I wanted a song that would not talk about women through the prism of their social roles of wife, or mother.

I wanted a song that celebrates the strenght of women: those who endure, those who survive, those who grown, those who pull together, those who dare, those who always move forward…

I wanted a song that explained the “Yaya sisterhood”, this capacity that women have to let go of their differences and fight for a common cause, to unite their strenght and their voices, to say things out loud, and to take the place that is rightfully theirs.

I wanted a song that spoke about them, about who they are, about resilience…

I wrote it.  I compared them to river reeds; the reeds we don’t pay much attention to, the reeds that bend in the wind and under storms, the reeds that have roots that transform their vulnerability into strenght.

This song is here: http://janierenee.bandcamp.com/track/comme-les-roseaux

And if you download it, it’s even better, because the profits of the downloads will benefit the Centre Espoir Sophie in Ottawa (centreespoirsophie.org), so that we may share hope with all of the women who need it!