5 years ago
For three days after Katrina, Irvin Lee couldn't stop watching the news coverage on Hurricane Katrina.
"I felt the pain in me that you can't describe; I felt the pain of a people crying and begging," says Lee.
He also couldn't stop writing, using his computerized basement music studio to translate his raw emotions into something everyone could feel. "I started playing with hook lines, then the hook line came uh then it hit me. Ain't nobody coming to get me. When I said that, when I said those words, they moved me," recalls Lee.
"Then I went on to say nobody feels my pain. Then I went on to say once again the color of my skin reminds me things ain't changed", says Lee.
He called it The Hurricane Song and like the unforgettable pictures that inspired it, the song is meant to be desperate, sad and profound. Lee, who insists he is more of a song writer and artist than a real musician, pieced the Hurricane song together, phrase by phrase.
The Lyrics were brought to life by singer Allen Watty. And the music was brought to America by what else, the internet, a hurricane song.com, where you can download it for free. Lee says he hopes everyone will listen but especially the people who inspired it.
Written by Derek McGinty
