You come...

Hold me hold me
Fold me into your arms

You come like a gift
Lifting me clear from the storm

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: Samia Malik


SAMIA SAYS: (Extract from a blog post)
'This song came like a gift.

But not in the way creative things often come, when I am waiting and listening. Sometimes things come when I least expect them - when I am washing up, or driving, or otherwise busy…a little snippet will come down and hover just above me. Saying, take me, I am yours.

One day I was driving. And this came, the main line.

You come like a gift.

I had been playing with that phrase for months.

One of my habitual thoughts or preoccupations is how at times in deep meditation, or when I see the infinite sea, or look into a newborn baby's eyes or sing deeply, or once when I sat at the feet of my dying friend, I can feel the presence of something…

but what to call it? Who or what is it?

The divine? Something bigger than myself?'


CONTINUE READING:
READ THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE SONG HERE
https://samiamalik.com/blog/blog/7164479/like-a-gift-read-the-story-behind-the-song-and-hear-the-in-progress-acapella-version-live

'Truly moving. Compelling and highly original’ – Songlines

‘From the first note of the first number there was astonishment and rapt attention. There was a real sense of seeing something never tried before. Experts talk of "fusion"...but no- one's seen fusion like this’ Janet Trewin – Norwich Future Radio

'Iconic songs to heal and empower' Writer and activist Amrit Wilson
— Outline Magazine

'Songs to Heal and Empower' is the product of a period of R&D, starting during the pandemic, where Samia built her own home studio, began learning about recording, music production and mixing with financial backing from The Arts Council of England, regular support from London based sound technician and artist Camilo Tirado, and working closely with the Home Recording Academy (HRA) run by Dr Isobel Anderson, to produce this groundbreaking genre-defying new work.

Songs to Heal and Empower is touring nationally and is available across all digital platforms see streaming links here https://www.samiamalik.com/music

MORE LINKS:
https://www.samiamalik.com
https://www.facebook.com/samiamalikmusic
https://twitter.com/samiamalikmusic
https://linktr.ee/samiamalikmusic


MORE INFO
Further information including a blog about all the songs and listening at
https://samiamalik.com/blogs

CREDITS:
Samia Malik lyrics, compositions, arrangements, vocals, mixing, production
Camilo Tirado sound engineer, final mixing, mastering

With grateful thanks to The Arts Council England for support with the creation production and touring of this work.