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IFI UDE - Love Is Stronger **Eurovision Poland** (Lyric video)

Article: Poland’s multicultural music landscape: from Afro-Polish folk to Polish jazz from Peru

Ifi Ude: Afro-Polish folk

Ifi Ude is an independent Polish music artist with Nigerian origins, describing her music as Afro-electro folk. Ifi sings predominantly in Polish and her music combines Slavic and Nigerian folk traditions.

“In interviews, I am always asked about my origins first. During my performance the public first notice my skin colour, and only then see me as a professional music performer,” she says regarding the difficulty of being a Polish musician of colour in Poland.

In her view, there is still not enough diversity in the Polish music scene, with “people of colour in Poland creating and performing contemporary afrobeat, neosoul, gospel latino or hip hop.”

Her recent album Ludevo (a wordplay on the Polish term ludowo, meaning “in the folk style”) brings in Slavic influences and rhythms. She stresses, however, that incorporating Nigerian songs into her music is a way for her to preserve her personal connection with that country, echoing the multiplicity of her identity.

The 35-year-old started her music career by singing in alternative bands and venues in Warsaw, and in 2014, her first album, Ifi Ude, was nominated at the Fryderyk – Poland’s main annual music awards –in the debut of the year category.

Although she now lives in Warsaw, her songs blend various stories of daily hardships in Polish villages, touching on a number of contemporary social issues like alcoholism and strained family relations.

At the end of last year Ifi was nominated for the prestigious Passport award handed out by the Polityka weekly for outstanding cultural creators in Poland.

Read more about Poland’s multicultural music landscape here

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Hej mama mówiła mi by radzić sobie wiesz

Uczucia chować tam gdzie nie sięgnie licho ich

Sama uczyła mnie bo jej nie uczył nikt

By silnym w życiu być i w rękach trzymać los

Tato tato gdzieś ty był

Tato tato z kim ty pił

Bo ojcowie są od tego by dziewczynki się nie bały

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Ifi Ude - Kwiat

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Ifi Ude - Dusza (Soul)

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Ifi Ude ft. Bart Pałyga, Marcin Lamch - Tato, tato (Dad, dad)

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Ifi Ude & Ori Avni - Mirabella ( DeDeDe )