History of the song
Sam Cooke wrote "A Change Is Gonna Come" after a humiliating experience in 1963 at a whites-only motel in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he and his band were denied service and he was arrested for disturbing the peace. The song, inspired by his personal struggle and the wider Civil Rights Movement, is a powerful anthem of hope and struggle for equality. It was released posthumously as the B-side to his single "Shake" in December 1964, shortly after Cooke's death.
Excerpt from an article from the NEW YORKER magazine...
n a story that has come to symbolize the ways in which American popular music intersected with and helped sustain the civil-rights movement, Cooke was motivated to write “A Change Is Gonna Come” by another sixties anthem, Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” When he first heard that song, Peter Guralnick writes in 2005’s “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke,” he “was so carried away with the message, and the fact that a white boy had written it, that . . . he was almost ashamed not to have written something like that himself.”
The soul singer and former gospel star was further inspired when he heard Peter, Paul and Mary singing Dylan’s song on the radio. As Daniel Wolff explains in his 1995 biography of Cooke, “You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke,”_ _the folk trio piqued Cooke’s commercial ambitions. Their recording proved that “a tune could address civil rights and go to No. 2 on the pop charts.” For Cooke, the result of these racial and artistic challenges was “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
SOMOS LOS CAMPEONES
orgullo en sí mismo
seguir el camino
tener un plan
aprender de su pasado para poder seguir adelante
ser positivo - tener esperanza/fe
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