Mikel Laboa Hil Da
The great Basque folk singer and composer Mikel Laboa is dead. He was 74.
From comment 119: “The bird is free at last.” (“Txoria askea da azkenean.”)
This is a reference to Laboa’s most famous song, Txoria Txori.
If I had clipped its wings,
it would have been mine,
It would not have gone away.
But then it would no longer have been a bird,
and what I loved was a bird,
and what I loved was a bird.
