Kavisha Mazella
Kavisha Mazzella AM
“A power and presence that’s beyond words” Colum Sands
ARIA award winner and songbird Kavisha Mazzella original song’s lyrical ingredients include humour, poetry, social justice and the spiritual. Combine this prowess with the voice of an angel and you have the experience of a Kavisha concert. Singing in English and Italian, she will take you on an uplifting boundary riding journey of well-crafted stories and songs ringing with echoes of Celtic, Fado and Gypsy influences that will strike a resounding chord within. With 8 solo albums under her belt, she has sung and given vocal workshops at national music festivals and abroad.
In 2011 Kavisha was awarded an Australia Day Honour for her contribution to music and Community. http://www.kavisha.com
Listen to Songs By Kavisha Mazella
Love and Justice Anthem
Stirring Women’s anthem sung by 400 Women of Victoria Australia to mark the centenary of Suffrage – finally getting the Vote in Australia after 19 attempts in Parliament. Sung at the BMW edge in Melbourne, composed by Kavisha Mazzella (www.kavisha.com) and commissioned by the Victorian Women’s Trust
Song Lyrics
1.The moon is hidden in the clouds, the firelight is dying
In the dark slum street, men, women, children crying
No work today means no pay, and no pay means we’re starving
Mother, I’m with child again, I feel like I am dying
Chorus
Love and justice will be my flag, I’ll live my truth what ere will be
I swear that I cannot rest till there’s equality
Love and justice will be my flag, I’ll live my truth whatever comes
So many rivers to cross ‘til our journey’s done.
A pen, a pen your weapon be, my fine courageous women
Let’s sign our names a thousand times for freedom that’s hard winning
No more let fear and anger rule with heavy handed violence
The moon is shining in the sky as we break the silence.
Chorus
All who toil the weary world see beyond your measure
Women are real gold for all of us to treasure
No more let fear and anger rule with heavy handed violence
The moon is shining in the sky as we break the silence
Chorus
Oh, I had the strangest dream. It came one starry midnight
Men and women all joined hands in peace and loving friendship
All broken hearts were mended, all broken bodies healed;
River, mountain, rocks rejoiced; the bells of freedom pealed.
Editor’s note: Kavisha’s anthem, performed in 2008, fittingly book-ends the trajectory of The First Australian Women’s Songbook which has begun with the Union Singers’ 1964 recording of Ballad of Women, 44 years which is around one and a half generations. Many more songs have been written in that time than this book has been able to document. Many have been written since.
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