B2B - S3E8 - Thonia & Interview with Elio Alcindor

In this episode of Back2Back Radio Canada, host Dale Boreland continues to showcase the best of Canadian Christian music and the stories behind the artists who create it.

Enjoy music from Canadian Christian artist Thonia, whose uplifting songs point listeners toward faith, hope, and purpose.

Then, Dale sits down with Haitian-Canadian singer-songwriter, Elio Alcindor, for an engaging feature interview. Elio shares his musical journey as a pastor's kid in Haiti, how being involved in children's choir and worship team developed his passion for music, and how faith has shaped his songwriting, ministry, and calling as an artist. Hear the stories behind the music, the challenges and triumphs along the way, and the message he hopes listeners will take from his songs.

Whether you're discovering new music or seeking encouragement through authentic artist stories, this episode offers both inspiration and insight.

Listen now and be encouraged by the music, the stories, and the faith journeys that connect us all.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Welcome to Back to Back, your gateway to Canadian Christian music. On each broadcast, we listen to great music and interview the people shaping the future of Canadian Christian music today. Please welcome our host, Dale Borland.

SPEAKER_03 0:31

Welcome once again to Back to Back Radio. I am your host, Dale Borland. We got some great music on the way, plus an interview with Ilio Alcendor. And he's got some great music coming our way, so you want to hear that interview later on in the program. We've got a back-to-back starting off the show from Thanya with the song Inside Out. Wait for her back-to-back coming up after that. And please keep in mind that back to back radio is brought to you in part by GMI Hub. To find out more, go to GMIHub.ca.

SPEAKER_05 1:00

My shot, you never let go of me. My faith now finds rest in your shoes. My other you wrote about me on this path. I become as I take a step. And I don't know this row as much as you do, but your voice steps footprints as a clue. And now I live this life of mine for the inside I had recognizing the voice that here within a shell, which seems more voice, telling me sound after I am led by your spirit from the inside inside, for me inside the inside, the inside, from the inside my never go demon. Instead, you make my face shine bright. Tell us you never run out of time. You wait for me as your big cook And I don't know the facts that I face something's wrong. But it truth to me as such to Nathan Fully inside Where tonight and the word Which is the small boy Star Wars I got up for the So I left heaven inside of me kissing You know I let your spirits have expressions through my lips Cause I follow you and be followed by the blind and walk by sight for I don't know the eyes and those of his journey makes a mastery and if you all with me then a mouth around me and Fucking inside Where can I tell you just to I don't start on the style it's style from the Sina Insina Hey that is Thania and you can find her music on any of your music platform providers.

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Thanya is a Nigerian-born Canadian artist known for her unique fusion of folk pop and contemporary Christian music. As a singer, songwriter, Thani has always been a part of the church choir. She's writing songs from a very young age, and through her passion of songwriting and her earnest desire to share her music with others, Tanya started recording her own music, an original song, and very quickly became a voice in the Christian music scene.

SPEAKER_05 7:25

Don't you mapp it down? And you may have tried everything you could to the pain. Just having no o's. How about that? And all of the tears seem like an on-ending stream. Shattered and broken. I know we're hurt, but you don't have to be down. It's time to rise. Get up and dance. Get up and dance. Be bump, get up and dance. Be the dance. Don't we must in like the craziest thing to do right now? But I should praise you, find the joy on the little dance, your friend. Get up and dance, give up, get up and dance, get up, get up and dance, get up, get up to the dance. I was at end, I was in and ends, was dance when it makes no sense. I'm restrained, I am now. No longer do I have to think about the prison walls, they are cushioned down Like the walls of Jamie, all the shackles and my feet are broken off by the power in its day. I shut the enemy up and no longer will I be accused Cause it's no condemnation in Christ. Get up and dance, get up to dance Get up telling me Do we mess in like the craziest thing to do allow When I'm free to find the joy of the skill friend Get up to dance Get up to the dance Get up to the dance Get up to the dance I was in an end I was in an end with some ends for the line that is joy comes in the morning line that is line that's coming so horizon I would sell I would sell I would sell I got a fitness I got a fan test I got a fan test I got a fan dance I gotta fit this kind of makes you wanna get up and dance, don't it?

SPEAKER_03 10:39

Great music from Thania To find out more go to Thania.ca You are listening to back to back radio Singers and songwriters.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

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SPEAKER_03 11:08

Hi Dale Fantastic. Where your origin story is. What started you going in the direction of doing music for Christ?

SPEAKER_02 11:17

I was one in 80 and then um my parents were you know I always need you when you're gonna lose something like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

Also you've um you've been um um from one side of the country to the other and then beyond experiences that make you realize this is something that is not for everyone.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Um you know you can get this cool, you can't for me to do that. I can get it. I don't like it. We need you now. You need to go I lost the microphone. You feel like you need you feel like you cannot do it you looking for you looking for you looking for white people you will be there with us, so it's like telling people let us talk together, let's sing together. Sometimes you cannot do it, but if you sing, you think that I need you, I need you now, I need you to help me, I need you in that situation with my kids, I need that situation with your husband or your wife, I need you in that situation, financial situation, because it's hard now nowadays. I need you with that sickness, you know. So we need God all the time instead of going to the uh to alcohol, to drugs, to anything that will not give us any solution than destroying us more. So I think it's better to kind of like look. This song is just for that, it's created to help people to connect with God and to ask God, I need you.

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So many questions, so much pain to bear. Hearts are heavy, hope is thin. Heaven come now. We need your power, we need you here right now. Come on in these days, come show us your face. You said when we walk to the fire, you be one there, yes, why dear Lord? We need you back now. When the fog comes so high, you still care, yes, you do care. We need you back now We need you here right now Come be these places Just come show us your face You promise us you feel me So we can't talk every feel We need your power You see Yeah You be my day You see I believe you are Our strength when we are weak Our hope when we can't speak Our peace in the restore You are all shelter Our rescuing the fight We stay all shaken by your son Lord we need you now Lord you are Our faint Our home can be our peace You are Yes you are How are we still staying on shake and big

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Okay, Ilya, let's talk about the one song that I'm excited about. Praise the Lord. Tell me a bit about that one and where it came from.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yeah, praise the Lord. It's like when you see everything you've been through, when you see everything that's going on and you see everything.

SPEAKER_06 23:38

Praise God. He is the King of Kings. Praise the Lord to the God that's in the heavens.

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Praise the Lord. Come together and sing. Praise the Lord. He went forever. Come together and sing.

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Praise the Lord. He is the King of Kings. To the God that's in the heaven. Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_07 24:24

Come together and sing. Come on and praise the Lord. He went forever.

SPEAKER_06 24:46

All eternity. Yes, she is. We will lift his name higher. He is the king. Praise the Lord. To the God that's in the heavens. It is the Lord. Come together. Praise the Lord. He went forever. We will be with the higher. We will lift your name higher. Oh, yes. Oh, the Lord is so great. The great king above all. Oh, yeah. The Lord is mighty in great meetings. He is worthy. He deserves all the glory. We will lift him for God. All eternity. We will lift it in my head. He deserves all the blow. We will lift it there. We lift him forever. He is worthy and life. We will live in higher. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

Thank you, Elio. That's been such a great time to catch up with you. It's been a while since I've seen you.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Thank you so much, Jay. You know, as I say, it's always a pleasure to be here with you guys. And it's a great opportunity. I enjoyed. And I bless you, bless everybody.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

Elio Alexandra, what a great conversation I had with him. Hey, thanks for joining me on back to back. I'm out of here. Don't forget, I'm on Facebook at Back to Back Radio Canada. Drop me a message. Love to hear from you.