Father's Blue Shirt – Rob Matare | Afrobeats Song for Remembering Dad (Official Lyric Video)

Afrobeats song for remembering dad: Father's Blue Shirt by Rob Matare. Father's Blue Shirt by Rob Matare: “Father's blue shirt, sleeves rolled high” Subscribe for a new song every day ▶    / @robmatare   Which line hits you hardest? Tell me in the comments. ▶ Play the whole album:    • Nobody Goes Home (Full Album) – Rob Matare   Father's Blue Shirt is a warm afrobeats family song with a gentle afropop sway, about a son who wears his late dad's shirt to a family gathering a year after the loss and finds him again in one clumsy dance move. Mama kept the shirt in a cedar box, sleeves rolled twice, one button missing. Tonight he puts it on. Cousins string bulbs above the yard, an auntie warms stew beside the wall, someone tunes an mbira near the doorway and children chase a tyre past the cars. Mama spots the missing button and fetches her old tin from under the bed. In the pocket he finds a bus ticket, a tiny screw and half a tailor's thread, and the cotton still holds a trace of Sunlight soap after twelve long months. He rolls the sleeves the way his dad did and steps outside before he can change his mind. When the music starts, he moves one shoulder and Mama covers her mouth. His nephew asks why everyone is crying before any sad song has played, so he explains that grandpa missed the beat on purpose, then blamed the drummer with a serious face. The relatives laugh, and an uncle points: that was exactly him. He tries the awkward double shoulder, left too late and right too quick, and Mama drops her needle, remembering he did that move the day they met. Soon every child wants a lesson, and grief makes room for something else. Later she sews on a new button, straightens the collar and tells him he does not have to become his father, but he does not have to lose him either. "The laughter is what fits" WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT This is a song about losing a father and discovering what he truly left behind. Inheritance, the narrator learns, is not only land, a surname or a photograph, but how a household stands, teases and dances badly together. It refuses to make memory wear only black: tears and laughter share one yard, and a man's lovable lack of rhythm lives on in the children's feet. WHO IT IS FOR For anyone who has lost a parent and found them again in a gesture, a joke or a familiar sound. Play it at an unveiling or a one-year remembrance as memorial gathering music that lets relatives smile, add it to a grief and celebration song playlist, or keep it for a quiet drive thinking of your dad. Fans of an afropop dance song with heart, and of pan-african music and diaspora music that carries family stories, will feel right at home. ABOUT THE ALBUM This track is from Nobody Goes Home, a set of african dance songs about community: a shoulder roll that travels from Lagos to Johannesburg, a dressmaker stitching a party dress from offcuts, a street with little money throwing the best party in town, and a grandmother at an Accra wedding saying lasting love is built from laughter. Which move or habit of someone you miss still lives on in your family? Tell us in a comment, will you? ▶ Stream the album everywhere: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rob... CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:18 Verse 1 1:33 Chorus 2:01 Verse 2 2:48 Chorus 3:18 Verse 3 5:07 Outro CREDITS Produced by Rob Matare Label: EpicSound360 #Afrobeats #RobMatare #FatherSBlueShirt #Amapiano