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Music fans, we’ve got a new, infectious bop for you: “The Spark,” a song written by a group of kids in Cork, Ireland. “I searched for my spark and I found it,” they sing enthusiastically over a vibrant electronic beat. They let their rhymes fly, too: “Started making sausages when I was young,” raps one girl, “my pen lights the pages.”
As one audience member enthused about X: “There’s no reason for them to come out with something so deadly.”
“The Spark” was produced by Cork youth rap act Rhyme Island. The children worked with a local producer called GMCBeats and Kabin Studio, a not-for-profit organization focusing on music and creativity in the suburb of Knocknaheeny, Cork.
They produced the song in advance of Cruinniú na nÓg, Ireland’s annual National Day for the Freedom of Young People’s Creativity. It offers over 1,000 free activities for children and young people across Ireland, sponsored by the Irish Government and supported by Ireland’s public broadcaster RTE. This year’s Cruinniú na nÓg event will take place on Saturday, June 15th.
Rhyme Island’s “The Spark” video was released by Creative Ireland, the Irish government initiative behind Cruinniú na nÓg. The video is as cheerful and wholesome as the song: children in colorful bucket hats and sunglasses skipping in the aisles of school buses and speeding along Cork sidewalks.
While “The Spark” doesn’t appear to be released on digital platforms yet, Rhyme Island has playlists of their other works on Soundcloud.
