lullaby

A woman handing out party leaflets in downtown Buenos Aires says she rocked her babies to sleep not with lullabies, but the Peronist anthem “Viva Perón!”

Instead, the group work through a mix of lullabies, folk and gospel, switching from Spanish to Congolese to Swahili in rounds of four-part harmonies.

“Today I chase horizons wide. But your lullabies still echo inside.”

The album wraps with the acoustic lullaby “Big Blue Eyes,” which Keys wrote as a tribute to his son.

After birth, a baby is immediately immersed in a sea of words and rhythm, as their caregivers coo over them, chatter and sing lullabies.