Does anybody knows the story of KUMBAYA song?

Question

who sings ??

Answer 1

"Kumbaya" (also spelled Kum Ba Yah) is a song composed by Reverend Marvin V. Frey (1918 – 1992) in the 1930s in New York City. Originally titled "Come By Here", it first appeared in "Revival Choruses of Marvin V. Frey", a lyric sheet printed in Portland, Oregon in 1939. In 1946 the song returned from Africa with a missionary family, who toured America singing the song with its now world famous angolan text "Kum Ba Yah".

Sometimes the song is believed to be an original spiritual, 19th century African American folk song, originating among the Gullah, a group descended from enslaved Africans living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, but there is no evidence of the song before Frey's publication.

The song enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s, largely due to Joan Baez' 1962 recording of the song, and became associated with the civil rights struggles of that decade.

Answer 2

"Kumbaya, my Lord" started out in the 1920s as a Gullah spiritual sung on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort. Gullah is the creole featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of "Song of the South." "Come by here, my Lord" in Gullah is Kumbaya. American missionaries probably took the song to Angola after its publication in the 1930s, where its origins were forgotten. In the late 1950s the song was rediscovered in Angola and returned to North American where it swept the campfire circuit as a beautiful and mysterious religious lyric.

Answer 3

"Kumbaya, my Lord" started out in the 1920s as a Gullah spiritual sung on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort. Gullah is the creole featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of "Song of the South." "Come by here, my Lord" in Gullah is "Come by (h)yuh, my lawd". American missionaries probably took the song to Angola after its publication in the 1930s, where its origins were forgotten. In the late 1950s the song was rediscovered in Angola and returned to North American where it swept the campfire circuit as a beautiful and mysterious religious lyric. That is why the song is associated with Angola in many current printed versions.

Answer 4

In the western coasts of Africa, in the 15th century B.C., there was a man of the Sujukoji tribe name Animotoabi Atokobo. Under a starry night sky, one evening, his little son, Aniyokoabi, fell deathly ill, so Animotoabi began to sing a silent prayer ......

...Kum-ba-ya, [my lord (in his language of course)] Kum-ba-ya, ..And the rest is history.

Answer 5

my girl scout troop does