Bird of Paradise en Disco Angel

Robinson Jouwe is a pianist, singer, composer and arranger. His songs are about hope, love, being queer and finding your place in this world. He released the single ‘Bird of Paradise’, which refers to Robinson’s namah tanah (< 1 >birth name) Tiache, meaning ‘bird of paradise’ in the Papuan language of his kampung, Kayu Pulau. < 2 >According to tradition, this name was intuitively given to him at birth by his grandfather, Nicolaas Jouwe. Another song, Disco Angel, is an ode to the queer disco stars of the 1970s and 1980s and is about freedom and selfexpression.