Ibibio Sound Machine Creates Unity Through Music

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Ibibio Sound Machine talk about how their music unifies and vocalist Eno Williams talks about her family's journey between Nigeria and London.

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Ibibio Sound Machine is an electronic group based in London. Singer Eno Williams sings in both her Nigerian family’s language of Ibibio as well as in English. The group’s music spreads messages of unity and bringing people together. That theme is present on their most recent album, Pull the Rope. Williams and Ibibio Sound Machine’s Max Grunhard talk about how their music unifies and Williams talks about her family's journey between Nigeria and London.

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