A must have! Contemporary American christian music with a kick of African spice!
I Gotta Testify is a unique blend of contemporary Christian music laced with African flavors as Anita introduces her audience to a new style of gospel music. This is a record that says much about personal times of struggle and the hope and promise found in the love of Christ. Her overall message that resonates in most of her songs is God’s ability to bring his children through any situation. The album is moving, ecclectic and beautiful. It is music stripped back to its essential elements: voice, melody, and meticulously arranged instrumentation. Her music is infused with live keyboards, the Djembe, acoustic guitar etc.
This album will make you cry and pray (I Gotta Testify,) Praise (Praise you), commit to a worthy cause (There’s a need), Give your life to Christ (Look at me now, I Gotta Testify), proud to be an African woman (African Beauty). Songs such as “I may not look saved” will be hailed by many who have not felt accepted within some Christian circles. She is real, sincere and without pretense as she deals with issues faced by the modern Christian.
Anita is open in this album and shares very personal experiences of hurt and vulnerability as in ‘know who you are” and “I Gotta testify”. She takes the listener on a journey which begins with her struggles and ends with positive re-affirmations. After all is said and done, she is the recipient of blessings and miracles as the faithfulness of God is once more displayed. She shows us her deep understanding of the complexities of heartache and hope.
She writes powerful and sometimes bold lyrics taking on issues rarely explored in Christian music and revealing her songwriting prowess. Anita skillfully exposes the depth of her pain, yet leaving you with the hope of a bright future. It was shortly after relocating to California and going through a stillbirth and later a number of life threatening pregnancy complications that she wrote some of her most personal songs. Her music is true to the Biblical quote “weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning”.
She grew up listening to songs by Nana Mouskouri, Julio Iglesias, Bebe & Cece Winans, The Winans. She especially enjoys music by India.arie, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin and Fred Hammond, artists uniquely attuned to the complex sensibilities of heartache and hope. She always loved singing from child hood and sang as a child in the Church choir but never saw herself singing professionally until she joined Remission in 1992.
Anita sees this album as speaking to a global audience. She hopes to attract a diverse, multi-cultural audience attracted to her openness to the cultures of the world. All songs are written by Anita; she serves you an international spread of dance songs, radio favorites and easy listening, prayerful and meditative songs. Her diverse cultural background is reflective in her musical style. Anita sees herself as a child of the world, a cross between African and western cultures, a person who can evolve with the times, yet staying true to her Christian values. You feel the warmth in her personality, the fun loving African girl who has reverence for Christ, the wife and mother who cares and prays for her children, the philanthropist who will do all she can to support the destitute, especially those in “the home we left behind”. This is evidenced in her work with FOADAC (The Foundation for Orphaned Abandoned, Disabled African Children) She is determined to be a positive reflection of Africa and of the Church and intends to break some of the misperceptions held by many about Africans and Christians.
This album will make you cry and pray (I Gotta Testify,) Praise (Praise you), commit to a worthy cause (There’s a need), Give your life to Christ (Look at me now, I Gotta Testify), proud to be an African woman (African Beauty). Songs such as “I may not look saved” will be hailed by many who have not felt accepted within some Christian circles. She is real, sincere and without pretense as she deals with issues faced by the modern Christian.
Anita is open in this album and shares very personal experiences of hurt and vulnerability as in ‘know who you are” and “I Gotta testify”. She takes the listener on a journey which begins with her struggles and ends with positive re-affirmations. After all is said and done, she is the recipient of blessings and miracles as the faithfulness of God is once more displayed. She shows us her deep understanding of the complexities of heartache and hope.
She writes powerful and sometimes bold lyrics taking on issues rarely explored in Christian music and revealing her songwriting prowess. Anita skillfully exposes the depth of her pain, yet leaving you with the hope of a bright future. It was shortly after relocating to California and going through a stillbirth and later a number of life threatening pregnancy complications that she wrote some of her most personal songs. Her music is true to the Biblical quote “weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning”.
She grew up listening to songs by Nana Mouskouri, Julio Iglesias, Bebe & Cece Winans, The Winans. She especially enjoys music by India.arie, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin and Fred Hammond, artists uniquely attuned to the complex sensibilities of heartache and hope. She always loved singing from child hood and sang as a child in the Church choir but never saw herself singing professionally until she joined Remission in 1992.
Anita sees this album as speaking to a global audience. She hopes to attract a diverse, multi-cultural audience attracted to her openness to the cultures of the world. All songs are written by Anita; she serves you an international spread of dance songs, radio favorites and easy listening, prayerful and meditative songs. Her diverse cultural background is reflective in her musical style. Anita sees herself as a child of the world, a cross between African and western cultures, a person who can evolve with the times, yet staying true to her Christian values. You feel the warmth in her personality, the fun loving African girl who has reverence for Christ, the wife and mother who cares and prays for her children, the philanthropist who will do all she can to support the destitute, especially those in “the home we left behind”. This is evidenced in her work with FOADAC (The Foundation for Orphaned Abandoned, Disabled African Children) She is determined to be a positive reflection of Africa and of the Church and intends to break some of the misperceptions held by many about Africans and Christians.
