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  "origin": "United States · State undisclosed · African ancestral roots, precise lineage unknown within the character story",
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      "This opening chapter introduces the question at the center of his music: Who were we before someone else told us who we were?"
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      "He thinks he is visiting, but spiritually begins to feel that he is returning. Encounters with people, elders and living traditions deepen his understanding of belonging without pretending that one journey can restore every lost detail."
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      "The music treats awakening as the work of questioning what was learned, studying what was hidden or neglected, and choosing a more conscious relationship with identity. This is a fictional artistic framework, not an objective historical claim."
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