Benazir Bhutto Remembered in Daughter's Hip-Hop Tribute
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (C) waves to supporters at a campaign rally minutes before she was assassinated in a bomb attack December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Footage from the rally was used in a montage created for the song "I Would Take the Pain Away," recorded by the slain leader's 18-year-old daughter, Bhaktawar Bhutto Zardari. (Getty Images)The assassination of Pakistani political activist Benazir Bhutto left a nation reeling, but it also left her children grieving.
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari is one of Benazir's three surviving children. And one year after her death, Bakhtawar has paid tribute to her mother in a hip-hop song and video that has become a hit on YouTube. "I Would Take the Pain Away" pays tribute to two aspects of the slain leader's personality: the leader and the mother. Bakhtawar describes her feelings for her mother and the circumstances of her death when she speaks:
"You have beauty and intelligence, everything you did relevant/ Shot in the back of your ear, so young in 54th year/ Murdered with three kids left behind/ A hopeless nation without you/ You are in all their hearts."
Bakhtawar met Sean "Diddy" Combs shortly before her mother's death, possibly incorporating the influence she felt from the musician's work into her song, "I Would Take the Pain Away." The song debuted on state-run PTV and has become something of a YouTube sensation.
The video is filled with a montage of photos and clips of Benazir and her various high-profile accomplishments. It even includes footage from the Rawalpindi political rally where she was assassinated.
Farahnaz Ispahani, of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, called the song "an emotional tribute and a beautiful song from a daughter to a mother's memory."
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