How to Create a Song with Nana Coree | Lyrical Literacy Tutorial

Turning a musical idea into a full song usually means wrestling with genre choices, instrumentation, vocal style, and lyrics all at once, before you've written a single line. The Lyrical Literacy tool cuts that down to a handful of typed commands built around "ghost artists," fully realized style profiles that shape every part of what gets generated. This walkthrough uses Nana Coree, a ghost artist built on a warm contralto voice, reggae jazz with dub textures, and stories rooted in Caribbean folklore, to go from a blank prompt to a production-ready song.

Starting with a single command

The fastest way in is the random command: typing "random nana" and hitting enter generates a complete original song in Nana Coree's style, with style tags at the top, a short vocal warm-up, and full lyrics. The tool picks the genre, the instruments, and the vocal warm-up on its own, nothing has to be set manually, because all of that comes bundled with the Nana Coree profile. Adding a topic word before "nana," as in "random river nana," steers the same song toward specific imagery, in that case water and river, while keeping Nana's overall style locked in place. Any topic works this way: a place, a feeling, a character, a season.

The core commands that change format, not style

A handful of commands reshape what gets generated while keeping Nana's style intact. "Poem nana" produces a short, playful poem in Nana's storytelling voice, useful for younger audiences or as a starting point before expanding into a full song. "Lullaby nana" applies a different set of rules entirely: it slows the tempo, smooths the melody, and softens the lyrics enough to help a child fall asleep, built with neuroscience in mind. "Folk nana" pulls from a traditional folk song structure and rewrites it through Nana's lens, giving a familiar melody shape with new Caribbean imagery layered on top.

Getting a song production-ready

Once the lyrics are in good shape, two commands prepare the song for actual production. "Meta nana" wraps the lyrics in detailed performance tags built for platforms like Suno; rather than plain verse and chorus markers, it adds tags for vocal character, instrumental breaks, and dynamic shifts, all shaped to Nana's style. "Session nana" goes further, generating a full session note document that lays out the key, the tempo, and a form map showing every section of the song with bar counts and instrument notes, something you could hand directly to a producer or paste into a DAW project.

A bonus command for singers and AI voices

A phonetic respelling command, "respell nana," handles a smaller but real problem: words in the lyrics that might trip up a singer or an AI voice model. Running it converts every word into simple phonetic spelling with capitalized stress syllables, using plain English letters and no special symbols, useful for anyone recording the song themselves or feeding it into a voice-training pipeline.

Beyond Nana Coree

The whole workflow generalizes: swapping "nana" for the name of a different ghost artist shifts the genre, instrumentation, and imagery to that artist's profile while keeping the same commands, random, poem, lullaby, folk, meta, session, and respell all still apply. Typing "list" at any point surfaces every available command.

Key takeaways

• Ghost artists like Nana Coree are complete style profiles, voice, genre, instrumentation, and imagery, applied automatically to whatever command you run.
• "Random nana" generates a full original song with no setup required; adding a topic word before "nana" steers the imagery while keeping the style locked.
• "Poem nana," "lullaby nana," and "folk nana" reshape the output format, a short poem, a slowed-down sleep-friendly song, or a folk-song rewrite, without changing Nana's underlying style.
• "Meta nana" adds Suno-ready performance tags, and "session nana" generates a full session note with key, tempo, and a bar-by-bar form map for producers.
• "Respell nana" converts lyrics into phonetic spelling to help singers and AI voice models pronounce tricky words correctly.
• Swapping the ghost artist name changes the entire style while the same set of commands still works.

Who this is for

This tutorial is built for anyone starting from zero with the Lyrical Literacy tool: songwriters, educators, or parents who want an original, production-ready song without prior music experience. It's a hands-on entry point into Humanitarians AI's Lyrical Literacy program, which pairs songwriting with brain development through AI-assisted music creation.