Artist Yewande Performs at Snellville's MLK Day Parade
She performed her international hit "War" alongside dancers from Snellville's Time2Inspire.
Music has been in Yewande Austin’s blood since she was a little girl. Raised by a mother who wanted to raise a well-rounded young woman, she was taught to “praise God, cook and play the piano.” “Little did she know that I would really answer a calling with music,” she said. From BET to MTV, Yewande's talent has led to performances with the likes of the Black Eyed Peas, India.Arie, Enrique Iglesias, Maroon 5 and A Simple Plan. Her music touches on things generally ignored in chart-topping music - poverty, social change, AIDS, gender inequality and war. Her newest release by Phoenix Records, "War", is an example of her use of music as a means of social change. "There is an internal chaos that resides in every one of us," she says in the …
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