Skip Marley’s ‘Faith’ Featured In Barack Obama-led Netflix Docuseries
The song Faith, from Skip Marley’s 2020 Grammy-nominated EP Higher Place, is featured in Our Great National Parks, a Netflix docuseries scheduled to commence on April 13.
The 5-part documentary series is narrated by former President Barack Obama, and tells the story of the importance of the world’s most famous national parks in countries such as Chile, Indonesia, and Kenya, which are regarded as a hotbed for scientific research and the well-being of mankind.
Cedella Marley, Skip’s mother and daughter of Reggae legend Bob Marley, made the announcement on Wednesday, a day after Netflix released the trailer for the docuseries.
“Skip Marley’s song “Faith” is featured in “Our Great National Parks” a 5 part series narrated by Barack Obama that invites viewers to celebrate the power of our planet’s greatest national parks and wild spaces,” Cedella noted on her social media pages.
Faith is an inspirational song about overcoming adversities by remaining hopeful in spite of life’s challenges and was among the seven songs on the EP which was released on August 28, 2020.
The other tracks were Make Me Feel, My World, No Love, That’s Not True and also the Gold-certified Slow Down with H.E.R, a track which almost immediately amassed tens of millions of global streams, making it the quickest-streaming song in the history of the Marley clan. At the time, Skip also became the first Jamaica-born lead artist inside the Top 15 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart since 2006.
In November, ahead of his upcoming full-length album, Skip released Vibe with Popcaan, which was produced by Rykeyz, who had also produced Slow Down.
Born in Kingston and raised in Miami, Florida, Skip, who is also the grand-nephew of Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths, released his debut single, Cry to Me, in April 2015 on the Tuff Gong label.
His first headline tour of the United States dubbed Change, will get underway on March 20 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. It will include stops in other cities such as New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago, and will close at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California, on April 27.
As for Our Great National Parks, the five-part docuseries will cover Monterey Bay in Northern California, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Tsavo National Park in Kenya, and Patagonia in Chile, while a nature protection campaign will also be launched alongside the series, according to reports.
“A fish that can walk. Surfing hippos want to catch the waves. Species found nowhere else on Earth,” Obama is heard saying in the trailer.
“Join me in a celebration of our planets’ greatest national parks and wilderness,” he added as he walked on a seemingly deserted beach.
According to Rolling Stone, this is the first time Obama is appearing on screen for a show produced by Higher Ground Productions, the production company he launched with his wife Michelle.
“The series was announced last year, but never mentioned the former President’s involvement. The docuseries is being executive produced by James Honeyborne, Tonia Davis, and Obama,” Rolling Stone reported.
In a release, Netflix noted that President Obama protected more public lands and waters than any US president, and that the docuseries was “as much a celebration of nature as it is a call to action”.
Describing the earth as a “shared birthright”, the release noted that “this birthright is constantly under attack, by manmade disasters and indulgences that have hastened a global climate crisis, and many species are on the brink of extinction”.
“The conservationist spirit of Our Great National Parks is clear: These wonders deserve to be preserved, and one of the best ways to prove that is to show audiences what these wonders look like when they thrive,” it added.