“El Valle del Amor (The Valley of Love)” by Daniel, Enrique & Alicia

Baha’i Blog Studio Sessions is an initiative where we invite Baha’is and their friends from around the world to come into a studio and share the Baha’i Writings put to music.

In this Baha’i Blog Studio Session, we’re in Marbella, Spain with Daniel Mantas, Enrique Sabariego and Alicia Perdu who sing “El Valle del Amor (The Valley of Love)” in Spanish based on a passage from the Writings of Baha’u’llah. 

This song was filmed and recorded in Marbella, Spain in July 2023.

This song is based on the following excerpts in Spanish:

A nada teme un amante, ni mal alguno puede aquejarle: Tú lo contemplas frío en el fuego y seco en el mar. […] El amor no admite existencia, ni desea vida: vida ve en la muerte y busca la gloria en la verguenza. Para merecer la locura del amor, el hombre ha de tener corfdura abundante […] sé como la misma nada […] El amor hace arder un mundo a cada instante, y asola cada país en el que planta su bandera […] A múltiples víctimas atenazaron sus garras y […] sus flechas […]  su veneno es más dulce que la miel […] su destrucción es preferible a millares de vidas.

And in English:

A lover feareth nothing and can suffer no harm: Thou seest him chill in the fire and dry in the sea […] Love accepteth no existence and wisheth no life: In death it seeth life, and in shame it seeketh glory. To merit the madness of love, one must abound in sanity […] renounce thy self […] Love setteth a world aflame at every turn and layeth waste every land wherein it raiseth its banner […] Love hath bound a myriad victims in its fetters and […] with its arrow […]  yet sweeter than honey is its venom […] and fairer […] than a hundred thousand lives.

CHORDS:

Capo at fifth fret

C7b9, E, Am (x2)

Dm, G, Am, F, Dm, Am

x2

F, Am, Dm, E (x2)

You can also listen to the audio version of this song on Baha’i Blog’s Soundcloud page here: “El Valle del Amor (The Valley of Love)” by Daniel, Enrique & Alicia

Watch the entire Studio Sessions video series on Baha’i Blog’s YouTube Channel here: Baha’i Blog Studio Sessions playlist

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Jordan Raj is a comedian, content producer and third culture kid. Born in Australia and raised in the Czech Republic by parents with ambiguous eastern origins, he is grateful for his unique perspective as his brain grapples to embrace the world. With brief journeys into the spheres of singing, public speaking, high school teaching and magic, he loves all types of performance and loves creating humorous video content to share online. Jordan is known for the “What’s That Word?” Series on Baha’i Blog and a number of explainer videos on Baha’i Holy days which he co-created with his cousin Raj. Currently, Jordan is living in Germany with his wife, where he spends his time doing stand up comedy and producing the Baha’i Blog Studio Sessions series.