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Manze Dayila sings for Obama

The Media - October 24 2008, 2:42 PM

As a pregnant 19-year-old, Manze Dayila drifted in a small boat patched together with tar and burlap, accompanied by dozens of other Haitians who dreamed of a better life in the USA. Circling sharks, swelling waves, and endless ocean magnified the fear of what awaited her. Faced with these challenges, Dayila remembers, "I almost lost my sanity on that boat. To this day it's like a nightmare that won't go away." Dayila risked her life on a perilous journey in the hopes of creating a better life for her family.

Over the next two decades, Dayila transformed herself from helpless refugee to empowered artist.

This transformation resounds on Dayila's first album, Solé (As Is Entertainment; U.S. release: September 23, 2008), which captures the warmth and beauty of Haitian tradition, the raucous playfulness of Dayila's guiding spirits, and the long, hard voyage that brought her to discover and nurture her talent for singing.

CHANGE (The Barack Obama Song) by Manze Dayila (old version)