If you’re searching for an outside-the-box gift this holiday season or you just love beautiful original music, we have a suggestion for you: an album called I Will Not Stop Singing.
Released this fall, I Will Not Stop Singing features the music of the Zomba Prison Project, comprised of guards and inmates from a maximum-security prison in Malawi, a small country in southeast Africa. The group’s first album, I Have No Everything Here, was nominated for a Grammy Award. (Perhaps you saw the Anderson Cooper–narrated feature on the group and its American producer Ian Brennan on 60 Minutes.)
Like the first album, I Will Not Stop Singing features more than a dozen original songs written and performed by both male and female inmates at the Zomba prison. In songs like “I Am Done With Evil” and “I Will Never Stop Grieving for You, My Wife,” the artists express their hopes, their sorrows, and the struggles of daily prison life, where inmates are fed just one meal per day.
Proceeds from the music go to the prisoners.
To buy the new album, I Will Not Stop Singing, you can go here. To buy both the first and second albums, go here. And to donate directly to the Zomba prisoners, go here.
You can also purchase individual songs from the new album here.
Take a listen to one of the tracks below.
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