"Nina Cried Power" is a song recorded by Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, featuring vocals from American rhythm and blues and gospel singer Mavis Staples.
The Telegraph stated that he upheld the legacies of the aforementioned artists with "purposeful swagger"[3] while The Irish Times wrote that "from the first track, Hozier fuses his righteous political anger ("It is the bringing of the line, it is the baring of the rhyme, it’s not the waking it’s the rising") with what you can only call a "tune", citing it as "a tree-flattening tour de force that explores broad themes of protest and liberation.
This is the poignant reminder that the work these artist-activists set in motion still needs redressing and enacting ... as an opener, "Nina Cries Power" is an inspirational triumph concertizing the single's place in the history of protest music.
[10][11][12][13][14][15] This song was intended as a thank you note to the spirit and legacy of protest; to the artists who imbued their work with the vigour of dissent, and a reflection on the importance of that tradition in the context of the rights, and lives, we enjoy today.
[16] It was directed by Patrick Ryan and Jon Hozier-Byrne, Hozier's brother, and features a slew of Irish activists, including Sinéad Burke, Eamonn McCann, and Bernadette McAliskey.