It is most effectively done on a hard wooden floor (and meaningless on a soft floor) so please make adjustments according to performance environment. It ended up being a grand long piece of 14 minutes with advanced difficulty.Please refer to the moods of the movie scenes and listen to the lyrics for all these songs except for 'To Die For.' The ending of 'Circle of Life' calls for a foot stomp at measure 85 after the drum effect in the original. I purposely changed the order of 'To Die For' and 'Hakuna Matata' as the commission requested for the song to be a good concert finale. Famous melodies of'Circle of Life', 'Hakuna Matata', 'To Die For', and 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' are included in the lineup. The Gift, then, is a compilation of talents both African and Afro-diasporic strong enough to buttress the throne of the woman we’ve come to know as Queen Bey.This saxophone arrangement of the 'Lion King' was commissioned by the saxophone quartet of The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band and premiered at Chicago's Midwest Clinic in December, 2013. Family is a constant theme, with Beyoncé singing to her children directly on “BIGGER” and then about her father on “FIND YOUR WAY BACK.' She’s procured contributions from some of her favorite US-born MCs, like Kendrick Lamar, co-star Childish Gambino, Tierra Whack, and, of course, the man co-captaining her household, JAY-Z.

Artists like Mr Eazi, Yemi Alade, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, and Tekno sing in multiple languages about embracing blessings (“JA ARA E”), staying the path (“DON’T JEALOUS ME”), and rising into your own majesty (“KEYS TO THE KINGDOM”).

Not unlike the film, The Gift chronicles a saga of personal growth, filtered through some of the brightest stars in Afrobeats and Afrofusion.

The album, in fact, is a separate project from the film’s official soundtrack, but that doesn’t stop Beyoncé and a cohort of hand-selected talents from telling that timeless story of the Pride Lands through song. In the lead-up to the release of The Lion King: The Gift, a collection of music inspired by the 2019 reboot of the classic Disney film, Beyoncé remarked that the project was meant to be “a love letter to Africa.” As executive producer, Bey made it a point to solicit contributions from artists spanning a number of the continent’s many culturally rich traditions and regions, including Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa.

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